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Minimum System Requirements for QualNet Developer 3.7 & 3.8

CPU
  • Intel Pentium class or AMD K5, K6, or Athlon
  • Sun UltraSPARC family
Operating System

Microsoft

  • Windows 2000/XP


UNIX

  • Linux
    • Red Hat 7.3, 9 and Fedora Core 2 for Intel x86
    • Other distributions of Linux are known to work with QualNet
  • Sun Solaris 8
    • Sun Solaris 8
Memory
  • 64 MB free for LAN-size simulations without GUI
  • 128 MB free for LAN-size simulations with GUI
Disk space
  • 100-300 MB free disk space depending on installation options
Java
  • Sun Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.0 through 1.4.0_04 are officially supported. (Java 1.4.1 and higher currently are not officially supported and may have various issues with the QualNet GUI tools, such as missing functionality or increased memory usage. Versions of Java from vendors other than Sun also are not officially supported.) is officially supported. This software is available as a free download from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.0/download.html
  • 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):
    • 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 Solaris
msvc* √      
gcc 2.9x   √   √
gcc 3.2     √  

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