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IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 Technical Overview and Introduction
4.1 64-bit CATIA
We provide an introduction to CATIA in this section. Figure 4-1 shows the IntelliStation
POWER 285 workstation set up as a CATIA workstation.
Figure 4-1 IntelliStation POWER 285 workstation with input devices
CATIA Overview
The CATIA Version 5 Release 15 announcement built on the V5 R14 announcement where
certain CATIA V5 and ENOVIA DMU products were announced as being supported in 64-bit
mode when executing on IBM workstations running AIX 5L.
With the Version 5 Release 15 product release, 64-bit support has been enhanced adding
support for many CATIA V5 applications and extending ENOVIA DMU application support in
64-bit mode when running on pSeries or IntelliStation POWER workstations with AIX 5L V5.1
Maintenance Level 4, AIX 5L V5.2, and AIX 5L V5.3.
Capitalizing on the investments that clients have already made on IBM platforms running
AIX 5L, they can instantly benefit from the advanced capabilities of the latest ENOVIA DMU
and CATIA V5 software to help them handle designs and digital mock-ups of full product
configurations with the level of detail they need.
The addition of native 64-bit capability brings significant performance enhancement to users
of CATIA V5 and ENOVIA DMU Navigator. Initial benchmarks indicate that for
memory-intensive operations, such as analysis of large models, global performance is
significantly increased. In addition, improvements to clash analysis greatly reduce processing
times for analysis of large assemblies.
Installation tips for 64-bit CATIA V5
The installation process of 64-bit CATIA V5 is identical to the previous versions of CATIA. The
64-bit CATIA V5 version will not overwrite the existing implementation. The entire executable
code is installed in a unique file system created for it. This file system is independent of the
file system in which CATIA is installed.
