COMSOL Multiphysics System Requirements for Windows

Operating System	32-bit¹ Windows Version	64-bit² Windows Version
Windows 7, all editions	yes	yes
Windows HPC Server 2008³	no	yes
Windows Server 2008	no	yes
Windows Vista, all editions	yes	yes
Windows 2003 Compute Cluster Server with Service Pack 1 or later	no	yes
Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition with Service Pack 2 or later	no	yes
Windows 2003 Server with Service Pack 2 or later	yes	yes
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition with Service Pack 2 or later	no	yes
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later	yes	no
Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or later	yes	no

¹32-bit Windows

Pentium III or later
OpenGL 1.1 from Microsoft or an accelerator that supports OpenGL 1.1, or DirectX version 8.0 or later. The graphics card should have at least 128 MB of memory.

²64-bit Windows

A PC with one of these processors: AMD with AMD64 or Intel with EM64T.
A graphics card with at least 128 MB of memory.
For physical memory limits of 64-bit Windows editions, please see Microsoft's listing.

³Free Cluster Nodes Licensing

Users of COMSOL Multiphysics floating network license will be able to deploy their simulations on any number of hosts – without any additional licensing cost. COMSOL Multiphysics supports Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and Windows HPC Server 2008