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System Requirements for Abaqus 6.9 Products

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Four tables presented in the window below provide system requirements for each Abaqus platform.

  • General Requirements are minimum requirements applicable for all Abaqus products and features.
  • Additional Requirements are extra requirements needed for specific Abaqus products and features.
  • Requirements to View Online Documentation
  • Other Platform Notes

    More detailed explanations of the table contents and terminology are provided after the tables.

Windows/ x86-32

General Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform

Processor

X86-32 1

OS Level

•  Windows XP Professional SP2
•  Windows XP Professional SP3
•  Windows Server 2003
•  Windows Vista 2
•  All3

Notes:
1 The minimum processor required is equivalent to Intel Pentium 4 or AMD processors supporting SSE2 instruction set.
2 Although some Vista editions have not undergone formal qualification testing, Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate editions are all considered compatible with Abaqus 6.9 and are supported. See the Test Configurations web page for tested Vista editions.
3 Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 runtime libraries are required. See Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Requirements for Windows for more information

Additional Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer

Graphics

Abaqus 6.9 Graphics Devices

Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++)

C++ Compiler

•  Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 4
•  Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 5

User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines)

Fortran Compiler 6

•  Intel Visual Fortran 9.1
•  Intel Visual Fortran 10.1

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based parallel execution

Library

•   MPI not supported on this platform use thread based parallel execution.

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution

Interconnect

•   DMP is unavailable on this platform. Use thread based parallel execution.

FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI

Partner Product

•   MpCCI version 3.1.0 7

Installation

Distribution Media

•   DVD-ROM 8

Notes:
4 Visual C++ 2005 is also known as Visual C++ 8.0
5 Visual C++ 2008 is also known as Visual C++ 9.0
6 Intel Visual Fortran may require additional software pre-requisites. See the Intel Visual Fortran release notes and Intel Visual Fortran Pre-requisites for more information.
7 Fraunhofer SCAI
8 See DVD Media Announcement for information about the transition from CD to DVD media

 


Requirements to View Online Documentation

Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus HTML documentation

Internet Browser 9

•   Internet Explorer 6.0
•   Mozilla 1.2
•   Firefox 1.0.1

Abaqus PDF documentation

PDF Viewer

•  Adobe Reader 6.0 10

Notes:
9 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.
10 Later versions of these PDF Readers are expected to offer acceptable performance.


Other Platform Notes

Feature

Requirement

Specification

All supported products

Maximum memory accessible

•  3 GB

Windows/ x86-64

General Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform

Processor

X86-64 1

OS Level

•  All 2
•  Windows Vista
•  Windows XP 64
•  Windows Server 2003 64-bit
•  Windows Server 2008 3

Notes:
1 The Windows/x86-64 release of Abaqus requires Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x64) which must be installed prior to running Abaqus. Information about this downloadable package is available from the Microsoft.
2 Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 runtime libraries are required. Both 32-bit & 64-bit runtime libraries are required to perform some translator functions.
3 For installation issues, see Installation of Abaqus on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition. For multiple CPUs in user subroutines, see this defect report.

Additional Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer

Graphics

Abaqus 6.9 Graphics Devices

Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++)

C++ Compiler

•  Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 4
•  Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 5

User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines)

Fortran Compiler

•  Intel Visual Fortran 9.1 6
•  Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 6

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based parallel execution

Library

•  Windows HPC Server 2008
•   Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition with Microsoft HPC Pack 2008

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution

Interconnect

1000 Mbps Ethernet 7

FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI

Partner Product

MpCCI version 3.1.0 8

Installation

Distribution Media

DVD-ROM 9

Notes:
4 Visual C++ 2005 is also known as Visual C++ 8.0
5 Visual C++ 2008 is also known as Visual C++ 9.0
6 Intel Visual Fortran may require additional software pre-requisites. See the Intel Visual Fortran release notes and Intel Visual Fortran Pre-requisites for more information.
7 See Support for Distributed Memory Parallel Analyses on Windows Platforms for more information on availability of DMP on Windows/X86-64
8 Fraunhofer SCAI
9 See DVD Media Announcement for information about the transition from CD to DVD media

 


Requirements to View Online Documentation

Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus HTML documentation

Internet Browser 10

•  Internet Explorer 6.0
•  Mozilla 1.2
•  Firefox 1.0.1

Abaqus PDF documentation

PDF Viewer

•  Adobe Reader 6.0 11

Notes:
10 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.
11 Later versions of these PDF Readers are expected to offer acceptable performance.


Other Platform Notes

Feature

Requirement

Specification

All supported products

Maximum memory accessible

•  This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB

Linux/ x86-32

General Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform

Processor

X86-32 1

OS Level

•  SuSE Linux Enterprise 9
•  SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 2
•  SuSE 10.1
•  SuSE 10.2
•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 3
•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 3 

Notes:
1 The minimum processor required is equivalent to Intel Pentium 4 or AMD processors supporting SSE2 instruction set.
2 SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 includes Server (SLES) and Desktop (SLED) versions.
3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux include ES, AS, and WS versions.

Additional Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer

Graphics

Abaqus 6.9 Graphics Devices

Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++) 

C++ Compiler 

•  Intel C++ 9.1
•  Intel C++ 10.1 

User Subroutines and building postprocessing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) 

Fortran Compiler 

•  Intel Visual Fortran 9.1
•  Intel Fortran 10.14 

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI based parallel execution 

Library 

•  HP-MPI 2.2.5.1 5 

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution 

Interconnect 

•  1000 Mbps Ethernet 

FSI Co-simuliation using MpCCI 

Partner Product 

•  MpCCI version 3.1.0 6 

Installation 

Distribution Media 

•  FTP 7 

Notes:
4 See Using the Intel 10/11 Compiler for Linux with Abaqus to address a new dependency introduced when using Intel Version 10.x compilers with Abaqus 6.9 on Linux/x86-64 systems.
5 Distributed with the FTP download of Abaqus.
6 Fraunhofer SCAI
7 Abaqus 6.9 will only be available on a limited distribution basis on Linux/x86-32 signaling that support for this platform is expected to be discontinued in a subsequent release. Linux/x86-32 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.
 

 


Requirements to View Online Documentation

Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus HTML documentation

Internet Browser 

•  Mozilla 1.2
•  Firefox 1.0.1 7 

Abaqus PDF documentation 

PDF Viewer 

•  Adobe Reader 6.0 8

Notes:
7 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.
8 Later versions of these PDF Readers are expected to offer acceptable performance.


Other Platform Notes

Feature

Requirement

Specification

All supported products

Maximum memory accessible

3 GB

Linux/ x86-64

General Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform

Processor

• X86-64 1

OS Level

• SuSE Linux Enterprise 9
• SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 2
• SuSE 10.1
• SuSE 10.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 3

Notes:
1 Supports both AMD Opteron and Intel EM64T processors.
2 SuSe Linux Enterprise 10 includes Server (SLES) and Desktop (SLED) versions.
3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux include ES, AS, and WS versions.

Additional Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer

Graphics

Abaqus 6.9 Graphics Devices

Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++) 

C++ Compiler 

•  Intel C++ 9.1
•  Intel C++ 10.1 

User Subroutines and building postprocessing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) 

Fortran Compiler 

•  Intel Fortran 9.1
•  Intel Fortran 10.14 

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI based parallel execution 

Library 

•  HP MPI 2.2.5 5 

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution 

Interconnect 

•  Voltaire Infiniband
•  1000 Mbps Ethernet
•  Miracom Myrinet MX
•  Qlogic InfiniPath
•  Qlogic Silverstorm 

FSI Co-simuliation using MpCCI 

Partner Product 

•  MpCCI version 3.1.0 6

Installation 

Distribution Media 

•  DVD-ROM 7

Notes:
4 See Using the Intel 10/11 Compiler for Linux with Abaqus to address a new dependency introduced when using Intel Version 10.x compilers with Abaqus 6.9 on Linux/x86-64 systems.
5 Distributed on the Abaqus DVD media
6 Fraunhofer SCAI
7 See DVD Media Announcement for information about the transition from CD to DVD media

 


Requirements to View Online Documentation

Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus HTML documentation 

Internet Browser 8

•  Mozilla 1.2
•  Firefox 1.0.1 

Abaqus PDF documentation 

PDF Viewer 9 

•  Supported 

Notes:
8 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.
9 Adobe's 32bit reader. You may be able to view PDF documentation using other unsupported readers available from third parties. See Use of Adobe Acrobat Reader on the Linux x86_64 Platform.


Other Platform Notes

Feature

Requirement

Specification

All supported products

Maximum memory accessible

•  This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB.

Linux/ Itanium

General Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform

Processor

Itanium II

Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform

OS Level

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 101
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Notes:
1 SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 includes Server (SLES) and Desktop (SLED) versions

 

 

Additional Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer

Graphics

Interactive products are not supported on this platform

Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++)

C++ Compiler

Intel C++ 10.1

User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines)

Fortran Compiler

Intel Visual Fortran 10.1

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based parallel execution

Library

HP-MPI 2.32

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution

Interconnect

1000 Mbps Ethernet

FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI

Partner Product

MpCCI version 3.1.03

Installation

Distribution Media

DVD-ROM4

Notes:
2 Distributed on the Abaqus DVD media.
3 Fraunhofer SCAI
4 See DVD Media Announcement for information about the transition from CD to DVD media

 

 

Requirements to View Online Documentation

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus HTML documentation

Internet Browser6

Firefox 2.05

Abaqus PDF documentation

PDF Viewer

Not Supported7

Notes:
5 FireFox 2.0 is not available on SLES 10 prior to SP2.
6 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.
7 You may be able to view PDF documentation on unsupported platforms using readers available from third parties. See Compare Abaqus PDF and HTML Documentation Formats.

 

 

Other Platform Notes

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

All supported products

Maximum memory accessible

This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB.

HP-UX/ Itanium

General Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform

Processor

•  Itanium II 

OS Level

•  HP-UX 11.23
•  HP-UX 11.31 

Additional Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer 

Graphics 

•  Interactive products are not supported on this platform 

Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++) 

C++ Compiler 

•  HP aC++ A.06.10
•  HP aC++ A.06.12 

User Subroutines and building postprocessing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) 

Fortran Compiler 

•  HP F90 2.9.3
•  HP F90 3.1.2 

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI based parallel execution 

Library 

•  HP-MPI 2.2.5.1 1 

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution 

Interconnect 

•  1000 Mbps Ethernet 

FSI Co-simuliation using MpCCI 

Partner Product 

•  MpCCI version 3.1.0 2 

Installation 

Distribution Media 

•  FTP 3 

Notes:
1 Distributed on the Abaqus DVD media.
2 Fraunhofer SCAI
3 Abaqus 6.9 will only be available on a limited distribution basis on HP-UX/Itanium signaling that support for this platform is expected to be discontinued in a subsequent release. HP-UX/Itanium 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.

 


Requirements to View Online Documentation

Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus HTML documentation 

Internet Browser 4 

•  Mozilla 1.2
•  Firefox 1.0.1

Abaqus PDF documentation 

PDF Viewer 

•  Not supported. You may be able to view PDF documentation on unsupported platforms using readers available from third parties. See Compare Abaqus PDF and HTML Documentation Formats

Notes:
4 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.


Other Platform Notes

Feature

Requirement

Specification

All supported products

Maximum memory accessible

•  This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB.

AIX/ Power

General Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform

Processor

•  Power 4
•  Power 5
•  Power 6 

OS Level

•  AIX 5.3 1
•  AIX 6.1

Notes:
1AIX 5.3 requires patch bos.64bit 5.3.0.52

Additional Requirements

Product/Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer 

Graphics 

•  Interactive products are not supported on this platform 

Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++) 

C++ Compiler 

•  IBM xlC 9 2

User Subroutines and building postprocessing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) 

Fortran Compiler 

•  xlf 11.1 

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based parallel execution 

Library 

•  IBM POE 4.2.2.7 

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution 

Interconnect 

•  1000 Mbps Ethernet 

FSI Co-simuliation using MpCCI 

Partner Product 

•  MpCCI version 3.1.0 3 

Installation 

Distribution Media 

•  DVD-ROM4 

Notes:
2 See Support of ODB API for IBM AIX/Power Platforms
3 Fraunhofer SCAI
4 See DVD Media Announcement for information about the transition from CD to DVD media

. Mount -rv cdrfs device /cdrom, where device is the DVD-ROM device on your system

 


Requirements to View Online Documentation

Feature

Requirement

Specification

Abaqus HTML documentation 

Internet Browser 5 

•  Mozilla 1.2
•  Firefox 1.0.1

Abaqus PDF documentation 

PDF Viewer 

•  Not supported. You may be able to view PDF documentation on unsupported platforms using readers available from third parties. See Compare Abaqus PDF and HTML Documentation Formats

Notes:
5 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.


Other Platform Notes

Feature

Requirement

Specification

All supported products

Maximum memory accessible

•  This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB

 

Explanations of Table Contents and Terminology

System requirements include hardware, operating system versions, and any other tools required to run Abaqus. Where more than one specification is listed for a given requirement, select one from the list. The Abaqus System Requirements web pages define the range of supported configurations. The intent is to support any combination of specifications within the defined range. Minor updates to operating systems, compilers and other system requirements are usually compatible. Earlier versions of prerequisites are generally not compatible, and thus are not supported. Any exceptions identified which affect compatibility of minor updates will be noted here.

General Requirements are the minimum system requirements which are necessary to utilize any Abaqus product or feature supported on this platform; however the minimum requirements are not sufficient to support all Abaqus products or capabilities. Additional Requirements, beyond the General Requirements, are necessary for specific Abaqus products and features. Additional Requirements must be met only if you want to use the specific Abaqus product or feature associated with the requirement.

Final configurations depend on successful testing outcomes.  Supported platforms and configurations are subject to change without notice.

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