General Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform Processor

•  Power 6
•  Power 5
•  Power 4

OS Level

•  AIX 5.3 1
•  AIX 6.1

Notes:
1Aix 5.3 requires patch bos.64bit 5.3.0.52
Additional Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification
Abaqus/CAE, Abaqus/Viewer Graphics Interactive products are not supported on this platform
Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++) C++ Compiler •  IBM xlC 9
User Subroutines and building post processing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines) Fortran Compiler •  xlf 11.1
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI based parallel execution		 Library
•  IBM POE 4.2.2.7
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution		 Interconnect •  1000 Mbps Ethernet
FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI MpCCI
(Fraunhofer SCAI)
 MpCCI Version 3.0.6-20
Abaqus installation DVD-ROM2 mount -rv cdrfs device /cdrom
where device is the DVD-ROM device on your system

Notes:
2 See Answer 3184 for information about the transition from CD to DVD media beginning with Abaqus 6.7-EF, released in Q4-2007

Requirements to View Online Documentation
Feature Requirement Specification
Abaqus HTML documentation Internet Browser3 •  Netscape 7.0,
•  Mozilla 1.2,
•  Firefox 1.0.1
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.
Notes:
3Later 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: September 4, 2008 1:27 PM