# Help with Sui Node

**URL:** <https://forums.sui.io/t/help-with-sui-node/4304>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [January 31, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/help-with-sui-node/4304 "2023-01-31T11:00:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![cyberjulian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@cyberjulian](https://forums.sui.io/u/cyberjulian)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/help-with-sui-node/4304/1 "2023-01-31T11:00:25Z")

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Hi all, I wanted to run up the SUI node. And I have a couple of questions:

1. Is it necessary to have $SUI to run a node?
2. Are there any rewards for running a node?
3. How often do updates come out?
4. What server specs can you recommend, or will those in the documentation be enough?

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**Author:** ![Shourya175](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sui/user_avatar/forums.sui.io/shourya175/32/141_2.png) [@Shourya175](https://forums.sui.io/u/Shourya175)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.sui.io/t/help-with-sui-node/4304/2 "2023-02-19T21:40:20Z")

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Heyyyyy 😀 happy to see your contribution in sui network and your enthusiam of running node  
1- you can run node if you want but as you mr question its not neccesary to run a sui node  
2-no there till now sui had not announced reward for node runners  
3-you can check your discord sui node operator part in sui discord .  
4- **Suggested minimum hardware to run a Sui Full node:**

- CPUs: 10 core.
- RAM: 32 GB.
- Storage (SSD): 1 TB.  
Hope this helps you 😄