Hardware Configuration

Supported Platforms

For macOS and Rocky Linux recommended hardware, see the Flame Family system requirements.

Supported Operating Systems

Flame Family 2027 supports the following operating systems:

macOS

• macOS Sonoma (14.x)
• macOS Sequoia (15.x)
• macOS Tahoe (26.x)

Rocky Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.10
• Rocky Linux 9.5
• Rocky Linux 9.7

Rocky Linux 9.7 Support

All qualified workstations supporting Rocky Linux 9.5 now support Rocky Linux 9.7, which contains minor fixes and security updates. For more information, see the Rocky Linux release notes.

The Rocky Linux 9.7 installation is similar to Rocky Linux 9.5. Follow the steps found in the Flame Help to install the update. An upgrade script from Rocky Linux 9.3/9.5 to 9.7 is available.

AWS Base AMI

The AWS base AMI has been updated to the following:

• Rocky Linux 9.7
• DKU 21.0.0
• NVIDIA driver 580.126.09
• EFA: 1.47.0
• Support for AWS G7e Instances (g7e.8xlarge). For more information, visit the AWS website.
  • The G7e instances use NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with 96 GB of VRAM and 1.85x faster GPU memory bandwidth compared to G6e instances. G7e instances deliver up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e instances. For more information, visit the NVIDIA website.

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Application Configuration

Components

Flame Family products use the following key components.

Components	OS	2026	2027
Python	All	3.11.5	3.13.3
Qt	All	6.5.2	6.8.3
PySide	All	6.5.2	6.8.3
OpenEXR	All	3.2.4	3.4
OpenColorIO	All	2.4.2	2.5.1
OpenTimelineIO	All	N/A	0.18.1
Alembic	All	1.7.3	1.7.3
FBX	All	2020.3.2	2020.3.3

Default Web Browser

The Default Web Browser option has been removed from the Setup application and init.cfg file. Flame now uses the default web browser set at the OS level when a web page is opened from within the application.