System Requirements for Linux

General Requirements

These requirements are common to all platforms:

• A DVD drive for installation.
• TCP/IP activated
• 1 GB memory, preferably more
• 1-4 GB of disk space, depending on your licensed products and installation options
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 or later to view and print the COMSOL documentation in PDF format

Floating Network Licenses

Floating network licenses are supported on heterogeneous networks of Windows, Linux, and Mac computers. Both the license manager and the COMSOL application can run on either Windows, Linux, or Mac, and a single computer can run both of them.

COMSOL Multiphysics System Requirements for Linux

System Requirements for 32-bit Linux

• GNU C Library version 2.3.6 or later
• Linux kernel 2.6.18 or later
• Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor or later.

System Requirements for 64-bit Linux

• GNU C Library version 2.3.6 or later
• Linux kernel 2.6.18 or later
• A PC with one of these processors: AMD with AMD64 or Intel with EM64T.

Officially Supported Linux Distributions

The following Linux distributions are officially supported by COMSOL.

Graphics System Requirements

Prefer hardware rendering for performance reasons. Drivers supporting OpenGL version 1.3 are required. Alternatively, use software rendering.

Optional LiveLink for MATLAB Requirements

The LiveLink for MATLAB is compatible with MATLAB 2009b and 2010a.

Optional Products for CAD Interoperability

The following products support import of 3D CAD files on Linux platforms:

Parallel System Requirements

COMSOL supports shared-memory parallelism and distributed-memory parallelism for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux. For distributed-memory parallelism, COMSOL supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and all computers in the cluster must use the same Linux version and should have similar hardware.

Internet Protocol Support

IPv4 and IPv6 are supported on all Linux platforms.