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Installation

System requirements

Operating system

Antares code is cross-platform. Our releases target a few specific operating systems:

  • Windows 10/11
  • CentOS 7.9
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • OracleServer 8.9
  • OracleLinux 8

If you use any other Windows/Linux/Unix OS, you can still use Antares, although you will have to build it from sources (see next section).

Hard drive disk

Installed alone, the Antares simulator does not require a lot of HDD space (less than 1 GB). Installation packages including companion tools (study manager, graph editor) are however significantly heavier. The proper storage of data (i.e. both Input and Output folders of Antares studies) may require a large amount of space. The disk footprint of any individual study mainly depends on:

  • The size of the power system model (number of Areas, Links, Thermal clusters, etc.)
  • The number of ready-made Time-Series and the number of Time-Series to be generated at runtime and stored afterward (see these parameters).
  • The activation of output filters (see thematic-trimming and geographic-trimming parameters).
  • The number of Monte-Carlo years involved in the simulation session, if the storage of detailed year-by-year results is activated
  • Whether MPS export is activated

If you encounter space issues, consider tweaking the aforementioned parameters or reducing your study size.

Memory

The amount of RAM required for a simulation depends on:

  • The size of the power system model (number of Areas, Links, Thermal clusters, etc.)
  • The number of ready-made Time-Series and that of Time-Series to be generated at runtime
  • The simulation mode
  • The unit commitment resolution mode
  • If the multi-threading option is used

If you encounter memory issues, consider tweaking the aforementioned parameters or reducing your study size.

Instructions

  • Windows 10/11: download & run installation packages, or executables, available at https://antares-simulator.org or on GitHub.
  • CentOS 7.9: download & run installation packages, or executables, available on GitHub.
  • Ubuntu 20.04: download & run executables, available on GitHub.
  • OracleServer 8.9: download & run installation packages, or executables, available on GitHub.
  • OracleLinux 8: download & run executables, available on GitHub.
  • Any other Windows/Linux/Unix OS: refer to our website to see how to build Antares from sources