Minimum System Requirements

Recommended System Requirements

Intel® CPU with 6 Performance-cores, 3.5 GHz Performance-core base frequency, e.g. Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 Processor 245

Intel® Xeon® CPU with 12 cores, 3.2 GHz clock frequency (e.g. Intel® Xeon® W5-3425)

16 GB RAM

64 GB RAM

Graphics adapter with support for resolutions of at least 1920 x 1200, 32 Bit true color, DirectX® 12.0 or higher (e.g. integrated Intel® UHD Graphics or dedicated graphic card NVIDIA® with CUDA Compute Capability ≥ 7.5 (Turing or newer), e.g. RTX A1000 8GB)

Graphics adapter with support for resolutions of 3840 x 2160 Pixel (“4K”), 32 Bit true color, DirectX® 12.0 (or higher), OpenGL® 4.5 (or higher) (e.g. dedicated graphic card NVIDIA® with CUDA Compute Capability ≥ 7.5 (Turing or newer), e.g. RTX PRO 4000 24 GB)

Hard drive
1 x 1 TB SSD NVMe and 1 x 12 TB HDD SATA 6Gb/s

Hard drive
1 x 2 TB SSD NVMe and 2 x 12 TB HDD SATA 6Gb/s (configured as 12 TB RAID 1)

2 x USB 2.0 and 2 x USB 3.0

4 x USB 2.0 and 2 x USB 3.0

Monitor: 24" TFT display, vertical resolution 1200 pixels at least

Monitor: 27" TFT display, vertical resolution 1440 pixels at least

PCIe interface: 2 available PCI Express x8 Gen2 slots for camera interface cards

Microsoft® Windows® 11 x64 Professional or Enterprise, no special customer adapted versions. Windows® 11 version must be (at least) 24H2 (build 26100), e.g. Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024.

Requirement: Windows® 11 must be updated to the latest build version before installing ZEN core.

Windows N editions do not support basic media functionality, so that they cannot be used for the ZEN core application.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/windows11-release-information

Processing functions that run on the GPU require NVIDIA driver version 573.53 or higher. Drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards in our workstations should also be downloaded from hp website (not from NVIDIA) e.g. https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp161001-161500/sp161478.exe

The user must be logged on with at least user privileges. For the software installation procedure, local administrator rights are required.

For software resp. system operation, the user must be logged on with at least user privileges. For the software installation procedure, the user must be logged on with an account owning local administrator rights.

For specific hardware requirements of microscope systems or software modules please refer to the corresponding system or module description.