This project will be built and tested on a <s>Windows 7 64-bit</s> Fedora 20 operating system (as opposed to Fedora[http://www.r-tutor.com/gpu-computing/cuda-installation/cuda6.5-fc20 tutorial], due remember to complications with display [http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/fedora-16-nvidia-drivers and CUDA-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/#troubleshooting blacklist nouveau in your grub config].) with an Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell CPU (overclocked to 4.9 GHz) and an Nvidia GTX 480 GPU (overclocked to 830/924/1660 MHz) manufactured by Zotac with 1.5 GB of VRAM.