Operating System
- Microsoft� Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later, Microsoft� Windows Vista, Microsoft� Windows 7, Microsoft� Windows 8 or Microsoft� Windows 10, 32- and 64-bit versions
- With a 64 bit operating system, the SAPFire� Analytical Engine can utilize more than 4 GB of RAM, making it possible to more efficiently solve larger problems
Processor
- Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64
- Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better
- A CPU that has SSE2 support is required
- The SAPFire� Analytical Engine includes a multi-threaded solver that can take advantage of multi-core CPUs
Memory
- Minimum: 2 GB for XP O / S, 4 GB for Vista / Windows 7 O / S
- Recommended: 4 GB for 32-bit O / S, 8 GB or more for 64-bit O / S
- The problem size that can be solved & the solution speed increases considerably with more RAM
- Vista / Windows 7 requires more RAM than XP for the operating system itself
Disk Space
- 6 GB to install the software.
- Recommended: 500GB or larger Hard Disk Drive (7200 rpm SATA)
- Additional space required for running and storing model files and analysis results, dependent upon the size of the models
Video Card
- Minimum: Supporting 1024 by 768 resolution and 16 bits colors for standard (GDI +) graphics mode
- Recommended: Discrete video card with NVIDIA GPU or equivalent and dedicated graphics RAM (512 Mb or larger) for DirectX graphics mode. The card must be DirectX 11 Compatible.
- DirectX graphics mode fully utilizes the hardware acceleration provided by a GPU and dedicated graphics RAM.
- For better graphics quality in terms of anti-aliasing and line thickness, the device raster drawing capabilities should support legacy depth bias.