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System Requirements

V2024 Compliant OS

OS(64bit) Windows Windows 10, Windows 11 (Verified by version 21H2, 22H2)
Windows Server 2022
Linux*1 RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 (Verified by 8.8)
RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 (Verified by 9.2)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (Verified by SP4 and SP5)
CPU 64bit (AMD64 / Intel64)およびAArch64(ARM64)*2
Memory 8GB or more; depends on the number of elements
HDD 10GB for installation
Graphics Graphics card that supports OpenGL for Preprocessor/Postprocessor

  • scFLOW
Approx. size of analysis Memory Approx. 5 million elements / 15.2GB
Maximum number of elements (actual) 1830 million
Maximum degree of parallelism (actual) 36864
Compiler Environment
(User defined function)
Windows edition*3 Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
Linux edition

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) (Linux standard)

Linux ARM edition

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) (Linux standard)

MPI Library Windows edition Intel® MPI Library 2021 Update 10 or 2018 Update 5*4
Linux edition Intel® MPI Library 2021 Update 10 or 2019 Update 11*4
Linux ARM edition OpenMPI 4.1.5


- scSTREAM / HeatDesigner

Approx. size of analysis Memory Approx. 5 million elements / 7GB
Maximum number of elements 2 billion
Maximum degree of parallelism (actual) 36864*5
Compiler Environment
(User defined function)
Windows edition Intel Fortran Compiler Classic and Intel Fortran Compiler for Windows 2024.1
Linux edition GFortran (GNU Fortran compiler) (Linux standard)
MPI Library Windows edition Intel® MPI Library 2021 Update 10 or 2018 Update 5*4
Linux edition Intel® MPI Library 2021 Update 10 or 2019 Update 11*4


For current and future supported platforms for Hexagon's suite of CAE products go to: https://hexagon.com/support-success/manufacturing-intelligence/design-engineering-support/platform-support (or successor URL)

*1) [scFLOW and SC/Tetra] Only compliant with Solver, Monitor, and Meshing function of Preprocessor.
     [scSTREAM] Only compliant with Solver and Monitor. Not available for HeatDesigner.
*2)  Only scFLOW Solver and Meshing function of Preprocessor for Linux are supported. Certified CPU (plan) : Fujitsu A64FX, Ampere Altra, AWS Graviton3, Certified OS (plan) : RedHat Enterprise Linux 8
*3) Verified with Windows SDK (10.0.22621.0).
*4) Use Intel-MPI packaged in Cradle products. This version is bundled with Intel MPI 2021 Update 10 and Intel MPI 2018 Update 5(Windows), Intel MPI 2019 Update 10(Linux). We recommend you use Intel MPI 2021 Update 10. When activating on multiple machines, we recommend you use it under the environment that meets the Intel® MPI Library system requirements available at https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mpi-library-release-notes (or successor URL).
*5) Actual record with parallelism in a subdomain (Upper limit of the number of subdomains is 4096). The maximum number of parallel for the Heat Designer Solver is 4 (the maximum parallel in a region is 2 and the maximum parallel in a subdomain is 2).

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