Hardware & Software Requirements

This document is provided as a guideline regarding hardware configurations, operating system and operating system patches recommended for the use with CATIA Version 5 Release 17.

Important Notice on AIX 5.2 Support

Version 5 Release 17 is the last release to support AIX 5.2. Because end of support (EOS) for AIX V5.2 is September 1, 2007, customers installing CATIA V5.17 are encouraged to migrate to AIX V5.3.

Important Notice on Solaris 8 Support

Version 5 Release 17 will be the last release to support SUN Solaris 8, customers currently running on Solaris 8 are encouraged to migrate to Solaris 10

All Platforms

Recommended Memory

256 MB of RAM is the minimum recommended amount of memory for all applications. 512 MB of RAM is recommended for ENOVIA DMU applications on large assemblies, and for the Digitized Shape Editor 2 product. Requirements may be greater when large amount of data are used.

Windows 2000 / Windows XP

Operating System

Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4, or higher is required, or Windows XP Professional SP1 or SP2, with following components:
- Windows 2000, and Windows XP deliver an implementation of OpenGL libraries. Dassault Systemes will provide recommendations related to driver levels based on certified configurations at URL: http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/windows/certified-workstations-list/. These drivers may offer a CATIA Version 5 application setting (see Control Panel, Display Properties tabs), which should be selected when available, as they may contain application specific features.
- Localized version of the operating system may be required when selected installation locale differs from Latin1
Note : Version 5 Release 17 will be the last release to support Windows 2000 Professional Edition

Certified and Derived Configurations

Please follow the link to the dedicated page of the program directory.

Windows 64-bit

Operating System

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, with following components:
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition delivers an implementation of OpenGL libraries. Dassault Systemes will provide recommendations related to driver levels based on certified configurations at URL: http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/windows/certified-workstations-list/. These drivers may offer a CATIA Version 5 application setting (see Control Panel, Display Properties tabs), which should be selected when available, as they may contain application specific features.

32-bit CATIA V5

Although those Version 5 products are 32-bit applications, they will be able to allocate up to 4GB of Memory when running on this operating system.
- KB903648 : When using macro and VBScript features, V5 may crash when accessing more than 2GB of address space, a Microsoft patch is correcting this problem , see Microsoft Article : KB903648 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903648.
- KB911021 : required for applications allowing more than 2GB of address space . please contact your Microsoft support representative.

64-bit CATIA V5

No required patches
Note : For a 64-bit process, memory consumption is completely different than for a 32-bit process. In this conditions, it is not pertinent to compare the « Virtual Bytes » counter of Perfmon between 32-bit process and 64-bit process. Although this counter is important to track for a 32-bit process because the global address space is limited to 4 GB including reserved virtual memory, for 64-bit process, virtual address space can reach 8 TB.
Known issues : When Japanese locales are used, console output will be corrupted at first Japanese character display, the "cout << " does not print any character after. This is a Microsoft CRT 8.0 bug and should be fixed by Microsoft.

32 and 64-bit CATIA V5 Certified configurations

Please follow the link to the dedicated page of the program directory.

IBM AIX

Operating System

AIX 5.2 Maintenance Level 07 (using 64-bit kernel) with following components:
- XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0.0 Run-time Environment :
  - XL 7 May 2005 PTF R/T (xlC.aix50.rte at level 7.0.0.6) , delivered trough APAR IY71976
- XL Fortran Enterprise Edition V9.1.0 for AIX Run-Time
  - November 2004 XL Fortran for AIX V9.1 Runtime PTF (available at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24008377)
AIX 5.3 Maintenance Level 03 (using 64-bit kernel) with following components:
- XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0.0 Run-time Environment :
  - XL 7 May 2005 PTF R/T (xlC.aix50.rte at level 7.0.0.6) , delivered trough APAR IY71976
- XL Fortran Enterprise Edition V9.1.0 for AIX Run-Time
  - November 2004 XL Fortran for AIX V9.1 Runtime PTF (available at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24008377)
- IBM eServer P5 Server Support and IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 support requires AIX 5.3 ML03, with the above recommendations for R17.
- Note : AIX 5.3 ML03 is supported on Power 4 and Power 5 based system only.
- IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 support requires AIX 5.3 ML03, with the above recommendations for R17.
Note :
- Version 5 Release 15 is the last release to support AIX 5.1
- Version 5 Release 17 will be the last release to support AIX 5.2

List of configurations certified with CATIA Version 5 is available at http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/unix/unix-based-workstations/

HP-UX

Operating System

HP-UX 11.11 with:
Support of C8000 workstation with serial ports activated requires the following patches :
- PHKL_30446
- PHKL_30447
- PHNE_30463

Support of C8000 workstation with ATI Fire GL X3-256 requires HPUX 11i (or 11.11) v1.0 with following bundles and patches:

HP-UX 11i TCOE June 2004 (Core OS)

GOLDAPPS11i Gold Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, June 2004

GOLDBASE11i Gold Base Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, June 2004

HWEnable11i Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, June 2004

PHSS_30968 ld(1) and linker tools cumulative patch

PHSS_31270 3D Common Run (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_31271 PEX 5.1/Starbase/Hardcopy Run (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_31274 Starbase/Hardware Dev (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_31275 OpenGL 1.1 Dev (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_31276 OpenGL 1.1 Run (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_31281 Xserver cumulative patch

PHSS_32185 C8000 PDC 2.12, BMC 2,32 Firmware patch

PHCO_33360 libc cumulative patch

PHSS_28880 HP aC++ -AA runtime libraries (aCC A.03.50)

PHKL_33258 VxFS cumulative patch; ml_flag race

Support of Fire GL X1 / T2/ X3-256 requires the following customization :
- uncomment the option "AccelerateIndirectRendering" "false" in file /etc/X11/XF86Config to avoid graphic corruption.
- add the following options in Device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config to avoid graphic performance degradation when floating menus are in the screen :
  - Option "DefaultVisualTrueColor" "True"
  - Option "TrueColorOverlay" "True"
  Notes: these 2 last options brings a known regression (graphic corruption) in capturing image in screen mode.
HP 11iv1 (11.11) December 2004 support requires:
- HP-UX Technical Computing OE Component December 2004
- Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2004
- Gold Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2004
- Gold Base Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2004
- With following patches applied :
- PHCO_31923 : libc cumulative header file patch
- PHCO_33360 : libc cumulative patch
- PHKL_31918 : fsadm;ACL;locking order;8K mount;readdir
- PHNE_32477 : ONC/NFS General Release/Performance Patch
- PHSS_29483 : HP aC++ Compiler (A.03.52)
- PHSS_31271 : PEX 5.1/Starbase/Hardcopy Run (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_31274 : Starbase/Hardcopy Dev (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_31275 : OpenGL 1.1 Dev (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_32573 : HP aC++ -AA runtime libraries (aCC A.03.61)
- PHSS_32928 : 3D Common Run (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_32934 : OpenGL 1.1 Run (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_32939 : Xserver cumulative patch
- PHSS_33033 : ld(1) and linker tools cumulative patch

List of configurations certified with CATIA Version 5 is available at http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/unix/unix-based-workstations/

SGI IRIX

Operating System

IRIX 6.5.15m (C, C++ and Fortran runtime environments, at level 7.3.1, are delivered with the operating system as well as OpenGL runtime environment) plus following recommended patches :
- patch 4848 Poor network performance with ef interface on machines with fast cpus
- patch 4815 libexc Update
- VPro graphics adapter requires following patch:
  - patch 4674 VPro graphics limited-release bug fixes for Irix 6.5.15m and Irix 6.5.15f
- In addition, support of Fuel Visual Workstations requires following patch :
  - patch 4695 IP35 6.5.15m PROM/kernel rollup/R14KA support

Onyx 3000 Series with InfinitePerformance Graphics are supported with IRIX 6.5.16m plus following patch:
- patch 4731 VPro updates for 6.5.16
- patch 4848 Poor network performance with ef interface on machines with fast cpus
- patch 4815 libexc Update
Support of Tezro workstation requires IRIX 6.5.21m with following patches:
- patch 5322 Non-C99 Catia patch for libc.so 6.5.21m
- patch 5330 IP35 kernel/PROM fixes for IRIX 6.5.21m
Support of Fuel 800 MHz workstation requires IRIX 6.5.23m :
- C, C++ and Fortran runtime environments, at level 7.4.1m, are delivered with the operating system as well as OpenGL runtime environment
- In addition to the Operating System base features the following list of patches must be installed :
  - patch 3131: 7.2.1 base compiler runtime environment for IRIX 6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5
  - patch 3140: 7.2.1 FORTRAN runtime for IRIX 6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5 - REQUIRED FOR F90
  - patch 3161: MIPSpro 7.2.1 Fortran77 Front-End
  - patch 3172: 7.2.1 Compiler Linker on IRIX 6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5
  - patch 3188: MIPSpro 7.2.1 C++ startup
  - patch 3398: MIPSpro 7.2.1 C++ front-end Upgrade #3
  - patch 4160: Strip update for MIPSpro 7.2.1
  - patch 3139: libmp rollup
  - patch 3458: rld rollup #15

List of configurations certified with CATIA Version 5 is available at http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/unix/unix-based-workstations/.

SUN Solaris

Operating System

Solaris 8 HW 05/03 minimum (includes C and C++ runtime environments; Fortran runtime environment is delivered with CATIA V5), with OpenGL 1.2.3 with following recommended packages and patches.
- Recommended packages
  - SUNWlibC SPARCompilers Bundled libC
  - SUNWglrt OpenGL for Solaris Runtime Libraries
  - SUNWbtool CCS tools bundled with SunOS
  - SUNWxwoft X Window system optional fonts 6.4.1
- Solaris 8 HW 05/03 with following patches :
  - 108652-83 Xsun
  - 112628-29 OpenGL 1.2.3
  - XVR-600 graphics adapter requires OpenGL 1.3 minimum with following recommended patches (XVR-1200 is also supported with this configuration) :
    - 114554-12 XVR1200 Graphics Accelerator patch
    - 113886-22 OpenGL 1.3 patch
    - 108940-68 Motif2.1
- Sun Blade 1500+ (1.5GHz) requires Solaris 8 02/04 and OpenGL 1.3 with following patches :
  - 114554-12 XVR1200 Graphics Accelerator patch
  - 113886-26 OpenGL 1.3 patch
  - 108652-83 Xsun
  - 108940-68 Motif2.1
Notes :
- Elite3D M3 graphic adapter is not supported on Ultra10 except on Ultra10/440 MHz.
Solaris 10 SPARC Operating System Release 03/05 is supported on Sun Blade 1500, 2500 or 1500+, with XVR1200 or XVR600 graphic adapters.

Known issues :
- On Solaris 8 and 10, the Ctrl Key does not invoke the appropriate actions. This is a SUN Motif 2.1 problem and will be fixed by a SUN Motif 2.1 patch.
- On Solaris 10, when using Scrollbar for Multi-lists, users may encounters coredumps . This is a SUN Motif 2.1 problem and will be fixed by a SUN Motif 2.1 patch

List of configurations certified with CATIA Version 5 is available at http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/unix/unix-based-workstations/.