The disk space requirements to install Abaqus vary depending upon the platform on which Abaqus is installed. The Abaqus HTML plus PDF documentation installation requires approximately 2.0 GB. The Abaqus product installation requires approximately 700 MB to 1.1 GB, depending on the platform. The installation procedures provide an estimate of the disk space required for each installation option.

This disk space estimate does not include disk requirements for running analyses. Estimates of actual disk requirements are provided during the analysis input file processor stage of an Abaqus analysis. Swap space should typically be set to approximately three times the amount of physical memory installed on the computer.

Abaqus analyses can create large scratch files that are written to the directories specified by environment file parameters. These parameters can be changed from their defaults to point to file systems that are large enough to contain the scratch files. These variables are described in “Memory and disk management parameters,” Section 4.1.1.