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We are preparing hardware specs for installing a new PAW server. I wonder how much RAM would it be sufficient based on daily usage? We have around 100 users and will the RAM increase a lot if more and more users are on it through PAX or web? Thanks.
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I guess it would help if we knew how much memory your current model runs at?
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16GB of RAM / 8 cores is recommended. For 100 users that should be fine.

Most of the heavy lifting is done by TM1 so RAM usage is pretty stable.
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dr.nybble wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2017 12:47 pm 16GB of RAM / 8 cores is recommended. For 100 users that should be fine.

Most of the heavy lifting is done by TM1 so RAM usage is pretty stable.
That's a very glib statement. Some rule heavy models with less users can take a crap load more memory than 16GB. I have 16GB in my desktop at home for gaming. In fact 16GB is slowly becoming the desktop standard. This is why I asked for current memory usage which is a better indicator for future memory usage.
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I am not talking about TM1 memory usage but Planning Analytics Workspace.
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Yep my bad
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Thanks, guys, for the advice.
I have googled around as well and yes, we will go for 32GB and 8 cores for PAW server. :D
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