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# Prerequisites

## Supported machines and OS
In order to run RiaB, we should prepare at least a single machine which has the below minimum requirements.

* CloudLab Wisconsin and Utah clusters
  * CPU: Intel CPU and Haswell microarchitecture or beyond; at least 4 cores
  * OS: Ubuntu 18.04 (e.g., OnePC-Ubuntu18.04 profile in CloudLab)
  * RAM: At least 16GB
  * Storage: At least 50GB (recommendation: 100GB)
* Any baremetal server, VM, or public cloud VM (e.g., Amazon AWS, MS Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
  * CPU: Intel CPU and Haswell microarchitecture or beyond; at least 4 cores
  * OS: Ubuntu 18.04 (under test with Ubuntu 20.04)
  * RAM: At least 16GB
  * Storage: At least 50GB (recommendation: 100GB)