FLOTHERM, FLOVENT, FLO/EMC Version 5.1. Hardware and Operating System Requirements. Prepared by: Ian W. Clark

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1 FLOTHERM, FLOVENT, FLO/EMC Version 5.1 Hardware and Operating System Requirements Prepared by: Ian W. Clark 15 July 2004 Document Number: DEV000059_04 Copyright Flomerics Limited Flomerics Limited 81, Bridge Road Hampton Court Surrey KT8 9HH UK Telephone +44 (0) Fax +44 (0)

2 TABLES OF CONTENTS TABLES OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Purpose Scope MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS SUPPORTED PLATFORM AND OS REVISIONS PATCH CONFIGURATION & OPENGL SUPPORT FOR SOLARIS PATCH CONFIGURATION & OPENGL SUPPORT FOR HPUX X-TERMINALS AND X-EMULATION SOFTWARE DELIVERY... 6 DEV000059_04 Issue 2.0 2

3 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose This document is intended to outline the hardware and operating system requirements for successful installation and practical use of FLOTHERM, FLOVENT and FLO/EMC v5.1. The release date for these products is currently planned for Q3, Scope The requirements are intended to provide a definitive set of information that will allow the worldwide user base to prepare their in-house hardware and operating system revision for the forthcoming release of the v5.1 product. [The changes to the document between Issue 1 and Issue 2 are shown in red text.] 2. MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS The minimum hardware requirements for v5.1 will be: 256 Mbytes RAM minimum, 512 Mbytes recommended; Minimum 500 Mbytes of free swap space or virtual memory; Minimum 300 Mbytes free disk space to install; Minimum of 1 Gbyte, recommended 5Gbyte additional free disk space for practical project data storage; The FLOMOTION module operates optimally using OpenGL acceleration in hardware. To take full advantage of the power of this application window it is recommended that a 24-bit graphics card with texture mapping be available. The FLO/MCAD application window is built on the OpenGL graphics library. It is recommended that the latest versions of these libraries are available on all supported UNIX hardware (it is included by default with NT4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP). See Section 3 for information on OpenGL support for Solaris. DEV000059_04 Issue 2.0 3

4 3. SUPPORTED PLATFORM AND OS REVISIONS AIX 4.3 has been dropped from the supported OS list for We also do not expect to support any future versions of this OS. PLEASE NOTE: We will continue to support AIX 4.3 as a license server and will offer full support through 2004 for all existing software releases. For the product releases in 2005 all software support including license server support will expire for this OS. The v5.1 release will be supported on the following platforms and OS revisions: Platform OS Revision Notes Windows 32-bit Windows NT4, SP 6a. See Note 1 Windows 2000, SP1 or higher. Windows XP Professional, See Note 2 SP1 or higher. Windows 64-bit Windows XP 64-Bit Edition See Note 3 and 4 for Extended Systems (i.e. Opteron) Windows Server Windows Server 2003, See Note 5 Enterprise Edition. LINUX 32-bit Red Hat Enterprise V3. See Note 6 HPUX HPUX 11i (Technical See Note 7 Computing OE Environment - June 2002). SUN Solaris (Sparc) SOLARIS 7 (11/99 Release), 8 (10/00 Release) & 9. See Notes 7, 8 and 9 Notes 1. PLEASE NOTE: V5.1 will be the last Flomerics software release supported on Windows NT 4.0. This OS has been retired by Microsoft, with the Extended Support period expiring as of June 2003 ( 2. On Windows XP Professional, we had intended offering 3 Gbyte memory addressing for the FLOTHERM and FLOVENT solvers. Unfortunately, in-house tests of this Microsoft feature resulted in a number of operating system crashes and as a result has been withdrawn as a change for the V5.1 release. If the stability of this feature is improved by Microsoft, Flomerics will consider making it available in a subsequent software release. For further information on this feature, please refer to 3. Itanium II support has been dropped for the V5.1 release and Opteron support has been deferred until the necessary compilers become available. A decision on when we can deliver a 64-bit Opteron release will be made in December 2004, but we currently expect this to be in Q1, We currently expect this to be a 32-bit port of the software generally, but with 64-bit versions of the solver and EFG. 4. On Windows XP 64-bit Editions, up to 16 gigabytes of RAM can be addressed and up to eight terabytes of virtual memory ( 5. Windows Server 2003 support will be for FLOTHERM and FLOVENT only. 6. For FLOTHERM and FLOVENT, support for the Linux OS has been deferred until Q and will be limited to the following software modules: Solver (single processor only), Exchange factor generator (EFG), Volunteer daemon. DEV000059_04 Issue 2.0 4

5 7. In addition to the normal OS support, we will also be providing continued support for the following optimised solvers for FLOTHERM and FLOVENT: For the PA2 processor running under HPUX; For the Ultrasparc processor running under SOLARIS. 8. All products will be supported on Solaris bit versions of the solvers will be available for this OS. 9. Solaris 10 is due for release in Q3, 2004 so we anticipate supporting this OS with our software releases in PLEASE NOTE: V5.1 will be the last Flomerics software release supported on Solaris 7 and we expect to support Solaris 8,9 and 10 in PATCH CONFIGURATION 1 & OpenGL SUPPORT FOR SOLARIS The v5.1 release will be built using: SOLARIS 7 (11/99) SOLARIS 8 (10/00) SOLARIS 9 (02/02) The latest information on patches and OpenGL support from SUN can be found at the following URLs: PATCH CONFIGURATION 2 & OpenGL SUPPORT FOR HPUX The v5.1 release will be built using: HPUX 11i (Technical Computing OE Environment - June 2002) The latest information on patches and OpenGL support from HP can be found at the following URLs: X-TERMINALS AND X-EMULATION SOFTWARE The v5.1 software release is designed around the OpenGL graphics standard and is designed to operate in an optimum fashion by utilising graphics hardware local to the machine running the software. It is, 1 As the UNIX OS vendors frequently add new patches and retire older OS patches, Flomerics can no longer provide reliable patch information. Users are asked to contact the OS vendors directly if any issues relating to OS patches arise with the operation of Flomerics software products. 2 DEV000059_04 Issue 2.0 5

6 therefore, not recommended practise that the software is launched remotely by utilising either X- Terminals or X-emulation software such as Exceed or Reflection-X. 7. DELIVERY FLOTHERM, FLOVENT, FLO/EMC Version 5.1 is expected to ship in Q3, 2004 subject to the quality controls and testing procedures used within Flomerics. The default delivery for v5.1 will be CD-ROM or electronically via an authorised Flomerics FTP site. DEV000059_04 Issue 2.0 6