System Requirements

Intel® CPU with 6 cores, 3.0 GHz clock frequency (e.g. Intel® Core® i5-12500 CPU)

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 670 or dedicated graphic card NVIDIA® 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® RTX A4000 16 GB)

Hard drive
1 x 512 GB SSD NVMe and 1 x 8 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® 10 x64 Professional or Enterprise, no special customer adapted versions. Windows® 10 version must be (at least) 1607 (build 14393), e.g. Windows® 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016.

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.

Recommendation: Windows® 10 resp. Windows® 11 should 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/release-information
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/windows11-release-information

The following toolkits and functions require (at least) Windows 10 version 1809 (build 17763), e.g. Windows® 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019:

• ZEN Deconvolution Toolkit fallback solution: run on CPU.
• ZEN Toolkit 2D can use CPU and GPU for semantic segmentation and CPU for instance segmentation. For older Windows versions instance segmentation cannot be used. For semantic segmentation only CPU is supported.
• ZEN Toolkit Bio Applications can use CPU and GPU for semantic segmentation and CPU for instance segmentation. For older Windows versions instance segmentation cannot be used. For semantic segmentation only CPU is supported.
• Hamamatsu Camera driver. No fallback solution, i.e. Hamamatsu cameras will not work.

The following toolkits and functions require (at least) Microsoft® Windows® 10 version 21H2 (build 19044), e.g. Windows® 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021:

• ZEN Toolkit 2D can use CPU and GPU for instance segmentation trained with arivis Cloud.
• ZEN Toolkit Bio Applications can use CPU and GPU for instance segmentation trained with arivis Cloud.

For more information on the compatibility of Machine Learning and AI Features, see Compatibility of Windows Versions to Machine Learning and AI Features.

Processing functions that run on the GPU require NVIDIA driver version 566.03 or higher. Drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards in our workstations should also be downloaded from hp website (not from NVIDIA) e.g. for hp Z8 G5 workstation: https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/swdetails/hp-z8-fury-g5-workstation-desktop-pc/2101236624/swItemId/vc-339200-1

HP Z240 Workstation or newer

HP Z6 G4 Workstation or newer

Intel® Core™ i5-6500

Intel® Xeon® Gold 6234

Intel® Xeon® Gold 6134

(CPU with 8 cores for ZSTD compression)

32 GB RAM

64 GB RAM

NVIDIA Quadro P4000 (highly recommended with Airyscan 2 Multiplex Mode)

HP Z2 G9 Workstation

HP Z8 G5 Workstation

Intel® Core™ i5-12500

Intel® Xeon® W5-3425

64 GB RAM

128 GB RAM

NVIDIA® T1000

NVIDIA® RTX™ A4000

HP Z8 G5 Workstation

HP Z8 G5 Workstation

Intel® Xeon® W5-3425

Intel® Xeon® W5-3425

64 GB RAM

128 GB RAM

NVIDIA® RTX A1000 8GB

NVIDIA® RTX™ A5000 (for Lightfield 4D)

NVIDIA® RTX™ A4000

NVIDIA® RTX™ A5000 (for Lightfield 4D)