OLEADA can be installed on Sun workstations running Solaris or SunOS operating systems. If on a TCP/IP network, a single workstation can be a server for other X-Window client workstations on the network. These clients can be PC's or MacIntosh machines provided they have an X-Window software client package such as eXceed or Xoftware.
At NMSU, OLEADA is served over the campus network from a Sun UltraSPARC 1. This machine is a model 140 running at 143MHz with a 64-bit SPARC processor, 160MB Ram, and a 3GB internal Fast SCSI-2 disk. Our network is a category 5 unshielded twisted pair running 10Mb/s ethernet.
Users can access OLEADA by telnet to the server and displaying back to their client workstations. The minimum client workstation is a 486 PC, running at 66MHz, with 8MB Ram, running Windows 3.1 and Xoftware X-Window software client package.
OLEADA uses about 120MB of disk storage on the server, including fonts, but excluding corpus data and other on-line resources, (e.g. dictionaries). We have about 9 GB of multilingual corpus data from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). Disk space is also needed on the server for user accounts.
CRL does have an alpha version of OLEADA that will runs on Pentium machines running the LINUX OS. This is a low-cost alternative for the network server.