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Jorgen
2007-08-28, 22:33
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I am a happy owner of a MacBook Pro laptop computer. One of the few limitations of this computer is that there is no version of ABAQUS for Apple computers :(
Fortunately, I am happy to announce that you can run ABAQUS quite well using the Parallels Virtualization software. As is shown in the following screen shots...

http://polymerfem.com/polymer_files/mac_win_aba.png

http://polymerfem.com/polymer_files/mac_lin_aba.png

ABAQUS runs both on a Windows virtual machine and a Linux virtual machine.

Since the MacBook Pro computer is running an Intel CPU there is no emulation needed and the simulations run at basically native CPU speed.

Also, I am pleased to announce that the current version of ABAQUS (v6.6) works well on Ubuntu 7.04.