Hardware specification for Server
For a native installation:
Suitable server hardware, dedicated to SmartVis Face Server running Ubuntu 16.04.
Modern Intel i7 3.6 GHz with minimum 4 physical Cores (or equivalent)
CPU benchmark recommended minimum 10,000 (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/)
Supports AVx2 instruction set (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#CPUs_with_AVX2)
Minimum 32 GBytes RAM
Video Card: Nvidia with Kepler, Maxwell or Pascal architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA)
Minimum 6GB VRAM
Minimum of 1280 cores, e.g.GeForce GTX 1060 or above.
512 GByte SSD
1 Terrabyte HDD (for back-ups)
If installing a virtual image:
The SmartVis Face Engine is supplied as a Virtualbox VDI image, ready to be installed into your virtualised environment. In the manual we document how to set-up an instance using Virtualbox. However, it is possible to import VDI images into other Virtual Machine environments such as VMWare and KVM.
When creating the instance of the SmartVis Face appliance on your host you will need the following spare compute capacity to designate to the appliance:
A minimum of 4 cores with a minimum speed of 2.2GHz
8 Gigabytes of RAM
128 Gigabytes of storage
Note, these are the minimum requirements. Depending on the level of usage it may be desirable to allocate more resource to your instance. In particular, increasing the number of cores can significantly increase the computation speed. We recommend a base operating system of Ubuntu 16.04 x64 LTS as the host operating system.