QualNet System Requirements
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Minimum System Requirements for QualNet Developer

CPU
  • x86 compatible (including Intel Core, Pentium, Xeon and AMD Athlon)
  • amd64 compatible (including AMD Opteron, Athlon 64, and Intel Core 2, Pentium/Xeon with EM64T)
  • Sun UltraSPARC family
  • IBM PowerPC family
Operating System
  • Microsoft Windows
    • Windows 2000/XP
    • Windows XP x64 Edition
  • Linux
    • Fedora Core 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, SUSE Linux Versions 9.3, 10.1, and Ubuntu 6.06 are officially supported on amd64 and x86 compatible systems
    • Other distributions of Linux with GNU C Library (glibc) version 2.3 are known to work with QualNet
  • Sun Solaris
    • Solaris 10 on UltraSPARC systems
  • Apple Mac OS
    • Mac OS X 10.4 on PowerPC and Intel systems
Memory
  • 64 MB free for LAN-size simulations without GUI
  • 256 MB free for LAN-size simulations with GUI
  • 2-4 GB free for a large network (1000+ nodes)
Disk space
  • 300-500 MB free disk space depending on installation options
Video
  • A 3D graphics card is required to run the QualNet 3D Visualizer.
Java
  • Sun Java JKD 5.0 (also called version 1.5) The NetBeans or EE editions will also work.

The SDK, not the JRE, is required to run QualNet GUI. ( Note: JDK 6.0 will not work.)

Compiler
    • Windows: To compile QualNet source code or custom addons, one of the following C++ compilers is required:
      • Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2002 (VC7)
      • Micorsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 (VC7)
      • Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 (VC7)
      • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (VC8)
      • Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (VC8 Express)

    To use Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, Windows Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2 must also be installed. Both Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and Windows Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2 are available as free downloads.

    • UNIX(Linux / Solaris / MacOS):
      • The GCC version that matches your operating system in the table below is required to compile QualNet:

Supported Compilers for Model Development:

  Windows XP Windows x64 Linux glibc 2.3.x Linux 64-bit glibc 2.3.x Solaris Mac OS X (10.4.x) PowerPC Mac OS X (10.4.x) Intel
VC8 Express √ √
VC7 √
VC8 √ √
gcc 3.2 √
gcc 3.3 √
gcc 3.4 √ √
gcc 4.0 √ √ √ √
LAM √ √
IBGD √

Linux users:
To determine your version of glibc, run the command 'rpm -q glibc'. glibc 2.3.2 is installed on Red Hat 9 by default, while 7.3 and 8.0 use 2.2.x. Mandrake versions 8.0-9.0 use glibc 2.2; 9.1 and higher use 2.3.x.



Recommended Systems


Windows
  • 3.2 GHz CPU
  • 512MB or 1GB memory
  • 500 MB free disk space
 Solaris
  • 1.5 GHz CPU
  • 512 MB or 1GB memory
  • 500 MB free disk space
Linux
  • 3.2 GHz CPU
  • 512MB or 1GB memory
  • 500 MB free disk space
 MacOS
  • 2.0 GHz CPU
  • 512 MB or 1GB memory
  • 500 MB free disk space


3D Visualizer Requirements

 
  • CPU
    • Pentium 4: 3.2 GHz
    • 32-bit AMD: 2.4 GHz
    • Any AMD 64-bit
    • Any Intel Core Duo (or newer)
  • 1GB memory
  • 3D Graphics card with 128 MB memory (Tested on Nvidia and ATI)
  • 1024x768 screen resolution


For system requirements of earlier versions of QualNet, please click here.