Documentation/4.0/SlicerApplication/HardwareConfiguration

Introduction

3D Slicer is a cross platform desktop application for

• image visualization and
• image processing
• 3D Slicer is a free, open source package available as an executable for multiple operating systems (Windows, MAC, Linux).

• Computers running 3d Slicer need enough memory and graphics capabilities to hold the original data and the processing results in local memory.

Recommended Hardware Configuration

• Memory: more than 4GB (8 or more are recommended).
• Display: a minimum resolution of 1024 by 768 (1280 by 1024 or better is recommended).
• Dedicated graphics hardware and memory (1GB is recommended).
• Many compuations in Slicer are multi-threaded and will benefit from the presence of multiple cores/CPUs.
• Interface device: a three button mouse with scroll wheel is recommended. For other devices, see here for "how to".

Recommended OS versions

• Windows 7 64bit
• Mac OS X Lion
• Linux: recent versions of popular distributions should work. Ubuntu and Fedora are the most widely used distribution among the developers.