SIMULIA Execution Engine 4.5 Release Dates & Supported Platforms

  • Data published before the final release are preliminary and may not be consistent with the final release.
  • Availability dates are listed below.

4.5-1   June 4, 2010

4.5-2   September 24, 2010

4.5-3   June 3, 2011

SIMULIA Execution Engine 4.5

 

SIMULIA Execution Engine 4.5
on WebSphere

SIMULIA Execution Engine 4.5
on WebLogic

SIMULIA Execution Engine 4.5 Express (middleware included)

Platform / Processor

Operating System

WebSphere 7
DB2 9.5 or Oracle 10g or 11g

WebLogic 10
Oracle 10g or 11g

WebSphere 7 Express DB2 9.5 Express (IBM runtime versions)

Power

AIX 5.3

Validated (32 bit installation)

Incompatible

Incompatible

x86

Windows 2003 Server

Qualified

Qualified

Qualified

x64

Windows 2003 Server (64-bit)

Validated

Validated

Validated (32 bit installation)

x64

Windows 2008 Server (64-bit)

Validated

Validated

Validated (32 bit installation)

x86

RHEL 4 (32-bit)

Validated

Validated

Validated

x64

SLES 10 (64-bit OS)

Validated

Incompatible

Validated (32 bit installation)

x64

RHEL 5 (32/64bit OS)

Validated

Validated

Validated (32 bit installation)

Sun SPARC

Solaris 10

Validated (32 bit installation)

Validated (32 bit installation)

Incompatible

 

SIMULIA Execution Engine Stations

Processor/Platform

Operating System

SIMULIA Execution Engine Stations

Sun SPARC

Solaris 9

Compatible

Solaris 10

Validated

HP PA-RISC

HP-UX 11.11(11i v1)

Compatible

HP-UX 11.23(11i v2)

Validated

HP-UX 11.31(11i v3)

Compatible

Power

AIX 5L v5.2

Compatible

AIX 5L v5.3

Validated

AIX v6.1

Compatible

x86

Windows 2000 Pro

Validated

Windows XP Pro (32-bit)

Qualified

Windows Vista Business

Validated**

Windows Server 2003 (32-bit)

Validated

Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4.0

Validated

Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.0

Compatible

SuSE 10.x

Compatible

x64

Windows XP Pro (64-bit)

Qualified

Windows Vista Business (64-bit)

Validated**

Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)

Validated**

Windows 2003 Server (64-bit)

Validated

Windows 2008 Server (64-bit)

Validated**

SLES 10.x (64-bit)

Validated

RHEL 4/5 (64-bit)

Validated

 

To operate the WebTop and WebDashboard, one of the following browsers is required:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7 or 8
  • Mozilla Firefox version 2.5 or higher

Notes:

  • Only 32 bit versions of the Fiper/SEE ACS and Station are available for Unix operating systems. ACSs on AIX and Solaris must run inside a 32 bit version of the application server
  • x86 processors include 32-bit versions of Intel Pentium, Intel Xeon and AMD Athlon family
  • x64 processors include AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron and Intel Xeon and Pentium 4, each with Intel 64 architecture support

The supported version of WebLogic Application Server is 10.3.2.0, also known as Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1
The minimum supported version of WebSphere Application Server is 7.0.0.7
The supported version of DB2 is 9.5
The supported versions of Oracle are 10.2.0.1.0 and 11.1.0.6.0 (11g)

** - Following are known issues for Windows 7 Professional, Windows Vista Business and Windows 2008 Server

  • Some operations of the FLEXnet license manager require running with Administrator privileges
  • SIMULIA Execution Engine Stations will not run the Excel component when attached to an ACS in RunAs security mode
  • SIMULIA Execution Engine Stations will not run the Excel component when the station is running as a Windows Service (Station as a Service), regardless of ACS security level

These limitations are due to the additional security features of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server.

Platforms are categorized as:

  • Qualified