System Requirements for Abaqus 6.10-EF Products

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System Requirements for Abaqus 6.10-EF 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	x86-32¹
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform	OS Level⁴	• Windows XP² • Windows Server 2003 • Windows Vista³ • Windows 7
Notes: ¹ The minimum processor required is equivalent to Intel Pentium 4 or AMD processors supporting SSE2 instruction set. ² Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft. Any underlying OS specific bugs may not be able to be addressed. SIMULIA recommends upgrading to a later version OS. ³ 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 6.10 and are supported. See the Test Configurations web page for tested Vista editions. ⁴ Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 and 2008 SP1 runtime libraries are required required and installed during the Abaqus installation. See Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Requirements for Windows for more information.

Additional Requirements
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer	Graphics	Abaqus 6.10-EF Graphics Devices
Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++)	C++ Compiler	• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1⁵ • Microsoft Visual C++ 2010⁶
User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines)	Fortran Compiler⁷	• Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 • Intel Visual Fortran 11.1
Abaqus/Standard/Explicit/CFD MPI-based parallel execution	Library	HP-MPI 1.1⁸
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution	Interconnect	DMP is unavailable on this platform.
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI	Partner Product	MpCCI version 3.1.0⁹
Installation	Distribution Media	DVD-ROM
Notes: ⁵ Visual C++ 2008 is also known as Visual C++ 9.0 ⁶ Visual C++ 2010 is also known as Visual C++ 10.0 ⁷ 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. ⁸ Distributed with Abaqus products ⁹ Fraunhofer SCAI

Requirements to View Online Documentation
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Abaqus HTML documentation	Internet Browser¹¹	• Firefox 2.0, 3.0 • Firefox 3.5¹⁰ • Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8
Abaqus PDF documentation	PDF Viewer¹²	Adobe Reader 8.0, 9.0
Notes: ¹⁰ Required for Windows 7 ¹¹ Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance. ¹² Later versions of these PDF Readers are expected to offer better performance.

Other Platform Notes
*Product/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
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform	OS Level²	• Windows XP¹ • Windows Server 2003 • Windows Server 2008 • Windows Server 2008 R2 • Windows HPC Server 2008 • Windows Vista • Windows 7
Notes: ¹ Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft. Any underlying OS specific bugs may not be able to be addressed. SIMULIA recommends upgrading to a later version OS. ² Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 and 2008 SP1 runtime libraries are required required and installed during the Abaqus installation. Both 32-bit & 64-bit runtime libraries are required to perform some translator functions. See Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Requirements for Windows for more information.

Additional Requirements
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer	Graphics	Abaqus 6.10-EF Graphics Devices
Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++)	C++ Compiler	• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1³ • Microsoft Visual C++ 2010⁴
User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines)	Fortran Compiler⁵	• Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 • Intel Visual Fortran 11.1
Abaqus/Standard/Explicit/CFD MPI-based parallel execution	Library	MS-MPI 2.0, 2.1, 2.2⁶
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution	Interconnect	• Gigabit Ethernet⁷ • InfiniBand⁷
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI	Partner Product	MpCCI version 3.1.0-4⁸
Installation	Distribution Media	DVD-ROM
Notes: ³ Visual C++ 2008 is also known as Visual C++ 9.0 ⁴ Visual C++ 2010 is also known as Visual C++ 10.0 ⁵ 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. ⁶ Distributed with Abaqus products 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

Requirements to View Online Documentation
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Abaqus HTML documentation	Internet Browser¹⁰	• Firefox 2.0, 3.0 • Firefox 3.5⁹ • Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8
Abaqus PDF documentation	PDF Viewer¹¹	Adobe Reader 8.0, 9.0
Notes: ⁹ Required for Windows 7 ¹⁰ Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance. ¹¹ Later versions of these PDF Readers are expected to offer better performance.

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

Linux/ x86-64

General Requirements
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform	Processor	x86-64¹
	OS Level²	• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 • SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Notes: ¹ Supports both AMD Opteron and Intel EM64T processors. ² Red Hat and SuSE Enterprise release updates are expected to work. Please see the Test Configurations for Operating Systems levels tested after product release.

Additional Requirements
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer	Graphics	Abaqus 6.10-EF Graphics Devices
Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++)	C++ Compiler	• Intel C++ 10.1 • Intel C++ 11.1
User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines)	Fortran Compiler³	• Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 • Intel Visual Fortran 11.1
Abaqus/Standard/Explicit/CFD MPI-based parallel execution	Library	HP-MPI 2.3⁴
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution	Interconnect	• Gigabit Ethernet • InfiniBand
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI	Partner Product	MpCCI version 3.1.0-4⁵
Installation	Distribution Media	DVD-ROM
Notes: ³ See Using the Intel 10/11 Compiler for Linux with Abaqus to address a new dependency introduced when using Intel Version 11.x compilers on Linux/x86-64 systems. ⁴ Distributed with Abaqus products ⁵ Fraunhofer SCAI

Requirements to View Online Documentation
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Abaqus HTML documentation	Internet Browser⁷	Firefox 2.0, 3.0⁶
Abaqus PDF documentation	PDF Viewer	Supported⁸
Notes: ⁶ FireFox 2.0 is not available on SLES 10 prior to SP2. ⁷ Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance. ⁸ Adobe's 32-bit reader. You may also 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
*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.

Linux/ Itanium

General Requirements
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform	Processor	Itanium II
	OS Level¹	• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Notes: ¹ Please see the Test Configurations page for supported Operating Systems added after product release.

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/Explicit/CFD MPI-based parallel execution	Library	HP-MPI 2.3²
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution	Interconnect	• Gigabit Ethernet • InfiniBand
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI	Partner Product	MpCCI version 3.1.0³
Installation	Distribution Media	FTP
Notes: ² Distributed with Abaqus products ³ Fraunhofer SCAI

Requirements to View Online Documentation
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Abaqus HTML documentation	Internet Browser⁵	Firefox 2.0⁴
Abaqus PDF documentation	PDF Viewer	Not Supported⁶
Notes: ⁴ FireFox 2.0 is not available on SLES 10 prior to SP2. ⁵ Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance. ⁶ 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.

AIX/ Power

General Requirements
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform	Processor	• Power 4 • Power 5 • Power 6
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform	OS Level	• AIX 5.3¹ • AIX 6.1
Notes: ¹ AIX 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 9.0²
User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines)	Fortran Compiler	IBM xlf 11.01
Abaqus/Standard/Explicit/CFD MPI-based parallel execution	Library	IBM POE 4.2.2.7³
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution	Interconnect	• Gigabit Ethernet • InfiniBand
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI	Partner Product	MpCCI version 3.1.0-4⁴
Installation	Distribution Media	FTP
Notes: ² See Support of ODB API for IBM AIX/Power Platforms ³ Later versions are expected to offer acceptable performance. ⁴ Fraunhofer SCAI

Requirements to View Online Documentation
*Product/Feature*	*Requirement*	*Specification*
Abaqus HTML documentation	Internet Browser⁵	Firefox 2.0
Abaqus PDF documentation	PDF Viewer	Not Supported⁶
Notes: ⁵ Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance. ⁶ 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.

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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