EMA Software - MHarness - v3.2.2 - System Requirements

MHarness v3.2.2 system requirements for UNIX
MHarness v3.2.2 system requirements for Windows
Notes
Application-Specific Requirements

MHarness v3.2.2 System Requirements - UNIX

Some system requirements are platform-specific, others are common to all variants of UNIX.

SUN Solaris

The SUN Solaris version of MHarness is prepared on a SUN Ultra60 running Solaris 8.

Hardware Platform

	minimum	recommended
processor	SUN SPARC family processor

Software Platform

	minimum	recommended
operating system	Solaris 8

SGI IRIX

The SGI IRIX version of MHarness is prepared on an SGI Octane running IRIX 6.5.20.

Hardware Platform

	minimum	recommended
processor	SGI MIPS processor

Software Platform

	minimum	recommended
operating system	SGI IRIX 6.5.x

UNIX (all)

Hardware Platform

	minimum	recommended
hard disk space (installation)	45 MB
hard disk space (user)*	1 GB
system memory**	64MB minimum	128MB - 256MB
swap file size	appropriately proportional to system memory (for example, 100% to 150% of system memory size is one commonly used rule of thumb)
graphics card/display***	no graphics card or display requirement

Software Platform

	minimum	recommended
graphics card/display***	no graphics requirement

MHarness v3.2.2 System Requirements - Windows

Hardware Platform

	minimum	recommended
processor	Intel x86-family processor
hard disk space (installation)	45 MB
hard disk space (user)*	1 GB
system memory**	64MB	128MB - 256MB
swap file size	appropriately proportional to system memory (for example, 100% to 150% of system memory size is one commonly used rule of thumb)
graphics card/display	no graphics card or display requirement

Software Platform

	minimum	recommended
operating system	Windows NT4SP6a, 2000 or XP
graphics system***	no graphics requirement

Notes:

*user disk space:

Most MHarness problems require relatively little user disk space for the problem files. 1 GB is probably more than enough; more should be allowed if you wish to run very large MHarness problems or store data for multiple runs or many MHarness problems.

**system memory:

System memory requirements can vary depending on the MHarness problem you are solving. Most MHarness problems will take much less space in memory than the minimum mentioned. However, you may want to have enough memory for multiple MHarness jobs, very large jobs, etc.

***graphics:

There is no particular graphics requirement for running MHarness itself. Graphics considerations should be based on whatever data-plotting program you wish to use for viewing MHarness results, which can be viewed with any data-plotting program of the user's choice. The free "gnuplot" that is included, has very basic graphics requirements, and is adaptable to many terminal types. If some other third-party plotting package is being used to plot/visualize result waveforms, the graphics requirements for that package should be considered.

Application-Specific Requirements:

As noted above, system memory and disk space requirements can vary depending on the types of MHarness problems you wish to solve. The above information is intended to be general advice that should cover most situations. If you would like additional advice on suggested system requirements for your particular application, please feel free to contact us.

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