Abaqus 6.8 & 6.8-EF Supported Platforms & Products

  • Supported Platforms and products for maintenance releases 6.8-2 and higher are the same as Abaqus 6.8-1.
  • Availability dates are listed below.

6.8-1        May 29, 2008

6.8-2        August 8, 2008

6.8-EF     November 17, 2008

6.8-3        December 3, 2008

6.8-EF2   March 9, 2009

6.8-4        March 16, 2009

6.8-EF3   July 10, 2009

6.8-5        July 21, 2009

 

Platforms

Windows/
x86-323

Windows/
x86-644

Linux/
x86-32
3,6

Linux/
x86-644

Linux/
Itanium

HP-UX/
Itanium
6

AIX/
Power

Products

Abaqus Interactive Products

CAE1

5

5

 

 

 

Viewer1

5

5

 

 

 

Abaqus Analysis Products

Standard2

Explicit

Abaqus Interface Products

Interface for Moldflow

Interface for MSC. ADAMS

 

Add on Analysis Products

Abaqus/AMS

 

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 SOSS 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. XFree86 is required.
  6. Linux/x86-32 and HP-UX/Itanium platforms are designated as limited distribution status. These platforms will be qualified and supported using the same procedures as other platforms; however, Abaqus products and licensing will not be included on the Abaqus distribution media, but will be available by download when requested through your local SIMULIA office. See SIMULIA Policy on Limited Distribution Software for information about limited distribution platforms.