Infrastructure requirements

The following information contains a summary of the IBM® watsonx Code Assistant™ for Z system configurations. System requirements can vary depending on the size and purpose of your deployment.

Components CPU Memory Disk Prerequisites Link to Doc
IBM Application Discovery (AD) Dedicated Database Server

Intel XEON Dual processor with minimum of 4 cores each, 3 GHz or higher, with Turbo support.

64 GB of RAM.

Dedicated hard disk drive for the operating system, minimum 500 GB. Secondary dedicated hard disk drive for data, minimum 2 TB.

  CPU, RAM, and Storage Requirements
For all the IBM Application Discovery (AD) components

Intel XEON Dual processor with minimum of 4 cores each, 3 GHz or higher, with Turbo support.

Minimum 32 GB of RAM.

4 GB allocated Virtual Memory.

Dedicated hard disk drive for the operating system, minimum 500 GB. Secondary dedicated hard disk drive for data, minimum 2 TB.

   

For IBM Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client

Intel i5 or equivalent.

Minimum 8 GB of RAM.

20 GB allocated disk space.

   

For IBM Application Discovery (AD) Build Client

Intel i5 or equivalent.

16 GB of RAM.

20 GB allocated disk space.

   
Z Code Optimization Advice No specific requirements No specific requirements No specific requirements   Installing and configuring

Code explanation On Premises, up to 10 concurrent users

4.5 vCPU

17 GB

 

1 GPU Required (Nvidia A100, H100, or L40S*)

Setting up watsonx Code Assistant service

Code explanation On Premises, up to 20 concurrent users

13 vCPU

33 GB

 

1 GPU Required (Nvidia A100, H100, or L40S*)

 

Code explanation On Premises, up to 40 concurrent users

25.5 vCPU

33 GB

 

1 GPU Required (Nvidia A100, H100, or L40S*)

 

Refactoring Assistant

4 cores.

16 GB.

500 GB

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.
Required tools and packages
  • Podman version 4 or later podman-plugins package openssl command key tool command (from Java™ 8 Runtime Environment).
Network access to IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z® (IBM ADDI)
  • Version 6.1.2 ifix1 or later

Supported Internet browsers (used for accessing Z Z Refactoring Assistant)
  • Google Chrome (recommended) Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge.

Prerequisites

Transformation On Premises, up to 10 concurrent users

48 vCPU

224 GB

 

1 GPU Required (Nvidia A100, H100, or L40S*)

Actual resources to be consumed - 25vCPU, 100 GB)

 

Transformation On Premises, up to 20 concurrent users

48 vCPU

224 GB

 

1 GPU Required (Nvidia A100, H100, or L40S*)

Actual resources to be consumed - 48 vCPU 168 GB

 

Transformation On Premises, up to 40 concurrent users

80 vCPU

320 GB

 

1 GPU Required (Nvidia A100, H100, or L40S*)

Actual resources to be consumed -72 vCPU 211 GB

 
1: You can manually or automatically scale resources by using standard t-shirt sizes, or you can use custom sizes.
Note: * Using L40S GPU may result in slower LLM response times.
For more information on prerequisites, see Prerequisites.