The tables below show the minimum, budget, and high-end system and hardware requirements for workstations and laptops necessary to achieve maximum performance with Autodesk Inventor Nastran and Autodesk Nastran. There are no special hardware requirements for the Nastran products beyond those imposed by Windows.
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Windows Operating System (desktop workstations or laptops) |
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit (Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions), Windows 8 / 8.1 64-bit (Basic, Pro, or Enterprise editions), Windows 10 64-bit (Home, Pro, Enterprise, or Education editions)
Note: 32-bit (x86) versions of Windows are NOT supported.
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Linux Operating System (Autodesk Nastran only) |
RedHat or CentOS 7 or 7+, glibc 2.17 or 2.17+
libstdc++/compat-libstdc++ 5.3.1 or 5.3.1+ |
| Network Card | Required for network installation with FlexLM licensing for all workstations or laptops. |
The Linux version of Autodesk Nastran is built on CentOS 7. We recommend you use version 7 or newer of this Linux distribution. This release will also work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 versions. Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 has been discontinued.
Autodesk Nastran may work on other Linux distributions which are not officially supported. On other Linux distributions, binary compatibility of Autodesk Nastran requires that a specific version, or greater, of two core system components be installed. These system components are the glibc library and the libstdc++ library. The version of the libstdc++ library is usually tied to the version of gcc on your system. Additionally, newer Linux distributions may have moved the required libstdc++ libraries to a "compat-libstdc++" package. Please consult your distribution's documentation to learn how to determine the versions you have installed. Alternatively, websites such as http://www.distrowatch.org maintain databases of the versions of components available with specific distributions. The table below summarizes the requirements.
We recommend you upgrade to the latest stable version of Linux. The improvements in performance, security, and reliability may be beneficial - even if you only use Autodesk Nastran occasionally. Installation requires a number of standard system utilities such as gzip, tar, sed, grep, and bash which are most likely installed by default on your system. If you find these are missing, please ask your system administrator to install.
Desktop Workstation Specifications:
| Minimum Workstation | Budget Workstation | High-End Workstation | |
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| Computer, CPU | Intel Pentium or AMD based | Intel Core i5/i7 – Dual or Quad Core at high clock speed | Dual Intel Xeon Quad-core CPUs at high clock speed (3.5+ GHz). or single Xeon 8-core CPU at high clock speed (2.8+ GHz) |
| Memory, RAM | 2 GB | 8 GB | 32 GB+ |
| Graphics Card | 256 MB workstation video card | 1GB dedicated video card | 2+GB NVIDIA Quadro K4000 or similar |
| Hard Disk | 40 GB free space | 1 TB SATA 7200RPM and 256GB SSD for temp files | 2 TB 7200 SATA for file storage and 512 GB SSD for temp files
Note: High write speed is critical (at least 400MB/sec is good) |
Laptop Specifications:
| Minimum Laptop | Budget Laptop | High-End Laptop | |
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| Computer, CPU | Intel Pentium or AMD based | Intel Core i5 – Dual or Quad Core at high clock speed | Intel Core i7 – Dual or Quad Core at high clock speed |
| Memory, RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB | 16 GB+ |
| Graphics Card | 256 MB workstation video card | 1 GB dedicated video card | 2+ GB NVIDIA or equivalent ATI |
| Hard Disk | 40 GB free space | 1 TB SATA 7200RPM | 512 GB or 1 TB SSD
Note: High write speed is critical (at least 400 MB/sec is good) |
There are many types of hardware that will allow you to use Inventor Nastran and Autodesk Nastran. Proper choice of hardware, however, can often make the difference between frustration and productivity. Here are a few suggestions: