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2   System Requirements

• Linux/x86

  Simics is built for Red Hat Linux 7.3. Simics also runs on later Red Hat versions and many other Linux distributions. Minimum processor requirement is a Pentium II or equivalent.

  Linux/AMD64

  Built for SuSE 9.0. Simics also runs on many other Linux distributions.

  Solaris/UltraSPARC 64-bit

  Built for Solaris 8. Simics also runs on Solaris 9 and 10.

• Requirements on memory and disk sizes depend on the workload, but at least 512MB RAM and several GB of free disk space is recommended.
• The Eclipse based user-interface in Simics requires version 2.2.1 of the GTK+ widget toolkit and associated libraries (GLib, Pango). To read the online documentation in Eclipse, Mozilla 1.4GTK2 or later is also required.

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