System Requirements
ZEISS Microscopy Software
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Minimum System Requirements |
Recommended System Requirements |
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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) |
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16 GB RAM |
64 GB RAM |
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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) |
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Hard drive |
Hard drive |
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2 x USB 2.0 and 2 x USB 3.0 |
4 x USB 2.0 and 2 x USB 3.0 |
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Monitor: 24" TFT display, vertical resolution 1200 pixels at least |
Monitor: 27" TFT display, vertical resolution 1440 pixels at least |
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PCIe interface: 2 available PCI Express x8 Gen2 slots for camera interface cards |
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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. Windows N editions do not support basic media functionality, so that they cannot be used for the ZEN 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 |
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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.
See also
LSM 900
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Without Airyscan 2 |
With Airyscan 2 |
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HP Z240 Workstation or newer |
HP Z6 G4 Workstation or newer |
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Intel® Core™ i5-6500 |
Intel® Xeon® Gold 6234 Intel® Xeon® Gold 6134 (CPU with 8 cores for ZSTD compression) |
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32 GB RAM |
64 GB RAM |
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NVIDIA Quadro P4000 (highly recommended with Airyscan 2 Multiplex Mode) |
LSM 910
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Without Airyscan 2 |
With Airyscan 2 |
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HP Z2 G9 Workstation or newer |
HP Z8 G5 Workstation |
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Intel® Core™ i5-12500 |
Intel® Xeon® W5-3425 |
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64 GB RAM |
128 GB RAM |
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NVIDIA® T1000 |
NVIDIA® RTX™ A4000 |
LSM 990
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Without Airyscan 2 |
With Airyscan 2 |
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HP Z8 G5 Workstation or newer |
HP Z8 G5 Workstation |
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Intel® Xeon® W5-3425 |
Intel® Xeon® W5-3425 |
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64 GB RAM |
128 GB RAM |
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NVIDIA® RTX A1000 8GB NVIDIA® RTX™ A5000 (for Lightfield 4D) |
NVIDIA® RTX™ A4000 NVIDIA® RTX™ A5000 (for Lightfield 4D) |