Astera 8 - System Requirements

Client Application Processor	Dual Core or greater (recommended); 2.0 GHz or greater
Server Application Processor	Quad Core or greater (recommended)
Repository Database	MS SQL Server 2008R2 or newer, or PostgreSQL 9.x or newer for hosting repository database
Operating System - Client	Windows 10 (recommended)
Operating System - Server	Windows: Windows 10 or Windows Server 2012 or newer
	Linux: Linux-like OS with support for .NET Core 3.0 runtime or newer. For the current list of supported Linux distributions, visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/dependencies?tabs=netcore31&pivots=os-linux
Memory	Client: 4GB or greater (recommended)
	Server: 8GB or greater (recommended); 32GB or greater for heavy data processing
Hard Disk Space	Client: 300 MB – (if .NET Framework is pre-installed)
	Server: 700 MB – (if .NET Framework is pre-installed)
	Additional 300 MB if .NET Framework is not installed
Other	Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 for the client, .NET Core Runtime 3.0 for the server

Note: The overall speed and performance of the application depend on the configuration of your machine. More memory and higher processing speed on the system will result in faster performance, especially when transferring large amounts of data as the application takes advantage of the multicore hardware to parallelize operations.