It is recommended that you install Abaqus documentation before you install the Abaqus products; if you do not, you must perform additional steps to provide access to the HTML documentation from Abaqus.
To install the Abaqus products, an Abaqus network license server that is compatible with Abaqus 2016 must be installed and running; you must know the name of at least one active Abaqus license server to perform the product installation.
The commands and options used to install the Abaqus products are listed in “Abaqus product installation,” Section 2.1.6.
You must have write permission in the installation directory to install the Abaqus products. On Windows platforms Abaqus shortcuts and required environment variables, including PATH, are added to the All User profile.
When you install Abaqus on Windows, the Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 and 2010 runtime libraries are installed automatically. These libraries are required to run Abaqus. The following libraries are installed:
64-bit 2012 libraries
64-bit 2010 libraries
Message Passing Interface (MPI) components must be installed to 1) use MPI-based parallel job execution in Abaqus/Standard, 2) to use domain-level parallelization in Abaqus/Explicit, or 3) to run any job in Abaqus/CFD (regardless of the number of CPUs). If your Abaqus users will be running these types of simulations, you must have the required MPI components preinstalled or allow the Abaqus installer to install them for you:
On Windows/x86-64, the Abaqus services installer automatically installs the Microsoft MPI 5.0 libraries, if necessary. If you have a 64-bit Windows HPC Server, however, this is not needed because the MPI components are included with the operating system.
On Linux 64-bit (lnx86-64) operating systems, the Abaqus product installer installs the IBM Platform Computing MPI libraries.
For more information on MPI and thread-based parallel processing modes, see “Parallel execution,” Section 3.5 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide.
Any other third-party software that will be used in conjunction with the Abaqus products (compilers, operating system patches, etc.) should be installed before installing the Abaqus products. See the Program Directory for more details.
When the Abaqus/CAE installer runs, you will be prompted for the items below.
The installation directory (cae_install_dir). For example: C:\ds\. This should be an empty directory.
The directory in which you installed the Abaqus services (solvers).
The license server host name. If a set of redundant servers will be used, enter the host names of the redundant servers in the boxes provided in the dialog box (see “Redundant FLEXnet license server configurations,” Section 3.4, for details on installing redundant license servers). The installation will define settings in the Abaqus environment file according to information detected in the Abaqus license file on the server. If the license server contains an academic teaching license, Abaqus will be configured to use this license by default (see “License management parameters,” Section 4.1.7).
The URL for the Abaqus HTML documentation or path to the base installation directory under which the PDF documentation files are installed (if only PDF was installed or if you prefer PDF over HTML). Entering this path when the installer prompts you will configure the abaqus doc command to open PDF rather than HTML documentation. See “Abaqus documentation,” Section 3.2.12 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide, for more information.
If you did not install the Abaqus HTML documentation before the products or if you do not specify the URL, you must perform additional steps to provide access to the HTML documentation (see “Setting the documentation URL after installation,” Section B.2).
The location of the Abaqus start-in directory (Windows platforms only). Specify the location where user files created during Abaqus interactive sessions are stored and the home directory for the Abaqus command window. The default location is C:\temp. (This can be changed by users later; see “Common customizations on Windows platforms,” Section 5.1.2.) Ensure that the start-in directory has write permission for all users.
If the installation program detects a wide area network (WAN) license file, you will be prompted for information about the geographic location of your computer. This information is used to automatically set the computer_location environment file parameter and enable license usage logging for report generation. For more information, see “Reporting FLEXnet license usage data,” Section 3.8.