System Requirements

August 25, 2008

The following table provides an overview of the various combinations of hardware architectures and operating systems that Calibre currently supports and intends to support in the upcoming year. The Calibre product organization regularly reviews platform and operating systems in order to develop platform support plans. The support roadmap is a forecast and may be adjusted to better mesh with customer needs and with the availability of specific hardware and operating systems.

Calibre System Configurations

The Calibre tools may require a minimum OS patch level for each supported OS. Please see the Calibre Administrator’s Guide provided with the particular Calibre release you are interested in. The Calibre Administrator’s Guide provides release-specific information on required patch levels and other information on supported environments.

LINUX

The Calibre toolset is supported for use with the Linux operating system on three different hardware platforms. In general, any "Tier 1" hardware supported by either Novell (SUSE) or Red Hat is supported for use with the Calibre toolset. The correct software must be loaded on a particular hardware platform to use Calibre, and the supported OS versions, service packs or updates are listed below. Use of any other OS version, service pack or update not mentioned here is not supported and is covered under the terms of the "Linux Distribution Compatibility Statement" provided below. Supported Linux hardware platforms are:

• x86 (32-bit) -- Calibre downloads that support x86 32-bit processors begin with the character string "ixl". Only 32-bit Calibre is supported on x86 platforms.
• x86-64 (32/64-bit) -- Calibre downloads that support x86-64 processors also begin with the character string "ixl". Calibre software uses "ixl" for a single software tree that supports both x86 and x86-64 compatible processors. Both 32-bit and 64-bit Calibre are supported on x86-64 platforms. There are two x86-64 processor products supplied by different vendors, AMD and Intel. The Calibre toolset is qualified and supported on computers based on either of these processors.
• Itanium Processor Family (IPF) -- Calibre downloads that support IPF begin with the character string "iil". Only 64-bit Calibre is supported with IPF computers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS

Calibre support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is determined by the operating system version, for example RHEL 4u2. The "edition", i.e. AS, ES or WS, does not matter. The "edition" is how Red Hat packages, prices and supports RHEL, and does not affect Calibre support of RHEL.

Linux x86 Platform (32-bit only)

The following table indicates which Linux OS versions are supported on x86 platforms in a specific Calibre release.

Supported 
 P  = preferred

The preferred x86 Linux operating systems for the current Calibre product line are SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, service pack 1, (SLES 10sp1) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, update 4 (RHEL 4u4). SLES 9, SLES 9sp2, SLES 10, RHEL 3, RHEL 3u2, RHEL 4u2, RHEL 4u6 and RHEL 5 are also supported. 64-bit Calibre execution is not available on the x86 platform. Support for RH 7.2 and RH 8.0 was discontinued with the Calibre 2007.4 release. Therefore, Calibre 2007.4 and subsequent releases will no longer execute on Red Hat 7.2 or Red Hat 8.0 based systems. Support for all RHEL 3 and SLES 9 versions will be discontinued with the Calibre 2009.1 release scheduled for February 2009.

Linux x86-64 Platform (32/64-bit)

The following table indicates which OS versions are supported on x86-64 platforms in a specific Calibre release.

Supported 
 P  = preferred

The preferred x86-64 Linux operating systems for the current Calibre product line are SLES 10sp1 and RHEL 4u4. In addition, RHEL 4u2, RHEL 4u6, RHEL 5, SLES 9, SLES 9sp2, and SLES 10 are supported with both AMD and Intel x86-64-compatible computers. RHEL 3 and RHEL 3u2 are supported with AMD64 based computers, but cannot be used with EM64T based computers. Support for RH 7.2 and RH 8.0 was discontinued with the Calibre 2007.4 release. Therefore, Calibre 2007.4 and subsequent releases will no longer execute on Red Hat 7.2 or Red Hat 8.0 based systems. Support for all RHEL 3 and SLES 9 versions will be discontinued with the Calibre 2009.1 release scheduled for February 2009.

Linux IPF Platform (64-bit only)

The following table indicates which Linux OS versions are supported on Itanium platforms in a specific Calibre release.

Supported 
 P  = preferred

The preferred IPF Linux operating system for the current Calibre product line is RHEL 4u4. RHEL 3, RHEL 3u2, RHEL 4u2, and RHEL 5 are also supported on the IPF platform. Support for all RHEL 3 versions will be discontinued with the Calibre 2009.1 release scheduled for February 2009. Please see the Itanium Processor Family Support page for further details.

Linux Support for Large Memory Machines
Mentor Graphics Corporation strongly recommends that you use RHEL 4u2, SLES 10sp1 or newer with any Linux machine that has more than 16GB of physical memory.

Linux Distribution Compatibility Statement
If customers encounter problems using If customers encounter problems using Mentor Graphics tools on an unsupported Linux distribution, and the problem can be duplicated on a supported production Linux distribution, it will be addressed through normal Mentor Graphics support policies. If a problem only exists on the unsupported Linux distribution, the fix lies in a change to the Linux environment, not the Mentor Graphics product. In this case, customers should contact their Linux supplier.

Solaris

The following table indicates which Sun Solaris OS versions are supported on SPARC and x86-64 platforms in a specific Calibre release.

Supported 
 P  = preferred

The preferred Solaris UltraSPARC operating system version for the current Calibre product line is Solaris 8. The Calibre product line on UltraSPARC also supports the Solaris 9 and 10 operating systems. As of the Calibre 2007.4 release, the minimum patch level required for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems has been updated.

Solaris 8 requires the February 2004 Solaris recommended patch cluster, as well as patches 108434-22 (32-bit libCrun), 108435-22 (64-bit libCrun), and 111721-04 (libm).

Solaris 9 requires the September 2004 Solaris recommended patch cluster, as well as patches 111711-16 (32-bit libCrun), 111712-16 (64-bit libCrun), and 111722-04 (libm).

Solaris 10 requires the November 2006 Solaris recommended patch cluster.

Later versions of either of the patch clusters or individual patches are also supported. Depending on precisely which patch cluster is loaded, you may or may not need to load the individual patches (i.e. they may be bundled with the patch cluster).

Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of all Solaris operating systems are supported. The Calibre 2008.2 release is the last release in which 32-bit execution mode will be the default execution mode on Sun Solaris UltraSPARC computers. With the Calibre 2008.3 and 2008.4 releases, the default execution mode will change to 64-bit which can be used with all designs. You can continue to access 32-bit execution mode by specifying the -32 switch at invocation or by using the USE_CALIBRE_32=1 environment variable. Note that with the Calibre 2009.1 release, 32-bit mode will no longer be supported on Solaris.

The Calibre product line can be used on any SUN UltraSPARC computer that supports the above OS versions. Please reference the Calibre Administrator’s Guide on the Mentor Graphics SupportNet for additional details.

Support for Solaris x64 (Solaris 10 running on x86-64 based processors) is available starting with the Calibre 2007.3 release.

OpenSolaris Compatibility Statement

Mentor Graphics software is tested and qualified only on Solaris distributions produced by Sun Microsystems. If you encounter a problem using Mentor Graphics tools on an OpenSolaris distribution, and the problem can be duplicated on a supported Sun Microsystems Solaris distribution, it will be addressed though normal Mentor Graphics support policies. If a problem only exists on the OpenSolaris distribution, the problem lies in the OpenSolaris environment, not the Mentor Graphics product. In this case, contact the OpenSolaris supplier.

HP-UX

The following table indicates which HP-UX OS versions are supported on PA-RISC platforms in a specific Calibre release.

Supported 
 P  = preferred

The preferred operating system for the HP PA-RISC platform is HP-UX 11i. The HP-UX 11.0 operating system is also supported. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of both OS versions were supported through the 2006.2 release of Calibre. Starting with the 2006.3 Calibre release, only 64-bit is supported.

Note that due to limited availability of hardware capable of running HP-UX 11.0, the large majority of Calibre testing and qualification is done using HP-UX 11i.

The Calibre product line can be used on any HP PA-RISC computer that supports either HP-UX 11i or 11.0.

NOTE: The final Calibre release that supports HP-UX PA-RISC is Calibre 2007.4. HP-UX PA-RISC support is discontinued as of the 2008.1 release of Calibre. Please reference the HP-UX/HP PA-RISC End-of-Life announcement for more information.

Yellow Dog Linux

The Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) v5.0 operating system is supported specifically for the Calibre nmOPC-CPA software operating on Cell Broadband Engine™ (BE) processor hardware purchased directly from Mercury Computer Systems. The YDL v5.0-based software cannot be run stand-alone. It requires additional Calibre software running on one of the other primary platforms listed above.