Single User (One Machine)

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Type	Requirement	Notes
Processor	1.8 GHz, minimum dual core
Physical Memory	2 GB RAM
Hard Drive Storage	HDD with at least 20 GB free space	For CA workspaces, approximately 60x size in bytes of the application source code modeled in CA (for example, 100 MB source = 6 GB).

With this minimum hardware configuration you can run COBOL Analyzer and analyze sources.

Suggested Upgrades

The analysis time increases when the number of analyzed sources rises. To reduce the analysis time Micro Focus recommends that you use one of the following upgrades:

A high speed Solid State Drive (SSD) for storing database tables. This can be added as an external drive; however USB 3.0 or eSATA must be used. This will improve the verification performance by 25% over the minimum configuration.
Use a quad core processor such as Intel Core i7 2670QM or any other quad core QE/QM processor. This improves the verification performance by 50% over the minimum system configuration.
Note: You must run additional Queue Processors to benefit from the additional cores. See Choosing the Optimal Number Of Queue Processors for more information.

Note: Improved verification performance means that if the project verification takes 100 minutes, and you get 33% performance improvement, the verification time is reduced to 67 minutes.

Recommended Configuration 1

This configuration gives 33% improved verification performance. The changes from the minimum configuration are marked in bold:

Type	Requirement	Notes
Processor	2.0 GHz, 2 cores
Physical Memory	4 GB
Hard Disk Drive	SSD with at least 20 GB free space	For CA workspaces, approximately 60x size in bytes of the application source code modeled in CA (for example, 100 MB source = 6 GB).

Recommended Configuration 2

Recommended configuration 2 gives 50% improved performance of verification. The changes from the minimum configuration are marked in bold:

Type	Requirement	Notes
Processor	2.0 GHz, 4 cores
Physical Memory	4 GB
Hard Disk Drive	Any type with at least 20 GB free space	For CA workspaces, approximately 60x size in bytes of the application source code modeled in CA (for example, 100 MB source = 6 GB).

Performance Configuration

The performance configuration is a combination of all upgrades. It gives 66% improved verification performance. The changes from the minimum configuration are marked in bold:

Type	Requirement	Notes
Processor	2.0 GHz, 4 cores
Physical Memory	4 GB
Hard Disk Drive	SSD with at least 20 GB free space	For CA workspaces, approximately 60x size in bytes of the application source code modeled in CA (for example, 100 MB source = 6 GB).