General Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform Processor X86-641
OS Level

•  Windows XP 64
•  Windows Server 2003 64-bit
•  Windows Vista

Note:
1 The Windows/x86-64 release of Abaqus requires Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x64) which must be installed prior to running Abaqus.  Information about this downloadable package is available from the Microsoft.
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

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

•  with Windows Compute Cluster Pack
•  Windows Server 2003 with
   Windows Compute Cluster Pack
•   See Answer 3097

Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution
Interconnect for DMP •  See Abaqus Answer 3097
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI MpCCI
(Fraunhofer SCAI)
MpCCI Version 3.0.6
Abaqus installation Optical Media1 V6.7 CD-ROM
V6.7-EF DVD-ROM
Mounted automatically
Note:
1 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 1.0.12
Abaqus PDF documentation PDF Viewer •  Adobe Reader 6.0
•  Adobe Reader 5.0
Collection level search is supported on Windows only
Note:
2 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: April 18, 2008 9:26 AM