Mathematica 8 System Requirements and Platform Availability

Mathematica is optimized for the latest operating systems and hardware, so you can use any system you want.

Hardware Specifications

Processor: Intel Pentium III 650 MHz or equivalent
Disk Space: 4 GB
System Memory (RAM): 512 MB required; 1 GB+ recommended
Internet Access: Required in order to use free-form linguistic input and computable data functionality.

To use Mathematica 8's built-in GPU computing capabilities, you'll need a graphics card that supports OpenCL or CUDA, such as many cards from NVIDIA, AMD, and others.

Mathematica 8 is available on the following platforms:

Microsoft Windows

Apple Mac

Linux

Microsoft Windows	32-bit	64-bit
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP*
Windows HPC Server 2008	Windows HPC Server 2008 supports 64-bit systems only.
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2003
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003	Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 supports 64-bit systems only.
*Windows XP requires Service Pack 2 or later.

Apple Mac	32-bit	64-bit
Mac OS X 10.7 Intel	Mac OS X 10.7 supports 64-bit systems only.
Mac OS X 10.6 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac users on Intel systems with Mac OS X 10.5 or later can run the latest version of Mathematica. Mathematica 8 will run on both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Macs. Mathematica 8 is not supported on Mac PowerPC. Mathematica 7 is available for Mac OS X 10.5 PPC. For more information, contact us»

Linux	32-bit	64-bit
Ubuntu 7-10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS 5
Debian 5*
openSUSE 11
Mathematica 8 has been fully tested on the Linux distributions listed above. On new Linux distributions, additional compatibility libraries may need to be installed. It is likely that Mathematica will run successfully on other distributions based on the Linux kernel 2.6 or later. Mathematica supports an X Window System front end, and since Version 7 has used the Qt application framework for its user interface—the same used by the major Linux desktop environment KDE. Regular tests are run on both enterprise and popular open-source Linux distributions. *Debian users will need the 32-bit compatibility library, lib32stdc++6.

Additional Notes:
For assistance migrating between 32-bit and 64-bit versions, contact customer service»
To use the new C compilation feature in Mathematica 8, a C compiler is required to be present.
Mathematica 7 is also available for Sun Solaris 10. For more information, contact us»

Questions about your configuration? Contact us»