Altair Simulation 2022.2

Platform Support

Updated: 11/29/2022

Contents
Intellectual Property Rights Notice.............................................................................iii
Technical Support............................................................................................................vii
Platform Support.............................................................................................................. 9
Altair Simulation Products.................................................................................................11
Platforms Added in Altair Simulation 2022.2....................................................................... 12
Platforms Dropped in Altair Simulation 2022.2.................................................................... 13
Minimum Operating System Requirements..........................................................................14
Linux System Requirements..............................................................................................162

Intellectual Property Rights Notice
Copyright © 1986-2022 Altair Engineering Inc. All Rights Reserved.
This Intellectual Property Rights Notice is exemplary, and therefore not exhaustive, of intellectual
property rights held by Altair Engineering Inc. or its affiliates. Software, other products, and materials
of Altair Engineering Inc. or its affiliates are protected under laws of the United States and laws ofother jurisdictions. In addition to intellectual property rights indicated herein, such software, otherproducts, and materials of Altair Engineering Inc. or its affiliates may be further protected by patents,
additional copyrights, additional trademarks, trade secrets, and additional other intellectual property
rights. For avoidance of doubt, copyright notice does not imply publication. Copyrights in the below areheld by Altair Engineering Inc. or its affiliates. Additionally, all non-Altair marks are the property of theirrespective owners.
This Intellectual Property Rights Notice does not give you any right to any product, such as software,or underlying intellectual property rights of Altair Engineering Inc. or its affiliates. Usage, for example,of software of Altair Engineering Inc. or its affiliates is governed by and dependent on a valid license
agreement.

Altair Simulation Products
Altair® AcuSolve® ©1997-2022
Altair Activate® ©1989-2022
Altair® Battery Designer™ ©2019-2022
Altair Compose® ©2007-2022
Altair® ConnectMe™ ©2014-2022
Altair® EDEM™ ©2005-2022
Altair® ElectroFlo™ ©1992-2022
Altair Embed® ©1989-2022
Altair Embed® SE ©1989-2022
Altair Embed®/Digital Power Designer ©2012-2022
Altair Embed® Viewer ©1996-2022
Altair® ESAComp® ©1992-2022
Altair® Feko® ©1999-2022
Altair® Flow Simulator™ ©2016-2022
Altair® Flux® ©1983-2022
Altair® FluxMotor® ©2017-2022
Altair® HyperCrash® ©2001-2022
Altair® HyperGraph® ©1995-2022
Altair® HyperLife® ©1990-2022
Altair® HyperMesh® ©1990-2022

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Altair® HyperStudy® ©1999-2022
Altair® HyperView® ©1999-2022
Altair® HyperWorks® ©1990-2022
Altair® HyperXtrude® ©1999-2022
Altair® Inspire™ ©2009-2022
Altair® Inspire™ Cast ©2011-2022
Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Metal ©1996-2022
Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Polymer ©1996-2022
Altair® Inspire™ Form ©1998-2022
Altair® Inspire™ Mold ©2009-2022
Altair® Inspire™ PolyFoam ©2009-2022
Altair® Inspire™ Print3D ©2022
Altair® Inspire™ Render ©1993-2022
Altair® Inspire™ Studio ©1993-2022
Altair® Material Data Center™ ©2019-2022
Altair® MotionSolve® ©2002-2022
Altair® MotionView® ©1993-2022
Altair® Multiscale Designer® ©2011-2022
Altair® nanoFluidX® ©2013-2022
Altair® OptiStruct® ©1996-2022
Altair® PollEx™ ©2003-2022
Altair® PSIM™ ©2022
Altair® Pulse™ ©2020-2022
Altair® Radioss® ©1986-2022
Altair® romAI™ ©2022
Altair® SEAM® ©1985-2022
Altair® SimLab® ©2004-2022
Altair® SimLab® ST ©2019-2022
Altair SimSolid® ©2015-2022
Altair® ultraFluidX® ©2010-2022
Altair® Virtual Wind Tunnel™ ©2012-2022
Altair® WinProp™ ©2000-2022
Altair® WRAP™ ©1998-2022

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Intellectual Property Rights Notice
Altair® S-FRAME® ©1995-2022
Altair® S-STEEL™ ©1995-2022
Altair® S-PAD™ ©1995-2022
Altair® S-CONCRETE™ ©1995-2022
Altair® S-LINE™ ©1995-2022
Altair® S-TIMBER™ ©1995-2022
Altair® S-FOUNDATION™ ©1995-2022
Altair® S-CALC™ ©1995-2022
Altair® S-VIEW™ ©1995-2022
Altair® Structural Office™ ©2022
Altair®HyperViewPlayer® ©2022

Altair Packaged Solution Offerings (PSOs)
Altair® Automated Reporting Director™ ©2008-2022
Altair® e-Motor Director™ ©2019-2022
Altair® Geomechanics Director™ ©2011-2022
Altair® Impact Simulation Director™ ©2010-2022
Altair® Model Mesher Director™ ©2010-2022
Altair® NVH Director™ ©2010-2022
Altair® NVH Full Vehicle™ ©2022
Altair® NVH Standard™ ©2022
Altair® Squeak and Rattle Director™ ©2012-2022
Altair® Virtual Gauge Director™ ©2012-2022
Altair® Weld Certification Director™ ©2014-2022
Altair® Multi-Disciplinary Optimization Director™ ©2012-2022

Altair HPC & Cloud Products
Altair® PBS Professional® ©1994-2022
Altair® PBS Works™ ©2022
Altair® Control™ ©2008-2022
Altair® Access™ ©2008-2022
Altair® Accelerator™ ©1995-2022
Altair® Accelerator™ Plus ©1995-2022
Altair® FlowTracer™ ©1995-2022
Altair® Allocator™ ©1995-2022

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Intellectual Property Rights Notice
Altair® Monitor™ ©1995-2022
Altair® Hero™ ©1995-2022
Altair® Software Asset Optimization (SAO) ©2007-2022
Altair Mistral™ ©2022
Altair® Grid Engine® ©2001, 2011-2022
Altair® DesignAI™ ©2022
Altair Breeze™ ©2022
Altair® NavOps® ©2022
Altair® Unlimited™ ©2022

Altair Data Analytics Products
Altair Analytics Workbench™ ©2002-2022
Altair® Knowledge Studio® ©1994-2022
Altair® Knowledge Studio® for Apache Spark ©1994-2022
Altair® Knowledge Seeker™ ©1994-2022
Altair® Knowledge Hub™ ©2017-2022
Altair® Monarch® ©1996-2022
Altair® Panopticon™ ©2004-2022
Altair® SmartWorks™ ©2021-2022
Altair SLC™ ©2002-2022
Altair SmartWorks Hub™ ©2002-2022
Altair One™ ©1994-2022
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Technical Support
Altair provides comprehensive software support via web FAQs, tutorials, training classes, telephone, ande-mail.

Altair One Customer Portal
Altair One (https://altairone.com/) is Altair’s customer portal giving you access to product downloads, a
Knowledge Base, and customer support. We recommend that all users create an Altair One account anduse it as their primary portal for everything Altair.
When your Altair One account is set up, you can access the Altair support page via this link:
www.altair.com/customer-support/

Altair Community
Participate in an online community where you can share insights, collaborate with colleagues and peers,and find more ways to take full advantage of Altair’s products.
Visit the Altair Community (https://community.altair.com/community) where you can access online
discussions, a knowledge base of product information, and an online form to contact Support. After you
login to the Altair Community, subscribe to the forums and user groups to get up-to-date information
about release updates, upcoming events, and questions asked by your fellow members.
These valuable resources help you discover, learn and grow, all while having the opportunity to networkwith fellow explorers like yourself.

Altair Training Classes
Altair’s in-person, online, and self-paced trainings provide hands-on introduction to our products,focusing on overall functionality. Trainings are conducted at our corporate and regional offices or at yourfacility.
For more information visit: https://learn.altair.com/
If you are interested in training at your facility, contact your account manager for more details. If you
do not know who your account manager is, contact your local support office and they will connect you
with your account manager.

Telephone and E-mailIf you are unable to contact Altair support via the customer portal, you may reach out to technicalsupport via phone or e-mail. Use the following table as a reference to locate the support office for yourregion.
When contacting Altair support, specify the product and version number you are using along witha detailed description of the problem. It is beneficial for the support engineer to know what typeof workstation, operating system, RAM, and graphics board you have, so include that in yourcommunication.
Location

TelephoneE-mailAustralia+61 3 9866 5557

anzsupport@altair.com

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Location

Telephone

E-mailBrazil+55 113 884 0414

br_support@altair.com

Canada+1 416 447 6463

support@altairengineering.ca

China+86 400 619 6186

support@altair.com.cn

France+33 141 33 0992

francesupport@altair.com

Germany+49 703 162 0822

hwsupport@altair.deGreece+30 231 047 3311

eesupport@altair.com

India+91 806 629 4500

support@india.altair.com+1 800 425 0234 (toll free)
Israelisraelsupport@altair.com

Italy+39 800 905 595

support@altairengineering.it

Japan+81 3 6225 5830

support@altairjp.co.jp

Malaysia+60 32 742 7890

aseansupport@altair.com

Mexico+52 55 5658 6808

mx-support@altair.com

New Zealand+64 9 413 7981

anzsupport@altair.com

South Africa+27 21 831 1500

support@altair.co.za

South Korea+82 704 050 9200

support@altair.co.kr

Spain+34 910 810 080

support-spain@altair.com

Sweden+46 46 460 2828

support@altair.seUnited Kingdom+44 192 646 8600

support@uk.altair.com

United States+1 248 614 2425

hwsupport@altair.com

If your company is being serviced by an Altair partner, you can find that information on our web site athttps://www.altair.com/PartnerSearch/.
See www.altair.com for complete information on Altair, our team, and our products.

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Platform Support
Platform Support

Platforms, operating systems, and processors supported by Altair Simulation 2022.2 products, which
includes 2022.2 solver packages.
This chapter covers the following:•Altair Simulation Products (p. 11)•Platforms Added in Altair Simulation 2022.2 (p. 12)•Platforms Dropped in Altair Simulation 2022.2 (p. 13)•Minimum Operating System Requirements (p. 14)•Linux System Requirements (p. 16)

Platforms

Altair Simulation 2022.2

OSVersionArchitecture

GUI ProductsSolvers

Windows10x86_64

YESYESLinuxRHEL / Oracle
Linux 8.4x86_64

YESYESSLES 15 SP3Windows Ultra High Definition (UHD/HiDPI) support requires Windows 10 Update 1709 or higher
RHEL= Red Hat Enterprise LinuxSLES = SUSE Linux Enterprise ServerLinux
Altair Simulation products may install and run on other non-supported Linux distributions not
mentioned or referred to in this documentation, but Altair does not test, certify, verify or warrant
the reliability of the products on these platforms.
• Altair™ products are tested on Gnome Desktop Manager (GDM)• Xen kernels are currently not supported kernels for Altair Simulation products• VirtualGL and other third-party remote visualization tools are not officially supported by Altair
Simulation products
Ultra High Definition (UHD)• UHD resolution support (2160p) is only available for Windows 10 (1709 or higher).
◦

Using Windows 200% scaling for 2160p is recommended.

• Our recommended HD setting is 1080p for FHD and our Ultra HD setting is 2160p.

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Platform Support• Java based tools within our products may still show some scaling issues under Ultra HD
resolution.
Refer to the Hardware Recommendations and Certifications section for details.

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Platform Support

Altair Simulation Products
1. Altair® HyperWorks Desktop™ Applications
2. Altair® SimLab®
3. Altair SimSolid® (Windows only)
4. Altair® Feko®
• Altair® Feko® Applications• Altair® newFASANT™
• Altair® WinProp™
5. Altair® Flux®
6. Altair® Solvers™
• Altair® OptiStruct®
• Altair® Radioss®
• Altair® MotionSolve®
• Altair® HyperXtrude®
• Altair® Manufacturing Solver™
• Altair® Multiscale Designer®
• Altair® Seam®
7. Altair® CFD Solvers™
• Altair® AcuSolve®
• Altair® ultraFluidX® (Linux only)• Altair® nanoFluidX® (Linux only)
8. Altair® Virtual Wind Tunnel for ultraFluidX™
9. Altair® Activate®
10. Altair® Compose®
11. Altair® EDEM™
12. Altair® Inspire™ (Windows only)
13. Altair® Inspire Cast™ (Windows only)
14. Altair® Inspire Extrude™ (Windows only)• Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Metal• Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Polymer• Altair® Inspire™ Friction Stir Welding• Altair® Inspire™ Resin Transfer Molding
15. Altair® Inspire Form™ (Windows only)
16. Altair® Inspire™ Mold (Windows only)
17. Altair® Inspire™ PolyFoam (Windows only)
18. Altair® Inspire Render™ (Windows only)
19. Altair® Inspire Studio™ (Windows only)

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Altair Simulation 2022.2
Platform Support

Platforms Added in Altair Simulation 2022.2
1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4/Oracle Linux 8.4

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Altair Simulation 2022.2
Platform Support

Platforms Dropped in Altair Simulation 2022.2
1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3/CentOS 8.3

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Minimum Operating System Requirements
Table 1:

System/Hardware
Information

LinuxWindows

Operating Systems

RHEL 8.4 (64-bit)

10 (64-bit)

Oracle Linux 8.4 (64-bit)
SLES 15 SP3 (64-bit)
Memory16 GB (higher recommended)

16 GB (higher recommended)

Complete Install Disk
SpaceApplications

Help

Applications

Help

72 GB

12 GB

110 GB

12 GB~8 GB temporary disk
space required forfull Altair Simulation
2022.2 installation
Graphics Hardware

1.

2

OpenGL 3D graphics accelerator
OpenGL 3D graphics accelerator
compatible with OpenGL 3.3 or higher compatible with OpenGL 3.3 or higher
Vulkan 1.2 or higher

Vulkan 1.2 or higher

OpenCL 2.1 required

OpenCL 2.1 required

True color (24-bit) support

True color (24-bit) support

Install/update to most recent OpenGL
patches/drivers

Install/update to most recent OpenGL
patches/drivers

1920x1080 screen resolution or
higher for optimal user experience

1920x1080 screen resolution or
higher for optimal user experience

4 GB or higher dedicated RAM4 GB or higher dedicated RAM

Only AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
supported (Intel chipsets are notsupported)

Only AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
supported (Intel chipsets are notsupported)

Local help installations may require modifying the browser to allow running active content from thehard disk. For search capability, the users should have a browser supporting either ActiveX (IE onWindows) or Java Environment plugin installed on their machine.

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Altair Simulation Graphical User Interface (GUI) products, when used with Ultra High Definition(UHD) displays consisting of 1920x1200 or higher (for example, 3200x1800, 3840x2160 or4096x2160), may result in graphical problems. Some GUI items may not be displayed correctly,
some functionality such as image captures may not capture images correctly, and window selection
may become an issue. Altair Simulation 2022.2 does not officially support these high screen
resolutions. We suggest setting your resolution to 1920x1200 or lower to resolve or minimize
these types of issues from occurring. Our development teams are aware of these problems and areworking closely with the hardware vendors to find a quick resolution.

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Platform Support

Linux System Requirements
Run the HyperWorks compatibility tool to validate your Linux compatibility with Altair Simulation
products located under the <INSTALL_PATH>/altair/hwdesktop/utility/HWCompatibilityTool/folder.

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