ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
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We are in process of buying a new workstation mainly for running ABAQUS. We intend to have 8Gb Ram so we need a 64bit OS.
I have no experience related to ABAQUS running on 64bit machines. I checked the ABAQUS web-page and it seems Windows 64bit (both XP and Vista) are supported.
http://www .simulia.c om/support /v67/v67_s ysRqmts.ht ml#platTbl
Any recommendation from people having experience with running ABAQUS on a 64-bit workstation/OS will be greatly appreciated.
I have no experience related to ABAQUS running on 64bit machines. I checked the ABAQUS web-page and it seems Windows 64bit (both XP and Vista) are supported.
http://www
Any recommendation from people having experience with running ABAQUS on a 64-bit workstation/OS will be greatly appreciated.





RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
I am running ABAQUS on a 64 bit IBM (Dual Opteron) workstation with 8GB memory. I am using SUSE Linux 9.3 operating system. Runs beautifully no problems in las 2 years.
Gurmeet
RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
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Thanks a lot. Is it Windows 64 bit - XP or Vista?
Could you tell what version of ABAQUS have you been running on Windows-64bit?
Best.
RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
Not sure if that the case in 64 bit manchine thou.
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Rob Stupplebeen
RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
It seems that yet again Microsoft demonstrates it's arrogance by favouring it's own graphics system and penalising users (=the whole FE and CAD communities) of the dominant free open system.
RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
ABAQUS (Dassault) does not mention anything about using an emulator for CAE. Could you detail on that ?
I do not like Vista either, for example I found it absurd for an OS to require so much RAM memory. Anyway, the problem is XP is a 6 year old OS, and probably MS will tend to support it less.
RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
It's not CAE that uses an emulator, it's the actual operating system itself (i.e. Vista) that has to run an emulator for OpenGL based graphics programs. This is an issue that caused quite a stir amongst the CAD vendors when it first became known, most of which are hurriedly re-writing their graphic interfaces to cope with Vista. I'm not saying that Vista won't run Abaqus/CAE, it will, but install XP 64 on the same machine and you are almost guaranteed better performance.
RE: ABAQUS on XP64bit/Vista 64bit Editions
http://www.opengl.org/pipeline/article/vol003_9/
Provided that the likes of NVIDIA and ATI provide good ICD's in their driver software, the performance should be comparable to XP. If the vendors don't provide an ICD, then the application will revert to software OpenGL - this is no different in XP.
Vista uses an extra emulation layer between the GPU and the application that disn't exist in XP - the Desktop Window Manager (DWM).
Regards
Martin Stokes CEng MIMechE
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