Altus Hardware Requirements
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Tony Dimsdale
Scope
Altus is delivered as a Docker container. The Docker host (Docker Engine) can be run either on a bare metal server or inside of a virtual machine (when running in the cloud, Docker is always run inside a cloud-hosted VM).
When Docker is run inside of a VM, there are performance requirements on the virtualization platform in order not to introduce latencies and throughput bottlenecks underneath Docker, which would affect the real-time audio.
Hardware Requirements
- Minimum Requirements for Docker Deployment
- Server-class multi-core CPU(s), 2.0Ghz minimum
- Memory: 1GB of RAM per each Altus, minimum
- Docker hosting platform: Docker Engine on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04) server.
- Number of server CPU cores required for Altus instances with 24 fader channels
- For up to 3 Altus instances in the server: one reserved core for each Altus, plus one core system base.
- For 3 up to 8 Altus instances in the server: one reserved core for each, plus 2 system cores.
- For more than 8 Altus instances in the server: one reserved core for each, plus 3 system base cores.
- For smaller Altus instances with up to 12 faders, two Altus instances can be run per each reserved core.
- For up to 6 small Altus instances: one reserved core for each two small Altus, plus one core system base.
- For 8 up to 16 small Altus instances: one reserved core for each two small Altus, plus 2 cores system base
- For more than 16 small instances in the server: one reserved core for each two Altus, plus 3 cores system base
If Virtualization is used, a type 1 Virtualization host capable of: Exclusive allocation (i.e., pinning) of CPU cores to virtual machines & Allocation of CPU resources to network I/O traffic
Note: The number of server CPU cores required is the same as listed above in the Docker Deployment section.
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