Environment Requirements

Before installing the BoostIO software, check that the physical environment meets the installation requirements and the dependencies of matched versions have been installed.

Hardware Requirements

The BoostIO software is installed on compute nodes. Table 1 lists the hardware requirements for each compute node.

**Table 1** Hardware requirements
Item	Description
Server	TaiShan server
Processor	Kunpeng 920 7260
Memory size	512 GB
Memory frequency	2666 MHz
NIC	RoCE 100GE, TCP 10GE
NVMe SSD	At least one 3.6 TB or 7.68 TB SSD

Software Requirements

Before installing the BoostIO software, check that you have installed all the dependency software. Install these dependencies based on their security standards. Table 2 lists the OS and software requirements of each node in the cluster. The following software is not within the delivery scope.

**Table 2** Software requirements
Item	Description
OS	openEuler 20.03 LTS SP2
JuiceFS	1.0.3
Redis	4.0.11
ZooKeeper	3.8.1
Ceph	12.2.8
Python	3.7

Parent topic: Software Installation