Inquiry on System Requirements for Running OpenOA

[Myprojectjoy]

Dear OpenOA Team,

Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the entire team for their incredible work on developing OpenOA.

I am interested in utilizing OpenOA for my research and would like to know the system requirements needed to run the software efficiently. Could you please provide detailed information on the recommended hardware and software specifications?

Thank you once again for your outstanding contributions to the field. I look forward to your response.

[RHammond2]

Hi @Myprojectjoy, thanks for the interest and gratitude!

This software should work on any modern computer, though because the analysis methods, particularly when calculating uncertainty can be resource intensive, we'd recommend a computer with moderate processing capacity. I currently have an M1 Macbook Pro for work, and the time it takes me to run the examples is displayed in the current files as I last reran them all. This is to say something like a Chromebook, well spec'd tablet, or very basic laptop would be inappropriate for the task, but you don't also need a whole HPC or even top of the line macbook to work with the code itself.

On that note, any OS will work, and our CI pipeline runs across the latest windows, mac, and ubuntu setups.

Let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions.