Operating system
Taverna has been successfully tested on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X (10.4 and higher) and various versions of Linux.
Memory
In order to run Taverna, it is a good idea for your machine to have at least 1GB of RAM. Taverna will run with less memory, but its performance may be affected.
Java
Taverna will run on any machine that has Java 1.5 or higher installed. You can download Java from Sun Microsystems.
Note that some operating systems, such as Ubuntu, come bundled with the GNU GCJ version of Java that cannot be used to run Taverna due to some bugs in GCJ. In order to run Taverna on such systems, we suggest you get Java from Sun.
To check which version of Java you are using, start a terminal and run:
java –version
GraphViz
Taverna Workbench uses the GraphViz program dot to draw the workflow diagrams.
The Workbench includes the Windows version of dot, so no further installation is required for Windows users.
Taverna for Mac OS X is released as a disc image incorporating the Graphviz.app – this should work on all up to date Apple hardware and requires no additional action from users.
On Linux systems, you need to install the GraphViz package yourself and point Taverna to the dot executable. To do so, start up Taverna and go to Preferences, select preferences for “Workbench”, and point to the dot file you have previously installed.
GraphViz may be downloaded free of charge.
