IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 4.1.1

Hardware requirements for the Quick Start Edition

Before you install the Quick Start Edition, ensure that you satisfy the minimum hardware requirements for InfoSphere® Streams.
Table 1. Minimum hardware requirements for InfoSphere Streams
Component Minimum requirements Comments
System x86_64 (64-bit) InfoSphere Streams supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
IBM® Power Systems™ (64-bit) On RHEL systems that are running big endian, InfoSphere Streams supports the POWER7® and POWER8® processors.

RHEL systems that are running little endian support the POWER8 processor only.

Display 1280 x 1024 Lower resolutions are supported but not preferred for Streams Studio.
Memory 2 GB The amount of memory that is required by InfoSphere Streams is dependent on the applications that are developed and deployed.

This minimum requirement is based on the memory requirements of the Commodity Purchasing sample application and other samples that are provided with the product.

Disk space 7.5 GB, if installing the main installation package Includes disk space required for installation and development resources.
2 GB, if installing the domain host installation package or resource installation package.