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Supported platforms

The gPROMS® version 3 family products are currently available on the following hardware platforms and operating systems:

gPROMS family product Microsoft Windows
(Vista1a, XP1b, 20002)
 LINUX 32-bit 3,4
(Kernel 2.4 or 2.6 with glibc 2.3.4 on i686)
 LINUX 64-bit 8 (Kernel 2.6 with glibc 2.3.4 on x86_64)
gPROMS ModelBuilder
   + experiment design
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
 Yes
Yes
gO:CAPE-OPEN
Yes
    
gO:Simulink® (for Simulink R2007b)
Yes
    
gO:MATLAB® (for Matlab R2007b)
Yes
    
gO:RUN (incl.simulation)
   + optimisation
   + parameter estimation
   + experiment design
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
 Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
gO:CFD (for FLUENT version 12.0.16)
   + parallelised execution option 		Yes
Yes		   Yes
Yes
gO:CFD (for STAR-CD version 4.08)
   + parallelised execution option 		Yes
Yes		  
Hybrid multizonal gPROMS/CFD Foreign Object (for FLUENT version 12.0.16) Yes   Yes
AML:Fixed Bed Catalytic Reactor
   + multitubular CFD interface
   (for FLUENT version 12.0.16)
Yes
Yes
Yes


 Yes
Yes
AML: Solution Crystallisation
Yes
Yes
 Yes
AML: Gas-Liquid Contactors
Yes
Yes
 Yes
AML: Fuel Cells
Yes
Yes
 Yes
AML: Pressure Relief Systems
Yes
Yes
 Yes
gSERVER for gPROMS-based applications (gBAs)

Yes 5

Yes 6

Yes 7

1a. Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or later.
1b. Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later.
2. With service pack 1
3. If you wish to run parallel gO:CFD or gBAs on RedHat distributions prior to version 9.0, and others based on them, please see this note.
4. In some situations running gPROMS on modern Linux distributions may result in an error stating that '__dynamic_cast_2' is undefined. To fix this you will require libstdc++-6.2-2. If you do not have this version of the GNU standard C++ libraries installed on your system, you can still run by downloading it from here and extracting it into your $GPROMSHOME/lib directory.
5. With Visual Studio 2005 SP1.
6. For Kernel 2.4 with gcc 2.9.6, for Kernel 2.6 with gcc 3.4.4.
7. With gcc 3.4.4.
8. Intel Itanium processors are not supported

Expiring platforms

Please note that gPROMS v3.2.0 is the last version to support the following platforms:
  • Windows XP Service Pack 1. (Note: Windows XP Service Pack 2 and above will still be supported).
  • Windows 2000.

System requirements

Minimum hardware specification:

  • Intel Pentium IV or equivalent
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 256 MB available disk space  

Recommended hardware specification:

  • Core 2 Duo
  • 2GB RAM
  • 256 MB available disk space