fe-safe Supported Platforms & Release Compatibility

Release Specific Notes:

¹ Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Vista. Intel 32 bIt architecture only (1A32). Itanium versions (IA64) are not supported natively. 64-bit Windows XP and Vista platforms are supported on x86-64 AMD processors or Intel EM64T equivalents, with the fe-safe application running as a 32 bit application. Qualified by SIMULIA only on a subset of supported platforms.

² Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 and Novell SUSE 10 (aka OpenSUSE). x86-64 architecture, i.e. AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 processors, and Intel EM64T compliant processors. Qualified by SIMULIA only on a subset of supported platforms. Please note: Novell SUSE Linux requires package compat-expat1. SUSE 10.0 has known issues and should not be used.

³ Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, XP and Vista. Support for Microsoft Windows is on IA-32 (Intel 32-bit) and x86-64 (AMD64 (Opteron, Athlon) and Intel EM64T compliant processors, or equivalents) architectures only. 64-bit Windows XP and 64-bit Windows Vista platforms are supported on x86-64 processors, with the fe-safe application running as a 32-bit application. Itanium versions (IA64) are not supported natively. Qualified by SIMULIA only on a subset of supported platforms.

⁴ Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop, or equivalent, and Novell openSUSE 10.1 and 10.2 (openSUSE Linux requires package compat-expat1). Support for Linux is on x86-64 (AMD64 (Opteron, Athlon) and Intel EM64T compliant processors, or equivalents) architectures only. Qualified by SIMULIA only on a subset of supported platforms.

⁵ IBM-AIX 5.3 PowerPC 64-bit (POWER4, POWER5 and POWER6 architectures). Please contact your local SIMULIA office to get more information about the support for the AIX.

⁶ This cumulative patch supports Abaqus 6.9-EF ODB interface on Windows/x86-32 and Linux/x86-64 platforms. This patch is not a full installation and can be applied only to fe-safe v5.4-05 general availability release. Please contact your local SIMULIA office to get this fe-safe patch. This patch was not qualified by SIMULIA but a full qualification cycle was run on this patch by Safe Technology.

⁷ This cumulative patch supports Abaqus 6.10 ODB interface on Windows/x86-32 and Linux/x86-64 platforms. This patch is not a full installation and can be applied only to fe-safe v5.4-05 general availability release. Please contact your local SIMULIA office to get this fe-safe patch. This patch was not qualified by SIMULIA but a full qualification cycle was run on this patch by Safe Technology.

⁸ Microsoft XP, Vista and Windows7. 64-bit Windows XP and Vista platforms are supported on x86-64 AMD processors or Intel EM64T equivalents, with the fe-safe application running as a 32 bit application. Qualified by SIMULIA on a subset of supported platforms.

⁹ Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop and openSuSE 10.3 and 11.1 (SIMULIA qualification with SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1). Support for Linux is on x86-64 (AMD64 (Opteron, Athlon) and Intel EM64T compliant processors, or equivalents) architectures only. Qualified by SIMULIA only on a subset of supported platforms.

¹⁰ This cumulative patch supports Abaqus 6.11 ODB interface on Windows/x86-32, Windows/x86-64 and Linux/x86-64 platforms. This patch is not a full installation and can be applied only to fe-safe v6.0-00 general availability release. Please contact your local SIMULIA office to get this fe-safe patch. This patch was not qualified by SIMULIA but a full qualification cycle was run on this patch by Safe Technology.

¹¹ SIMULIA fe-safe/Composites is not available on Linux platforms.