General Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification (Tier 1)
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform Processor Itanium II
OS Level HP-UX B.11.221
1 Other supported operating systems and versions are listed below under Additional Test Configurations.
Additional Requirements for specific Abaqus Products and Features
Product/Feature Requirement Specification (Tier 1)
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.05.55 [Dec 04 2003] IPF
User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) Fortran Compiler Compilers: HP F90 v2.8.1
(HP aC++ A.05.55 [Dec 04 2003] IPF also required)
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI based parallel execution
MPI HP-MPI 2.0.0 (distributed on the Abaqus CD)
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution
Interconnect for DMP Ethernet 1000 Mbps
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI MpCCI
(Fraunhofer SCAI)
FSI Co-simulation is not currently supported on this platform
Abaqus installation CD-ROM Mounted automatically

Additional Test Configurations
Only changes with respect to the Tier 1 configuration are listed.
Tier 2 test configuration
Targeted version
Requirement Specification (Tier 2)
6.6-1 OS Level MPI HP-UX B.11.23 HP-MPI 2.01.01 (distributed on the Abaqus CD)
6.6-1 Interconnect for DMP Cisco Topspin Infiniband

Requirements to View Online Documentation
Feature Requirement Specification
Abaqus HTML documentation Internet Browser Netscape 7.0, Mozilla 1.2, Firefox 1.01, or later
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 Answer 1599.

Other Platform Notes
Feature Requirement Specification
Abaqus Analysis products Maximum memory accessible
This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB.
Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit Patch
Patch PHSS_28304 FORTRAN I/O Library [libIO77] or newer (required with HP-UX 11.22 only)
Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit Patch
PHSS_30210 aC++ Runtime (A.05.55) or newer (required with HP-UX 11.22 only)

Last Updated On: June 20, 2006 7:58 AM