McIDAS-X
2007
Supported System Configurations
McIDAS-X 2007 is supported on systems running Apple Mac OS X, HP-UX,
IBM AIX, Microsoft Windows XP with Services for Unix, Red Hat Linux,
SGI IRIX or Sun Solaris. The table below lists the software versions,
listed alphabetically by vendor, that the MUG supports with McIDAS-X
2007.
McIDAS-X 2007 was tested on these versions only. The MUG is extremely
limited in its ability to support sites running 2007 with other software
versions.
Vendor: Apple
| Operating System |
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel |
| Fortran compiler |
g77: 3.4 (available for free at http://hpc.sourceforge.net) |
| C compiler |
gcc: 4.0 (packaged with Mac OS X 10.4) |
| X Server |
packaged with Mac OS X 10.4 |
-or-
| Operating System |
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC |
| Fortran compiler |
g77: 3.4.3 (available for free at http://fink.sourceforge.net) |
| C compiler |
gcc: 4.0 (packaged with Mac OS X 10.4) |
| X Server |
packaged with Mac OS X 10.4 |
Vendor: HP
| Operating System |
HP-UX 11.11 |
| Fortran compiler |
vendor: HP Fortran 90 version 3.1 |
| C compiler |
vendor: HP C/ANSI C 11.11.16 |
| X Window System |
packaged with HP-UX 11.11 |
Vendor: IBM
| Operating System |
AIX 5L version 5.3.3 |
| Fortran compiler |
vendor: XLF 8.1.0 -or- g77: 3.4.4 |
| C compiler |
vendor: XLC 6.0 -or- gcc: 3.4.4 |
| X Window System |
AIXwindows 5.3.3 |
Vendor: Microsoft
| Operating System |
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and Services for Unix 3.5 |
| Fortran compiler* |
packaged with Services for Unix 3.5 |
| C compiler* |
packaged with Services for Unix 3.5 |
| X Server |
we currently do not have a single X Server that we recommend; we have tried many, but have run into problems when cutting and pasting in McIDAS; some X Servers work better than others but we have not found any one that works flawlessly; here at SSEC, many people use Exceed 6.1.1 (an older version), X-Win32 5.4 or MicroImages X Server 4.2.1 (this one seems to work quite well; it's available for $25 from www.microimages.com) |
* Because the McIDAS-X package for Windows is a binary package, the Fortran and C compilers are needed only if you do local development on the workstation.
Vendor: Red Hat
| Operating System |
Enterprise Linux WS 4.0 in 32 or 64 bit mode |
| Fortran compiler |
g77: 3.4.6 |
| C compiler |
gcc: 3.4.6 |
| X Window System* |
packaged with Enterprise Linux WS 4.0 |
* We recommend that you use the GNOME desktop environment. Other desktops,
such as KDE, will not display the McIDAS-X windows correctly.
** We recommend that you run your Enterprise Linux workstations in 32 bit
mode. The McIDAS-X 2007 core software has been fully system tested in 64 bit
mode, but many other problems have been reported, especially with locally developed
code.
** Enterprise Linux 4.0 does not install Unix compress by default. So you must
install compress if you will be configuring your Enterprise Linux 4.0 workstations
as an ADDE remote server.
Vendor: SGI
|
| Operating System |
IRIX 6.5.21 |
| Fortran compiler |
vendor: SGI Fortran 77 7.4.2 -or- g77:
3.3.2 |
| C compiler |
vendor: ANSI C 7.4.2 -or- gcc: 3.3.2 |
| X Window System |
packaged with IRIX 6.5.21 |
Vendor: Sun
| Operating System |
Solaris 10 OS SPARC Platform Edition |
| Fortran compiler |
vendor: Sun Studio 11 -or- g77: 3.4.6 |
| C compiler |
vendor: Sun Studio 11 -or- gcc: 3.4.6 |
| X Window System |
packaged with Solaris 10 |
- or -
| Operating System |
Solaris 10 OS x86 Platform Edition |
| Fortran compiler |
g77: 3.4.6 |
| C compiler |
gcc: 3.4.6 |
| X Window System |
packaged with Solaris 10 |
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