FLAMES® System Requirements

FLAMES is available on Windows® and Linux® . As a result, there is a good chance that FLAMES will run on the computers you already have. Perhaps more importantly, the source code to the custom FLAMES-based applications that you develop on one type of computer is portable to another, usually without modification.

The sections below list the system requirements for each computer type.

Microsoft Windows

Linux


Windows Workstations
FLAMES Version
8.1

System Requirements for FLAMES Runtime Products

Category

System Requirements

Operating System

Microsoft® Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, Windows Vista®

CPU

Intel® or compatible processor; 2.0 GHz or faster recommended

Memory

1.0 GB minimum recommended

Disk Space

1.0 GB minimum available disk space required

Graphics

Graphics card to support or accelerate OpenGL® graphics at 1280 x 1024 true color

Networking

Hardware: Network interface card

Software: TCP/IP protocol suite

Peripherals

CD drive for installation

Additional Software for Online Help

Microsoft HTML Help Viewer version 1.2 or later and Internet Explorer® version 5.0 or later

Additional Requirements for FLAMES Modules

Enhanced 3D Module: Graphics card with a minimum of 128 MB texture memory and support for OpenGL 1.2 or higher

HLA Module: DMSO RTI1.3NG-V6

Multithreading Module: Performance improvements will be realized only on computers with two or more cores/processors.

Additional Requirements for FLAMES Development Products

C or C++ development environment (compiler, debugger, etc.) compatible with Visual Studio® 2005.

Linux Workstations
FLAMES Version
8.1

System Requirements for FLAMES Runtime Products

Category

System Requirements

Operating System

Linux Fedora™ Core 5

CPU

Intel or compatible processor; 2.0 GHz or faster recommended

Memory

1.0 GB minimum recommended

Disk Space

1.0 GB minimum available disk space required

Graphics

Graphics card to support or accelerate OpenGL graphics at 1280 x 1024 true color

Networking

Hardware: Network interface card

Software: TCP/IP protocol suite; NFS required for networked configurations

Peripherals

CD drive for installation

Additional Software for Online Help

Firefox® 1.5.0.12 Browser (or later) for the Linux OE required

Additional Requirements for FLAMES Development Products

C or C++ development environment (compiler, debugger, etc.); FLAMES products were developed using gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat® Linux 4.1.1-51) development tools.