General Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform Processor X86-321
OS Level

•  Windows XP Professional SP2
•  Windows 2000 SP4
•  Windows Server 2003
•  Windows Vista 

Note:
1 Processors must be equivalent to Pentium 4 or higher.
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

•  Microsoft Visual C++ .NET2005
•  Microsoft Visual C++ .NET2003

User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) Fortran Compiler

•  Intel Visual Fortran 9.12
•  Intel Visual Fortran 8.12

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based parallel execution
MPI MPI not supported on this platform – use thread based parallel execution.
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution
Interconnect for DMP DMP is unavailable on this platform. Use thread based parallel execution.
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI MpCCI
(Fraunhofer SCAI)
MpCCI Version 3.0.6
Abaqus installation Optical Media3 V6.7 CD-ROM
V6.7-EF DVD-ROM
Mounted automatically

Notes:
2 Intel Visual Fortran requires Microsoft Visual C++* or Microsoft Visual Studio* as a pre-requisite.
3 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 •  Internet Explorer 6.0,
•   Netscape 7.0,
•   Mozilla 1.2,
•   Firefox 1.0.14
Abaqus PDF documentation PDF Viewer •  Adobe Reader 6.0
•  Adobe Reader 5.0
Collection level search is supported on Windows only.
Note:
4 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.

Other Platform Notes
Feature Requirement Specification
All supported products Maximum memory accessible
3 GB

Last Updated On: April 18, 2008 9:26 AM