General Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform Processor Itanium II
OS Level •  SLES 9
•  SLES 10
•  RHEL 4
•  RHEL 5
•  Bull Advanced Server1
•  Altix/MPT 1.15

Notes:
1Refer to Answer 3390 for instructions on downloading the compatible java version that is required for the Abaqus installation on the Bull Advanced System.

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 •  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
•  Intel Fortran 10.1
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit
MPI based parallel execution		 Library •  HP-MPI 2.2.5.1 (distributed on the Abaqus media)
•  MPT 1.15 (with SGI ProPack 5 on Altix)
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 Mounted automatically

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 5, 2008 8:34 AM