General Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform Processor X86-32 1
OS Level •  SuSE 9.3
•  SuSE Enterprise Linux 9
•  SuSE Enterprise Linux 10 2
•  SuSe 104
•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 33
•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux  43
•  Fedora Core 64

Notes:
1 Processors must be equivalent to Pentium 4 or higher.
2 SuSe Linux Enterprise 10 includes Server (SLES) and Desktop (SLED) versions.
3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux include ES, AS, and WS versions.
4 Refer to Answer 3255 for information about Bug v67_0993 which affects Linux distributions using glibc V2.5 such as SuSE 10.2, Red Hat 5 and Fedora Core 6.

Additional Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification
Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer Graphics Version 6.7 Graphics Devices
Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++) C++ Compiler Intel C++ 9.1
User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) Fortran Compiler Intel Fortran 9.1
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based parallel execution		 MPI HP MPI 2.2.5 (distributed on the Abaqus CD)
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution		 Interconnect for DMP 1000 Mbps Ethernet
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI MpCCI (Fraunhofer SCAI )
 MpCCI Version 3.0.6
Abaqus installation Optical Media5 V6.7 CD-ROM
V6.7-EF DVD-ROM		 Mounted automatically
Note:
5 See Answer 3184 for information about the transition from CD to DVD media beginning with Abaqus Version 6.7-EF.

Requirements to View Online Documentation
Feature Requirement Specification
Abaqus HTML documentation Internet Browser •  Netscape 7.0
•  Mozilla 1.2
•  Firefox 1.0.16
Abaqus PDF documentation PDF Viewer •  Adobe Reader 6.0
•  Adobe Reader 5.0
Collection level search is supported on Windows only.
Note:
6 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.

Other Platform Notes
Feature Requirement Specification
All supported products Maximum memory accessible
 This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB

Last Updated On: December 10, 2007 11:16 AM