General Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification (Tier 1)
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform Processor Itanium II
OS Level SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.01
Notes:
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 Intel Itanium C++ Compiler Version 8.1.021
User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) Fortran Compiler Intel Itanium Fortran Compiler Version 8.1.018
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI based parallel execution		 MPI HP-MPI 2.2.0 (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)
 MpCCI Version 3.0.52
Abaqus installation CD-ROM Mounted automatically
2SIMULIA intends to qualify and support Abaqus Version 6.6 with MpCCI 3.0.5 and FLUENT 6.3. However, delays with the official release of both MpCCI 3.0.5 and FLUENT 6.3 caused full qualification of FSI Co-simulation to lag the release of Abaqus V6.6.  In the interim, FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI with Abaqus Version 6.6 has been partially qualified using pre-release versions of MpCCI 3.0.5 and FLUENT 6.3. Until qualification can be completed with released versions of MpCCI and Fluent; SIMULIA recommends that interested FSI users continue to use Abaqus V6.5, MpCCI 3.0.4 and FLUENT 6.2.16.  Check back for new information which will be posted here as qualification progresses for FSI Co-simulation.

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 Red Hat Enterprise 3.0
6.6-1 OS Level


MPI

SGI Altix systems running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0

MPT 1.12
6.6-1 OS Level

Red Hat Enterprise 4.0 (Update 1)
6.6-1 Interconnect for DMP3 Myrinet GM
Voltaire InfiniBand
Quadrics QsNet II

6.6-5 & 6.6-EF1

 OS Level

Compilers
 Red Hat Enterprise 3.0

Intel EM64T C++ and Fortran Compilers 9.1 4

3The listed interconconnects have been tested with selected Tier 1 and Tier 2 configurations; however, each interconnect has not been tested with every processor and OS configuration. Investigation with Abaqus has shown little dependence of the interconnect operation on specific processor and OS variations.

4 Set the environment variable INTEL_VERSION = 9.1 for version 9.1 compilers. The Abaqus system information and verify utilities will produce a warning indicating the compilers are newer than the published requirement. See Answer 1777 for more information.

 

Requirements to View Online Documentation
Feature Requirement Specification
Abaqus HTML documentation Internet Browser Netscape 7.0, Mozilla 1.2, Firefox 1.0.1, or greater
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.

Last Updated On: December 5, 2007 12:21 PM