Technical Specifications

System Requirements

The various Tractor components are supported on the following hardware and operating systems.

1) The Tractor-Engine
The central job queue

• Linux 32-bit and 64-bit, (gcc4+)
• Mac OS X, 10.5 and 10.6

2) The Tractor-Blade
The remote execution server

• All platforms supporting Python 2.5, including: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

3) The Tractor-Dashboard
The web-based user interface

• Firefox
• Safari
• Chrome
• No platform-specific plug-ins required