Supported Architectures

Cactus runs on many machines, under a large number of operating systems. Here, we list the machines we have compiled and verified Cactus on, including some architecture specific notes. A complete list of architectures supported by Cactus, along with more notes, can be found at

http://www.cactuscode.org/Documentation/Architectures.html.

SGI

32 or 64 bit running Irix.

Cray T3E

Compaq Alpha

Compaq operating system and Linux. Single processor mode and MPI supported. The Alphas need to have the GNU C/C++ compilers installed.

IA32

running Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or Windows 2000/NT. Single processor mode and MPI (MPICH and LAM) supported.
On Windows, Cactus compiles with Cygwin. MPI (WMPI, HPVM, and MPIPro) supported. Please read doc/README.NT for details.

IA64

running Linux.

Macintosh PowerPC

(MacOS X and Linux PPC)

IBM SP2,SP3,SP4

32 or 64 bit running AIX.

Hitachi SR8000-F1

Sun Solaris

Fujitsu

NEC SX-5, SX-6

The following machines are only partially supported,

HP Exemplar