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Minimum System Requirements for QualNet Developer 3.9.5

CPU
  • x86 compatible (including Pentium, Xeon and Athlon)
  • amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and Pentium/Xeon EM64T)
  • Sun UltraSPARC family
  • Apple PowerPC G5
Operating System

Microsoft

  • Windows 2000/XP
  • Windows XP x64 Edition


UNIX

  • Linux
    • Red Hat 7.3, 9 and Fedora Core 2 for Intel x86
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linus Versions 3, 4 and SUSE Linux 9.1 on 64-bit platforms
    • Other distributions of Linux are known to work with QualNet
  • Sun Solaris 8
    • Sun Solaris 8
  • Apple
    • Mac OS X 10.4
Memory
  • 64 MB free for LAN-size simulations without GUI
  • 256 MB free for LAN-size simulations with GUI
  • 2-4 GB free for a large network (1000+ nodes)
Disk space
  • 300-500 MB free disk space depending on installation options
Java
  • Sun Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.2 is officially supported. This software is available as a free download from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html. The SDK, not the JRE, is required to run QualNet GUI tools.
  • Versions of Java from vendors other than Sun are not officially supported.
Compiler
  • Windows:
    • Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0(any edition) with Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 5 is required only if you modify source code or include add-ons.
  • UNIX(Linux / Solaris / MacOS):
    • The GCC version that matches your operating system in the table below is required to install QualNet:

Supported Compilers for Model Development:

  Windows Linux glibc 2.2.x Linux glibc 2.3.x Linux 64-bit glibc 2.3.x Solaris Mac OS X
msvc* √          
gcc 2.9x   √     √  
gcc 3.2     √      
gcc 3.3       √    
gcc 4.0           √

Linux users:
To determine your version of glibc, run the command 'rpm -q glibc'. glibc 2.3.2 is installed on Red Hat 9 by default, while 7.3 and 8.0 use 2.2.x. Mandrake versions 8.0-9.0 use glibc 2.2; 9.1 and higher use 2.3.x.

* Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (any edition) with Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 5 or later.



Recommended Systems


Windows
  • 3.2 GHz CPU
  • 512MB or 1GB memory
  • 500 MB free disk space
 Solaris
  • 1.5 GHz CPU
  • 512 MB or 1GB memory
  • 500 MB free disk space
Linux
  • 3.2 GHz CPU
  • 512MB or 1GB memory
  • 500 MB free disk space
 MacOS
  • 2.0 GHz CPU
  • 512 MB or 1GB memory
  • 500 MB free disk space


3D Visualizer Requirements

Windows
  • 3.2 GHz CPU
  • 1GB memory
  • 3D Graphics card with 128 MB memory (Tested on Nvidia and ATI)
  • 1024*768 screen resolution


For system requirements of earlier versions of QualNet, please click here.