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Public release repository for STochastic Engine of Pathway Simulation (STEPS)
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Can we install STEPS on a local machine (Desktop computer) ? #16

Closed WeiliangChenOIST closed 5 years ago

WeiliangChenOIST commented 5 years ago

Hi @mesimulator, I create a new issue for you and will answer your question here.

Dear STEPS Support,

I am just starting to use STEPS for my research. I question is : Can we install STEPS on a local machine (Desktop computer) ? I mean will it take a lot of space / slow down my desktop ?

In that case, I should install it on computing clusters ?

Please let me know your suggestions on this.

Thanks in anticipation,

Yes, you can install and use STEPS on a desktop. In fact, this is our recommendation for new users. The installation itself shouldn't take much of time and storage. The CPU/memory/storage consumption of the simulation depends on your model, but a desktop should be able to handle common pathway models. The parallel solver is mainly designed for modeling large scale spatial systems with a great number of tetrahedrons (~10e6 and above). For that, you will need to deploy STEPS on a cluster.

WeiliangChenOIST commented 5 years ago

By the way, if you want to quickly try STEPS without worrying all the package dependencies, we have a prebuilt Docker image available, please check https://github.com/CNS-OIST/STEPS_Docker for details.

mesimulator commented 5 years ago

Thanks for your replies.

-Shantanu

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By the way, if you want to quickly try STEPS without worrying all the package dependencies, we have a prebuilt Docker image available, please check https://github.com/CNS-OIST/STEPS_Docker for details.

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