Platforms

Altair HyperWorks 11.0

OS

Version

Architecture

GUI Products

Solvers1

Windows2

XP/Vista/7

x86

YES

YES3

x86_64

YES

YES

Server 2003/2008

x86

NO

YES3

x86_64

NO

YES

Linux4

RHEL 5.4

SLED 11

x86

YES

YES3

x86_64

YES

YES

IA-64

NO

YES

SGI ProPack 4

(SLES 9)5

IA-64

NO

YES

Unix

IBM AIX 5.3

Power 4/5

NO6

YES7

Solaris 10

x86_64

NO

YES8

Mac OS X9

10.6

x86_64

YES

YES3

1

HyperWorks Solver products include RADIOSS, OptiStruct, MotionSolve, and HyperXtrude solver.  The HyperWorks solvers support AMD Opteron/Athlon64, Intel EM64T, Itanium2 (non-Windows based) and IBM AIX Power 4/5 processors and system architectures.

RADIOSS and OptiStruct provide H-MPP and SPMD parallelization using 3rd party MPIs and are Intel Cluster Ready compatible and certified.

NOTE:

2

HyperWorks 11.0 products have a minimum requirement of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 (version 8.0.50727.4053) and solidThinking/Inspired requires 2008 SP1 (version 9.0.21022.8) redistributable package and these runtimes are distributed within the HyperWorks package. Process Manager, HyperMath and ScriptView are native 32-bit applications that are supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms.

3

Only SMP parallelization is supported for HyperWorks 11.0 solvers on Windows (x86), Linux (x86) and Mac OS X (x86_64) architectures.

4

HyperWorks 11.0 Linux requirements (minimum versions):

Kernel version 2.6.9-42

GLIBC version 2.3.4 (glibc-2.3.4-2.25) – includes native and compatible 32-bit packages

GCC 3.4.3 (gcc 3.4.3 20050227) – includes native and compatible 32-bit packages

LIBF2C (libf2c-3.4.3-22.1 and compat-libf2c-3.4.3-22.1) – “Fortran G77/G95” runtimes

MotionSolve (HWSolvers) requirement: libgfortran-4.1.0-18.EL4 (32-bit/64-bit) or equivalent

LIBEXPAT – XML library

LIBSTDC++ packages:

NOTE: Altair bundles custom Tcl/Tk 8.5.6 packages with HyperWorks 11.0 and sets the environment variable XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 in the startup scripts, which may degrade GUI menu performance. To override this option set the variable XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=0 within the system’s or user’s environment.

Additional Linux library packages (minimum versions):

GNU BASH, version 3.00.15(1)-release

POSIX shared memory (for 3D applications)/ELF TLS (thread local storage) libraries

OpenGL packages/libraries (libGL 6.8.2-1, libGLU 6.8.2-1, etc.)

X-org 6.8.2 packages (or XFree86 equivalent) and OpenMotif – libX11, libXm.so.3, libXp.so.6, etc.

Vendor (NVIDIA or AMD/ATI) distributed OpenGL hardware accelerated driver packages

Kernel source/header files (used to compile 3D NVIDIA/AMD ATI OpenGL vendor driver modules)

Tools: rpm/fontconfig/freetype/zlib/gzip/tar/gtar

Gnome 2.6/KDE 3.3 window managers (or higher)

Fonts (scalable): Helvetica, Times, New Century schoolbook, b&h luxi sans/serif, typeface, bitstream vera    sans/serif, iso8859-1 (75dpi/100dpi) and Utopia

SDL 1.2.7-8 libraries to run Process Manager

NOTE: HyperWorks Enterprise Explore Dialog and Data Manager Browser are only supported on Windows platforms. HyperCrash does not support Linux 32-bit. HyperWorks 11.0 may install and run on other non-supported Linux distributions but Altair does not test, certify, verify or warrant the reliability of the products on these platforms

5

SGI ProPack 4 is available only for SGI Altix machines.

6

HyperMesh Batch, BatchMesher, Templex and the HyperGraph translator tools will be available in command line execution mode under the IBM AIX5.3 platforms.  HyperView translator tool will also be available on Linux Itanium platforms.  CAD formats for UG and CATIA v4/v5 data types are not supported under IBM AIX 5.3 for HyperMesh batch programs.  HyperXtrude GUI component is included under the HyperWorks GUI supported platforms only.

7

MotionSolve is not supported on IBM AIX platforms.

8

HyperXtrude Solver is not supported on Solaris platforms.

9

Minimum versions for OS X (kernel) and X11 support:

Unsupported HyperWorks products/features under the Mac OS X: HyperCrash, HyperStudy, MotionView, HyperMath/ScriptView, HvTrans batch mode, HyperView results math feature, HyperXtrude Solver, Process Manager Studio and Data Manager. Auto Process feature under the Manufacturing Solutions profile is not supported.

Unsupported third party CAD formats under the Mac OS X: UG and SolidWorks are not available data types.

HyperWorks Solvers: will only support SMP computations on the Mac OS X 10.6 Intel (x86_64) architecture for HyperWorks 11.0 and HyperXtrude Solver is not supported.

HyperWorks 11.0 under the Mac OS X operating system utilizes X11 for windowing and interfacing in combination with Open GL. X11 packages are required for running HyperWorks 11.0. Please reference the Install Guide or Help Files for “Running under Mac OS X”.

Licensing setup has been updated with the addition of iconized launch scripts from Finder under Mac OS X. Please reference the Install Guide for how to setup the license.