This document is provided as a guideline regarding hardware configurations, operating system, and operating system patches recommended for the use with this level of Abaqus products. Consult the Platform Support Policy for definitions of support terms. For additional details on test configurations, graphics devices, performance, and selected products' compatibility matrices, go to the Dassault Systèmes Home Page (www.3ds.com) and select Support -> Hardware and Software.
Supported Platforms Windows Server Windows 10, 11 2016, 2019 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, OS Professional and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, 15 (with or without 8 Enterprise HPC Pack) x86-64 Intel or Processor x86-64 Intel or AMD x86-64 Intel or AMD x86-64 Intel or AMD AMD Required OS Components (see Runtime libraries as listed in Notes Runtime libraries as listed in Notes below Notes below) below
Supported Virtualization
Platform Support Policy
Definitions of the terms related to the platform support policy are available here.
Support Policy for Operating Systems
Windows o The support policy on Windows 10 is available here o The support policy on Windows 11 is now available here Windows Server o Windows Server 2016 is a Qualified platform o Windows Server 2019 is a Validated platform o Windows Server 2022 is a Validated platform Linux*: o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.6 is a Qualified platform o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.x, where x>6, is a Compatible platform o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8.1 is a Validated platform o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8.6 is a Qualified platform o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8.x, where x>6, is a Compatible platform o SuSE Linux Enterprise Server o SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 is a Qualified platform o SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SPx, where x>4, is a Compatible platform o SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 is a Validated platform o SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SPx, where x>1, is a Compatible platform * Linux platform notes: The Abaqus CAD Associative Interfaces for CATIA v5, Pro/ENGINEER, and Solidworks are not supported on the Linux platform. For Haswell and newer processors a kernel update may be required. For more information, see bug number BR10000165399. Abaqus/CAE users may see this warning on startup: "/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62: no version information available". This message can safely be ignored. THP should be disabled or set to madvise. For more information, see QA00000043172
Disk Space Requirements for Installations
Product Windows Linux
EXALEAD CloudView 3.7 G 3.7G
EXALEAD Search for 1.1G 1.1G Documentation
Isight 1.2G 1.2G
Established Products 14G 15G
Documentation 3.7G 3.7G
Support Policy for MPI and Interconnects
MPI: o Windows (user-supplied): o MS MPI 10.1.2 is Qualified o Note: If MS MPI is not present on a system, 10.1.2 will be automatically installed. Newer versions of MS MPI not listed are Compatible. o Linux (supplied with the application): IBM Platfrom MPI is the default MPI implementation for Abaqus/Standard Intel MPI is the default MPI implementation for Abaqus/Explicit o Intel MPI o Intel® MPI 2021 Update 3 is Qualified o Any version of Intel® MPI 2021 is Compatible o IBM Platform MPI o IBM Platform MPI 9.1.4.3 is Validated Interconnects: o Windows: o Infiniband: Mellanox ConnectX VPI (MT26428) - PCIe 2.0 5GT/s, IB QDR / 10GigE Network Adapter with Mellanox driver version 2.1.3.7290 is Qualified o GigE, 10GigE with TCP/IP Ethernet driver is Validated o On Windows HPC systems, any interconnect solution supported by MS MPI is Compatible o For more information on availability of DMP on Windows/X86-64, see Support for Distributed Memory Parallel Analyses on Windows Platforms. o Linux: o Infiniband: Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4] with OFED-4.5-1.0.1 is Qualified o Infiniband: Mellnox Technologogies MT28908 Family [Connect-X 6] with OFED-4.9.2 is validated o All other versions of OFED 4.x and 5.x are Compatible o Intel Omni-Path: Intel 100 Series with driver 10.7.0.0.145 is Qualified o GigE, 10GigE with TCP/IP Ethernet Driver are Validated o Any interconnect solution supported by IBM Platform MPI 9.1.4.3 is Compatible. See the IBM Platform MPI release notes for more information. o Any interconnect solution supported by Intel MPI is Compatible. See the Intel MPI release notes for more information.
Support Policy for Workload Managers
Windows: o Windows HPC Pack 2016 is Validated o All other Microsoft-supported versions of Windows HPC are Compatible Linux: o IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1.0.8 is Qualified o All other IBM-supported versions of Spectrum (formerly Platform) LSF are Compatible o A list of other, compatible workload managers can be found in KB Article QA00000008056
Support Policy for FSI Co-simulation using MpCCI
MpCCI version 4.4.2 is Qualified. For more information, see Fraunhofer SCAI.
Support Policy for GPGPU Analysis Compute
GPUs with a minimum FP64 rate of 1 TFLOPs are highly recommended. GPGPU computing is not supported on VDI desktops. Windows o AMD: o Validated devices and drivers: o AMD Radeon Pro W5500 with driver 22Q2 o NVIDIA: o Driver should be run in TCC mode for reliable GPGPU analysis computing o Any driver version that supports CUDA 11.5.1 or greater is Compatible (driver version 496.13 or later) o Validated devices and drivers: o Tesla GP100, GV100 with driver 511.79 Linux o NVIDIA o Any driver version that supports CUDA 11.5.1 or greater is Compatible (driver version 495.29 or later) o Validated devices and drivers: o Tesla K80, A100, P100, V100 with driver 515.48
Policy for Viewing Online Documentation
For more information, see HTML documentation.
Additional Notes Runtime Libraries o The Intel® MKL 2019 Update 4 runtime math library is included with Abaqus. o On Linux, Abaqus requires the following additional libraries that may not be installed with your distribution. o libjpeg 6.2 64-bit o libstdc++ 4.7 64-bit o libgomp (Red Hat/CentOS) / libgomp1 (SLES) o libXm4 (SLES) o freetype o ksh o redhat-lsb-core-4.x (Red Hat) o lsb-release-2.0 (SLES) o libpng12-0 (SLES) o zlib-devel (SLES) Memory o A minimum of 1 GB of free physical memory is required to run Abaqus. Graphics o For Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer, X-Windows is required on Linux platforms. The OpenGL shared library is required on the computer where these products are run. o Graphics devices that have been currently tested with 2023 GA Compilers: o A C++ or FORTRAN compiler is needed for compiling user subroutines or for building post processing applications (Abaqus make utility). o For Windows platforms only, a FORTRAN compiler must also be installed when building user subroutines. For more information, see BR10000186112. o User-written post processing programs created with the Abaqus make utility should be compiled using the compiler for the program language and linked using a C++ compiler. Therefore, both a FORTRAN and C++ compiler are required for user-written FORTRAN programs. o User-written programs that were compiled and linked with the Abaqus make utility in a previous release of Abaqus and processing only the results (.fil) file can still be used with an Abaqus 2016 results file without any change. In this instance no compiler is required. Windows: o Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (Visual C++) is a Qualified Platform. o Intel® Fortran Version 19.0.5 is a Qualified Platform. Versions higher than 19.0.5 are Compatible. o Intel® Fortran on Windows requires the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment. For more information, see the Intel Visual Fortran Pre-requisites. o The Microsoft MPI Software Development Kit is required for building user subroutines that utilize MPI based parallelization. For more information, see Microsoft MPI v9 Linux: o Intel® Visual Fortran Version 19.0.5 is a Qualified Platform. Versions higher than 19.0.5 are Compatible. o C++ on Linux: o GCC 8.2.1 is a Qualified platform o GCC 8.x where x>2 is a Compatible platform Input Devices o Abaqus/CAE/Viewer provides support for 3DConnexion input devices such as SpacePilot, SpaceExplorer, and SpaceNavigator. Both Windows and Linux platforms are included. For best compatibility, please install the latest 3DConnexion driver and software.
Test Configurations for Abaqus 2022 Products
To view the platform configurations used to qualify Abaqus, click the tabs below. Configuration details are listed by operating system. Explanations of the table contents and terminology are provided after the tables Windows/x86-64 Operating System Target Release Windows10 Enterprise Build19042 2023 Windows10 Enterprise Build19044 2023 Windows11 Pro Build22000 2023 Linux/x86-64 Operating System Target Release RedHat Enterprise Linux release 8.4 2023 RedHat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 2023 RedHat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 2023 RedHat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 2023 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 2023
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 2023
Headings for each test configuration list the operating system level and target Abaqus release. All test configurations for a particular platform are supported using the same Abaqus software build. Given the large number of possible configuration permutations, even for a single platform, SIMULIA tests only a sample of the possible configurations. Test configurations listed here represent the Abaqus configurations which have undergone, or are scheduled for, formal qualification testing. See the Program Directories -> Prerequisites -> Support Policy for Operating Systems for information on qualified, validated, and compatible platforms.
The records contain details of system configurations used during formal testing. The date listed in the individual system configuration records indicates the date the system configuration was recorded, not the date of qualification. The output includes the processor specification and the number of processors and other system parameters such as graphics details (if applicable), the amount of physical and virtual memory, and file system details.
Final configurations depend on successful testing outcomes. Supported platforms and configurations are subject to change without notice
Platform Support Policy for Virtualization
Refer to the "Platform Support Policy for Virtualization for Servers" found in the 3DX Program Directory under Deployment -> Strategic Platforms -> Servers -> H/W & S/W Requirements. Additionally, the VDI configurations posted here are Compatible platforms for Abaqus/CAE.
