Requirements

In this chapter:

System Requirements for Basic Configuration

To calculate the FindFace host(s) characteristics, use the requirements provided below.

Tip

Be sure to learn about the FindFace architecture first.

Important

If the video resolution is more than 1280x720px, it is strongly recommended to use the GPU-accelerated package findface-video-worker-gpu.

Important

On AMD CPU servers, the full functionality of the CPU-accelerated findface-extraction-api service is not guaranteed. Use the GPU-accelerated service findface-extraction-api-gpu along with the GPU-version of neural networks instead.

Note

In the case of a high-load system (~> 15 events per second), we recommend using an SSD.

Minimum

Recommended

CPU

Intel Core i5 CPU with 4+ physical cores 3+ GHz. AVX2 support

Intel Xeon Silver/Gold with 6+ physical cores

The own needs of FindFace require 2 cores HT > 2.5 GHz. The characteristics also depend on the number of video files in process. A single video file 720p@25FPS requires 2 cores >2.5 GHz. AVX2 support.

GPU (optional)

NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1080Ti+ with 11+ GB RAM

Supported devices: NVIDIA, Pascal architecture and above.

Note: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards are currently not supported.

RAM

10 Gb

16+ Gb

The own needs of FindFace require 8 Gb. The RAM consumption also depends on the number of video files in process. A single video file 720p@25FPS requires 2 GB RAM.

HDD (SSD for best performance)

16 Gb

16+ Gb

The own needs of the operating system and FindFace require 15 GB. The total volume is subject to the required depth of the event archive in the database and in the log, at the rate of 1.5 Mb per 1 event.

Operating system

Ubuntu from 18 to 22, x64 only, RHEL / CentOS 7, Debian 11.

Note

You can also use an Intel-based VM if there is AVX2 support, and eight physical cores are allocated exclusively to the VM.

Tip

For more accurate hardware selection, contact our support team by support@ntechlab.com.

Required Administrator Skills

A FindFace Multi administrator must know and understand OS, on which the product instance is deployed, at the level of an advanced user.

Video File Formats

FindFace Multi supports a wide variety of file formats depending on the acceleration type, CPU or GPU.

Both CPU- and GPU-accelerated instances support all FFmpeg codecs. In addition to that, the following codecs are supported:

  • CPU-based acceleration: FLV (both as a codec and as a container), H263, H264, H265, MJPEG, VP8, VP9, MPEG1VIDEO, MPEG2VIDEO, MSMPEG4v2, MSMPEG4v3.

  • GPU-based acceleration: MJPEG, H264, H265, VP9, and others, depending on the list of codecs supported by the used video card. Apart from that, for instances with video-worker-gpu, you can expand the number of supported codecs by enabling video decoding on the CPU, which is not available by default.

To enable video decoding on the CPU for GPU-based acceleration, do the following:

  1. Open the /opt/findface-multi/configs/findface-video-worker/findface-video-worker.yaml file.

    sudo vi /opt/findface-multi/configs/findface-video-worker/findface-video-worker.yaml

  2. Set cpu: true in the video_decoder section.

    ...
video_decoder:
  cpu: true
...

  3. Restart findface-multi-findface-video-worker-1 container.

    sudo docker container restart findface-multi-findface-video-worker-1