The following system requirements are necessary for installing, running and updating ALGOR software and managing your customer account online.

Microsoft Windows® Platform

Recommended*

• Dual Intel® Xeon™ or AMD Opteron™ Processor, 3 GHz or higher
• 2 GB RAM or higher (4 GB for MES and CFD applications)
• 30 GB of free disk space or higher
• 128 MB or higher OpenGL accelerated graphics card
• DVD-R drive
• x64 Microsoft Windows Operating System

Minimum

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• Internet Explorer 6
• 256 MB RAM (512 MB for Vista and x64 systems)
• 1.6 GB free disk space (additional 500 MB needed for installation)
• 64K color setting at 1024 x 768 desktop area

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft Vista™ (x86 and x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64)
• Microsoft Windows XP (x86 and x64)

Linux Platform

Recommended*

• Dual Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron Processor, 3 GHz or higher
• 2 GB RAM or higher (4 GB for MES and CFD applications)
• 30 GB of free disk space or higher
• 128 MB or higher OpenGL accelerated graphics card
• DVD-R drive

Minimum

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon Processor, 1.3 GHz
• 1 GB RAM
• 5 GB of free disk space
• CD-ROM drive

Supported Operating Systems

• Fedora Core 4 (i386 and x86_64)
• Fedora Core 5 (i386 and x86_64)
• Fedora Core 6 (i386 and x86_64)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v.4 (i386 and x86_64)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v.5 (i386 and x86_64)
• OpenSusSE 10.2 (i386 and x86_64)

HP-UX® Platform

Recommended*

• HP Integrity Computer with 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Processor or higher
• 4 GB RAM or higher
• 30 GB of free disk space or higher
• 128 MB or higher OpenGL accelerated graphics card
• DVD-R drive

Minimum

• HP 9000 Computer with PA-8000 Series (PA-RISC 2.0) Processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 5 GB of free disk space
• CD-ROM drive

Supported Operating Systems

• PA-RISC 2.0: HP-UX 11.00
• Itanium: HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)

• Mouse or pointing device
• Sound card and speakers**
• Internet connection**
• Web browser**

*   Recommended for Mechanical Event Simulation, CFD and Multiphysics analyses; also recommended for running larger models of any analysis type.

** These requirements are due to the increasing use of multimedia in our product line and the availability of distance learning Webcasts and Web Courses.