Installation requirements

The minimum requirements for running mental ray 3.6.51 on Linux are as follows.

Hardware requirements

To install and run mental ray 3.6.51, your workstation must have:

• (32-bit) Pentium II or higher processor, 300 Mhz or greater
• (32-bit) Qualified operating system. For information on supported Linux distributions, see www.autodesk.com/qual-charts
• (64-bit) Intel^® processor with Intel^® EM64T (Pentium^® 4, Xeon^™, Xeon MP) or AMD^® processor with AMD64 (AMD Athlon^™, AMD Opteron^™)
• (64-bit) Operating system with an x86_64 distribution. For information on supported Linux distributions, see www.autodesk.com/qual-charts
• 256 MB or more available memory
• a CD-ROM drive
• For license server only: a hardware lock (or dongle) and adapter cable

Note The mental ray licensing software (Software Protection Manager (SPM)) and mental ray network rendering (rayserver) require open TCP ports on your machine in order to send and receive data across your network. By default, this data is sent on TCP ports 7050 and 7008. If you choose to use TCP service ports other than 7050 and 7008 (for example, if your firewall blocks these ports), you must change the TCP service ports. You can change the port specification by editing files on the license server machine and the client machines after software installation. See Editing service ports.

Disk space requirements

Minimum: 21 MB for mental ray 3.6.51.

Note You need at least 30 MB of free disk space for the installer to unpack the files.

Other requirements

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