Memory & Space Requirements

The latest versions of Understand takes about 600MB-1.1Gb of installation space, depending on the OS.

We recommend 1GB of RAM per Million lines of code, it will run on less, but it is much slower. The more memory the better.


Supported Operating Systems

  • Windows x64 (Windows 10.1809 and later), 
  • Linux 64bit (CentOS and RHEL 8.6 (4.18.0-372.26.1 or newer), Ubuntu 22.04, and later)
  • Mac OS (Monterey 12 and later) Intel and Apple Silicon are both supported


Understand AI Requirements

Understand 7.1 ships with a built in LLM. Understand will function without the AI component, but if you wish to utilize Understand's AI integration, you will need the following:


x86 with dedicated graphics hardware

AMD Ryzen 3 5300G or Intel Core i5-11400 ( or better in single-threaded benchmarks )

6 GiB free VRAM ( 8 GiB free recommended )

x86 without graphics hardware

AMD EPYC 9184X or Intel Core i9-13900F (or better in multi-threaded tensor benchmarks)

ARM

Apple M1 or better

6 GiB free VRAM ( 8 GiB free recommended )


Free RAM: 6 GiB free

Free disk space: 3 GiB free


Additional information on Understand's AI integration can be found here.


Use the older builds of Understand if you need a version to run on an older operating system:


Build 1206 and older will run on Windows x64 ( Windows 10.1809 and later ), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 8.4, Ubuntu 20.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( Big Sur 11 and later ) Intel and Apple Silicon are both supported.


Build 1139 and older will run on Windows x64 ( Windows 10 and later), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 8.4, Ubuntu 20.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( Mohave and later ).


Build 1096 and older will run on Windows x64 ( Windows 7 and later, Windows Server 2016), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 7.6, Ubuntu 18.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( High Sierra and later ).


Build 1077 and older will run on Windows x64 and x86 ( Windows 7 and later ), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 7.4, Ubuntu 16.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( Sierra and later ).