Abaqus 6.9-EF Supported Platforms & Products

• Supported Platforms and Products for maintenance releases are the same as Abaqus 6.9-EF1.
• Data published before the final release are preliminary and may not be consistent with the final release.
• Availability dates are listed below.

Notes:

• Abaqus Interactive and Analysis products use 64-bit addressing, unless noted otherwise.
• Abaqus/Standard uses double floating point precision; Abaqus/Explicit offers both single and double floating point precision. Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer use single floating point precision.
• MPI based parallel execution of Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit is available on all supported platforms except Windows/x86-32, which supports thread based shared memory parallel execution.
• See Support for Distributed Memory Parallel Analyses on Windows Platforms for more information about DMP on Windows/x86-64

1. 3Dconnexion SpaceBall motion controllers are supported and can be used for view manipulation in Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer.
2. Includes Abaqus/Foundation as well as Abaqus/Aqua and Abaqus/Design.
3. Includes Intel Pentium and Xeon, and AMD Athlon processors and uses 32-bit memory addressing.
4. Includes AMD Opteron and Intel EM64T processors.
5. GLX/OpenGL required
6. Abaqus 6.9-EF will only be available on a limited distribution basis on Linux/x86-32 and HP-UX/Itanium platforms, signaling that support for this platform is expected to be discontinued in a subsequent release. These platforms will not be available on the Abaqus distribution media, but will be downloadable on request through your local SIMULIA support office. See SIMULIA Policy on Limited Distribution Software for more details on limited distribution status.
7. Iterative Solver is not supported on this platform
8. The Abaqus License Server is also supported on the Solaris/UltraSPARC platform. For information about upgrading the Abaqus FLEXnet License Manager and to download the License Server for this platform, see Upgrading the Simulia FLEXnet License Manager.
9. Abaqus License server availability on the Linux/x86-32 platforms is expected to be discontinued for releases following Abaqus 6.9-EF.