Supported Hardware Platforms
| Architecture | Operating System | |
|---|---|---|
| Itanium II | HP-UX V11 / LINUX | |
| PA-RISC | HP-UX V11 | |
| POWER-n | AIX 5.3 / LINUX | |
| PC x86 | LINUX / Windows XP |
The supported platforms and the related operating systems are always subject to change due to ongoing development activities and new computers on the market.
The functions described in this document are usually available on all platforms. Nevertheless, some exceptions are certainly possible (i.e. with parallelization, CFD coupling, interfaces to third-party products using program libraries (like H3D, VLAB), etc.).
PERMAS fully supports 64 Bit architecture of modern processors. So, the following execution modes are available:
- D32
- Double precision floating point operations on 32 Bit machine words with a memory usage of about 2 GB.
- D64
- Double precision floating point operations on 32 Bit machine words with a memory usage of about 7 to 8 GB.
- S64
- Single precision floating point operations on 64 Bit machine words with a practically unlimited memory usage (recommended minimum is 16 GB).
