A.1 Software

The system configurations on which this release of Abaqus was developed and prepared for shipment by SIMULIA are listed below. The system configurations and requirements may change between releases or maintenance deliveries. The latest system configuration information, including any additional supported platforms and the Abaqus programs available on those platforms, can be found under the System Information section of the Support page at www.simulia.com. In most cases Abaqus is compatible with later versions of the operating system software; however, it is usually not compatible with earlier versions.

Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer are supported on a limited number of platforms. For more information, see the latest system configuration information as described above.

The following conditions apply to the system configurations:

A FORTRAN compiler is required for compiling user subroutines but is not required for running Abaqus without user subroutines.
Message Passing Interface (MPI) components are required to use MPI-based parallel execution in Abaqus/Standard, to use domain-level parallelization in Abaqus/Explicit, or to run any job in Abaqus/CFD (regardless of the number of CPUs). See “Visual C++ and MPI Libraries,” Section 2.4.1, and check the systems information web page mentioned above for supported MPI software and hardware interconnects.
The latest requirements for viewing Abaqus documentation, including supported web browsers (for HTML documentation) and PDF viewers (for PDF documentation), can be found on the systems information web page mentioned above.

Table A–1 through Table A–5 list the requirements for platforms supported in Abaqus 6.11.

Table A–1 Windows/x86-32.

Processor	x86-32¹
Operating system	Windows XP Professional SP3, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Compilers	Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 and 11.1, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 (also known as Visual C++ 9.0), Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 (also known as Visual C++ 10.0)
DVD	Mounted automatically.
¹ The minimum required processor is compatible with Intel Pentium IV or AMD processors supporting the SSE2 instructions set.

Table A–2 Windows/x86-64¹.

Processor	x86-64
Operating system	Windows XP 64-bit SP2, Windows Vista 64 SP2, Windows 7 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows HPC Server 2008
Compilers	Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 and 11.1, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 (also known as Visual C++ 9.0), Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 (also known as Visual C++ 10.0)
DVD	Mounted automatically.
¹ This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB.

Table A–3 Linux/x86-64¹.

Processor	x86-64²
Operating system	SUSE Linux Enterprise 10³, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Compilers	Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 and 11.1, Intel C++ 10.1 and 11.1
DVD	Mounted automatically.
¹ This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB.
² Linux/x86-64 supports both AMD Opteron and Intel EM64T processors.
³ SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 includes Server (SLES) and Desktop (SLED) versions.

Table A–4 Linux/Itanium¹.

Processor	Itanium II
Operating system	SUSE Linux Enterprise 10², Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Compilers	Intel Visual Fortran 10.1, Intel C++ 10.1
DVD	Available only by ftp download. Contact your local office or representative.
¹ This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB.
² SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 includes Server (SLES) and Desktop (SLED) versions.

Table A–5 AIX/POWER¹.

Processor	Power 4, Power 5, Power 6
Operating system	AIX 5.3², AIX 6.1
Compilers	XL Fortran Compiler 11.01, IBM XL C/C++ Compiler 9.0³
DVD	Available only by ftp download. Contact your local office or representative.
¹ This platform supports 64-bit addressing, which enables memory usage in excess of 2 GB.
² Patch bos.64bit 5.3.0.52 must be installed prior to installing Abaqus on AIX 5.3 systems.
³ See “Support of ODB API for IBM AIX/Power platforms” in the Dassault Systèmes DSX.ECO Knowledge Base at www.3ds.com/support/knowledge-base or the SIMULIA Online Support System, which is accessible through the My Support page at www.simulia.com.