Hardware requirements - SCANOSS documentation

Hardware requirements depend on which Knowledge Base you install. During setup, the installer asks you to choose the full SCANOSS KB or the Test KB. The Test KB is for non-production testing only and needs much less storage. Supported operating systems are Debian 11, Debian 12, and CentOS.

Full Knowledge Base requirements

Component	Minimum	Recommended
CPU	8-core x64, 3.5 GHz	32-core x64, 3.6 GHz
RAM	32 GB	128 GB
HDD	25.0TB SSD (NVMe preferred)	27.0TB SSD (NVMe preferred)

Test Knowledge Base requirements

Component	Minimum	Recommended
CPU	8-core x64, 3.5 GHz	32-core x64, 3.6 GHz
RAM	16 GB	32 GB
HDD	700 GB SSD (NVMe preferred)	1 TB SSD (NVMe preferred)