General Requirements
Product/Feature Requirement Specification
Applicable for all Abaqus products supported on this platform Processor Itanium II
OS Level •  SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 1
•  SuSE Linux Enterprise 10
•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
•  Bull Advanced Server 2

Notes:
1 Requires Service Pack 2 for system library dependencies. See Answer 4148.
2 Refer 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
Building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility with C++)  C++ Compiler  •  Intel C++ 9.1 
User Subroutines and building postprocessing applications with Fortran (Abaqus make utility with Fortran and Abaqus user subroutines)  Fortran Compiler  •  Intel Visual Fortran 9.1 
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI based parallel execution  Library  •  HP-MPI 2.2.5.1 3 
Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit MPI-based Distributed Memory Parallel execution  Interconnect  •  1000 Mbps Ethernet 
FSI Co-simuliation using MpCCI  Partner Product  •  MpCCI version 3.1.0 4 
Installation  Distribution Media  •  DVD-ROM 5 
Notes:
3 Distributed on the Abaqus DVD media
4 Fraunhofer SCAI
5 See Answer 3184 for information about the transition from CD to DVD media

Requirements to View Online Documentation
Feature Requirement Specification
Abaqus HTML documentation Internet Browser 6 •  Mozilla 1.2
•  Firefox 1.0.1 
Abaqus PDF documentation  PDF Viewer 7 •  Not supported. You may be able to view PDF documentation on unsupported platforms using readers available from third parties. See Answer 1599.
Notes:
6 Later versions of these web browsers are expected to offer acceptable performance.
7 You may be able to view PDF documentation using other unsupported readers available from third parties.

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: May 21, 2009 2:15 PM