ANSYS

Computing Platform Support

June 2014

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 Outline

Computing platform trends and support roadmap

Windows
Linux
ANSYS 15.0 Platform Support
By application
Other Platform Related Issues
MPI and Interconnect technology
Job Schedulers
Remote Display
GP-GPU accelerator support
Tested graphics cards
Virtualization, Cloud Computing

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 Computing Platform Trends
Compute servers
Steady migration to servers or clusters running Windows or Linux
Multicore x64 processors from Intel and AMD
Linux dominant; steady growth of Windows HPC Servers
64-bit OS now standard
Negligible footprint on other systems (e.g., legacy UNIX, Itanium)
Emergence of GP-GPUs for accelerated processing
Desktop workstations / Interactive systems
Windows 64-bit dominant, 32-bit waning
Smaller, but significant, use of Linux nearly all 64-bit
Emergence of GP-GPUs for accelerated processing
ANSYS Strategy:
Focus on 64 bit Windows and Linux for both desktop and compute servers.
Continue to focus on multicore processor optimization.
Pursue GPU acceleration where feasible.

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 ANSYS Platform Support - Windows

Platform ANSYS 14.5 ANSYS 15.0 2014 Releases/

ANSYS 16.0
x64 Windows XP (64-bit) N/A
Last release
x86 Windows XP (32-bit)
x64 Windows Vista (64-bit) N/A N/A
Last Release
x86 Windows Vista (32-bit)
x64 Windows 7 (64-bit)
Last 32-bit release 64-bit only
x86 Windows 7 (32-bit)
Professional and Enterprise Editions only
x64 Windows 8, 8.1 (64-bit)
Professional and Enterprise Editions only
x64 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (64-bit)
Varies by application Varies by application Varies by application

x64 / Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)

Batch only Batch only Batch only

X64 / Windows Server 2012 Standard (64 bit) -

Some applications Some applications batch
batch only only
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 Some applications are not supported on Linux (see tables below)
ANSYS Platform Support 64-bit Linux

Platform ANSYS 14.5 ANSYS 15.0 2014 Releases /

ANSYS 16.0
x64 / RHEL 5 (64-bit) N/A
5.7, 5.8, 5.9

x64 / RHEL 6 (64-bit)

6.2, 6.3, 6.4 6.4, 6.5

X64 / RHEL 7 (64-bit) Will evaluate post-

release If feasible

x64 / SLES 10 (64-bit) N/A N/A

Last release

x64 / SLES 11 SP1 (64-bit) N/A

x64 / SLES 11 SP2 (64-bit)

x64 / SLES 11 SP3 (64-bit) -

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 ANSYS Platform Support - Solaris

Platform ANSYS 14.5 ANSYS 15.0 2014 Releases /

ANSYS 16.0
Solaris 10 / SPARC (64-bit)
Under special Under special
customer customer
agreements only agreements only

Solaris 10 / x86 (64-bit) N/A N/A N/A

Note that only the License Manager is supported on Solaris.

ANSYS and Electronics applications are not supported on Solaris.

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 ANSYS 15.0 - LINUX Support Notes
ANSYS supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES / SLED)
RHEL 5 and RHEL 6
SLES / SLED 11
Server and Desktop editions are supported.
Desktop editions recommended for interactive use.
Server editions require additional drivers and tools to support interactive use.
Home editions are not supported.

ANSYS does not support other compatible Linux distributions

Fedora, Scientific Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Oracle LINUX, etc.
We can not sustain certification and technical support of multiple Linux distributions
Stability issues have been encountered on some open-source Linux
We will only provide support on issues that can be reproduced on our certified RedHat
and SUSE Linux releases.

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 ANSYS 15.0 Supported Platforms
Workbench Hosted Applications
ANSYS supports Windows and Linux for interactive desktop use of the following applications hosted in the
Workbench framework

64-bit
32-bit Windows XP, 64-bit SLES 11
Windows XP, Windows 7, 64-bit RHEL 5
Workbench Hosted Applications Windows 7 Windows 8, 8.1 64-bit RHEL 6
ANSYS AQWA YES YES* NO
ANSYS AUTODYN YES YES NO
ANSYS Blademodeler YES YES NO
ANSYS CFD-Post YES YES YES
ANSYS CFX YES YES YES
ANSYS Design Modeler YES YES YES
ANSYS DesignXplorer YES YES YES
ANSYS EKM Desktop YES YES YES
ANSYS Explicit STR YES YES YES
ANSYS FE Modeler YES YES YES
ANSYS Fluent YES YES YES
ANSYS Icepak YES YES YES
ANSYS Mechanical YES YES YES
ANSYS Mechanical APDL YES YES YES
ANSYS Meshing / Extended Meshing YES YES YES
ANSYS nCode DesignLife YES YES* NO
ANSYS POLYFLOW YES YES YES
ANSYS Rigid Body Dynamics YES YES YES
ANSYS SpaceClaim DM YES YES NO
ANSYS TurboGrid YES YES YES
ANSYS Vista TF YES YES YES
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* Not available on Windows 8, 8.1
 ANSYS 15.0 Supported Platforms
Ansoft derived Electronics Product Line
ANSYS supports the following platforms for interactive or batch execution of the
following applications
64-bit
Windows HPC
32-bit 64-bit 64-bit SLES 11 Server 2008 R2,
Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Pro, 64-bit RHEL 5 Server 2012
Applications Outside of Windows 7 Windows 7 64-bit RHEL 6 (Std. edition)
Workbench on x64 on x64 on x64 on x64
Designer 2014(*) Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive
HFSS 2014 (*) Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive
Maxwell 2014(*) Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive
Q3D Extractor 2014(*) Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive
Simplorer 2014(*) Interactive Interactive Interactive
SIwave 2014 Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive

Unique platform issues and notes:

(*) These products can run Standalone or as Workbench-Hosted applications

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 ANSYS 15.0 Supported Platforms
Standalone Applications and Solvers
ANSYS supports the following platforms for interactive or batch execution of the
following applications outside of Workbench
64-bit
64-bit Windows HPC
32-bit Windows XP Pro, 64-bit SLES 11 Server 2008 R2,
Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 64-bit RHEL 5 Server 2012 (Std.
Applications Outside of Windows 7 Windows 8, 8.1 64-bit RHEL 6 edition)
Workbench on x86 on x64 on x64 on x64
ANSYS AQWA , ANSYS ASAS Interactive Interactive*
ANSYS AUTODYN Interactive Interactive Solver Only
ANSYS CFD-Post Interactive Interactive Interactive
ANSYS CFX Interactive Interactive Interactive Solver Only
ANSYS Composite PrePost Interactive Interactive
ANSYS EKM Server Interactive Interactive Batch Only
ANSYS Fluent Interactive Interactive Interactive Solver Only
ANSYS ICEM CFD Interactive Interactive Interactive
ANSYS Icepak Interactive Interactive Interactive Solver Only
ANSYS LS-DYNA Solver Only Solver Only Solver Only
ANSYS Mechanical APDL Interactive Interactive Interactive Solver Only
ANSYS POLYFLOW Interactive Interactive Interactive
ANSYS SpaceClaim DM Interactive Interactive
ANSYS TGRID Interactive Interactive Interactive
ANSYS Turbogrid Interactive Interactive Interactive
* ANSYS AQWA and ANSYS ASAS are not available on Windows 8, 8.1

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 ANSYS 15.0 Supported Platforms
Workbench Hosted CAD Interfaces
ANSYS supports the following CAD readers, hosted in the Workbench framework
CAD Readers import geometry but do not invoke a bidirectional live interface to a running CAD application.
Linux support is limited due to lack of support by the CAD vendor
64-bit
32-bit Windows XP, 64-bit
Workbench Hosted CAD Readers Windows XP, Windows 7, SLES 11
Windows 7 Windows 8, 8.1 RHEL 5, RHEL 6
ACIS 24 YES YES YES
ANSYS BladeGen (14.5) YES YES
CATIA V6 R2013 YES YES
CATIA V5 (V5-6R2013) YES YES
CATIA V4 (4.2.4) YES YES
Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/ENGINEER) Creo Parametric 2.0 YES YES
GAMBIT 2.4 YES YES YES
IGES (5.3, 5.2, 4.0) YES YES YES
Autodesk Inventor 2013 YES YES
JT Open 9.5 YES YES
Monte Carlo N-Particle for ANSYS DesignModeler YES YES YES
NX 8.5 YES YES
Parasolid 26.0 YES YES YES
SolidWorks 2013 YES YES
STEP (AP214, AP203) YES YES YES

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 ANSYS 15.0 Supported Platforms
Workbench Hosted CAD Interfaces
ANSYS supports the following CAD Plug-Ins, hosted in the Workbench framework
CAD Plug-Ins provide bidirectional associative links to a running CAD application.
Linux support is limited due to lack of support by the CAD vendor
64-bit
32-bit Windows XP, 64-bit
Workbench Hosted CAD Plug-Ins Windows XP, Windows 7, SLES 11
Windows 7 Windows 8, 8.1 RHEL 5, RHEL 6
Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 YES1 YES1
Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 YES YES2
CATIA V5 CADNexus CAPRI CAE Gateway (V5R21, V5-
6R2012, V5-6R2013) YES YES2
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 18.1 YES YES3
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling (18.0, 17.0) YES YES2
Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/ENGINEER) - Creo Parametric 2.0 YES YES3
Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/ENGINEER) - Creo Parametric 1.0 YES YES2
Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/ENGINEER) - Wildfire 5.0 YES3 YES2,3
Autodesk Inventor 2014 YES1 YES1
Autodesk Inventor 2013 YES YES3
NX 8.5 YES1 YES1 RH 6.2 and SLES 11 SP1-SP3
NX 8.0 YES YES2 RH 6.2 and SLES 11 SP1-SP3
NX 7.5 YES YES2 RH 5.7
Solid Edge ST6 YES1 YES 1

Solid Edge ST5 YES1 YES1,2

SolidWorks 2013, 2014 YES1 YES1
SolidWorks 2012 YES YES2
SpaceClaim 2014 YES YES1
Teamcenter Unified 9.1 (2- & 4-tier) (NX 8.5, 8.0, 7.5) YES YES3
Teamcenter Unified 8.3 (2- & 4-tier) (NX 8.5, 8.0, 7.5) YES3 YES2,3
Teamcenter Unified 8.1 (2-tier only) (NX 7.5) YES3 YES2,3
12 2011 ANSYS, Inc. June 17, 2014 1. Not available on Windows XP 2. Not available on Windows 8 3. Please see the help documentation for specific requirements
 ANSYS 15.0 Supported Interconnects
ANSYS software performs parallel processing on distributed memory systems
Performance driven by network bandwidth and latency
Enabled via MPI (message passing interface) software that is integrated with the
ANSYS distribution*
IBM Platform MPI, Intel MPI, OpenMPI, Microsoft MPI
Supported interconnects include
Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10-GigE
Infiniband (from QLOGIC, Mellanox)
Myrinet (from Myricom)
Selected vendor-specific interconnects
See details in following tables

* Microsoft MPI is provided separately from Microsoft

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 Supported Interconnects
Distributed ANSYS Mechanical 15.0

Ethernet/GIGE Infiniband Myrinet

Windows / 32-bit IBM Platform MPI IBM Platform MPI IBM Platform MPI
Windows / 64-bit 9.1.0.1 9.1.0.1 9.1.0.1
Intel MPI 4.1.028 Intel MPI 4.1.028 Intel MPI 4.1.028
Windows HPC Microsoft HPC Pack Microsoft HPC Pack
Server 2008 / 2012 (MS MPI) (MS MPI)

Linux / x64 IBM Platform MPI IBM Platform MPI

9.1 9.1
Intel MPI 4.1.030 Intel MPI 4.1.030

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 Supported Interconnects ANSYS Fluent 15.0
Ethernet/GIGE Infiniband Myrinet Vendor Specific

Windows / 32-bit IBM Platform

MPI 9.1.0.1
Intel MPI
4.1.028
Windows / 64-bit IBM Platform IBM Platform MPI
MPI 9.1.0.1 9.1.0.1
Intel MPI Intel MPI 4.1.028
4.1.028
Windows HPC Microsoft HPC Microsoft HPC Microsoft HPC
Server 2008 /2012 Pack (MS MPI) Pack (MS MPI) Pack (MS MPI)

Linux / x64 IBM Platform IBM Platform MPI IBM Platform MPI Cray MPI *
MPI 9.1 9.1 9.1
Intel MPI Intel MPI 4.1.030 OpenMPI 1.6.5
4.1.030 OpenMPI 1.6.5
OpenMPI 1.6.5

* Cray MPI supported on Cray XE Systems

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 Supported Interconnects ANSYS CFX 15.0
Ethernet/GIGE Infiniband Myrinet Vendor Specific

Windows / 32-bit IBM Platform

MPI 9.1.0.1
Intel MPI
4.1.028
Windows / 64-bit IBM Platform IBM Platform MPI
MPI 9.1.0.1 9.1.0.1
Intel MPI Intel MPI 4.1.028
4.1.028
Windows HPC Microsoft HPC Microsoft HPC Microsoft HPC
Server 2008 /2012 Pack (MS MPI) Pack (MS MPI) Pack (MS MPI)

Linux / x64 IBM Platform IBM Platform MPI IBM Platform MPI Cray MPI *
MPI 9.1 9.1 9.1
Intel MPI Intel MPI 4.1.030
4.1.030

* Cray MPI is supported on Cray XE systems

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 Supported Remote Display Devices 15.0
Exceed on RealVNC** Nice DCV*** Remote Desktop
Demand* for Windows

Windows 7/ 32-bit Client Support Client Support Client Support Client Support
Server Support

Windows 7,8 / 64- Client support Client support Client support Client Support
bit Server Support

Linux / x64 Client Support Client Support Client Support

Server Support Server Support Server Support

* EOD Version 8 SP2/SP3

** RealVNC Enterprise Edition 5.0.4
*** Nice DCV Version 2012.2

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 ANSYS Remote Solve Manager
and Third Party Resource Management / Job Schedulers

The ANSYS Remote Solve Manager (ANSYS RSM) can interface with the
following commercial batch queuing systems on the specified operating
systems:
Platform LSF
Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES)
PBS Professional
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES)
Univa Grid Engine
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES)
Windows HPC
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 (Standard edition)

ANSYS RSM can also manage server resources directly without the
involvement of a commercial batch queuing system.
Some standalone ANSYS applications support a slightly different list of third
party job schedulers.
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 GPU Acceleration
ANSYS Mechanical and Fluent 15.0 can exploit multiple GP-GPUs to
accelerate computations using the SMP and DMP ANSYS
solvers
Supported on 64-bit Windows/Linux x64 systems
Supported hardware:
NVIDIA Tesla 20-series (1U) cards
NVIDIA Tesla K10 and K20 series cards
NVIDIA Quadro 6000 card
NVIDIA Quadro K5000
NVIDIA Quadro K6000
Intel Xeon Phi 3000, 5000, 7000 series co-processors (ANSYS Mechanical only)

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 Tested Graphics Cards R15.0

ANSYS tested R15 with the following graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA:
AMD FirePro; V7750, V7800, V8750, V8800, V9800, W5000, W7000, W8000,
W9000, M4000, M5100, M6000, M7820, M8900,
AMD Mobile w/Intel HD; M6100/Intel HD 4600
NVIDIA Quadro K; K600, K2000, K4000, K5000, K6000, K2000M, K5000M
NVIDIA Quadro; 600, 2000, 4000, 5000
NVIDIA Tesla / Quadro; K20, K4000
NVIDIA Quadro; K5000
NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700
NVIDIA Mobile K w/Intel HD; K4100M/Intel HD 4600, K5100M/Intel HD 4600

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 Other Platform Policies and Requirements
Virtualization
ANSYS 15.0 will support issues that we can reproduce on the base OS, but will not support issues
specific to the virtualization layer.

Cloud Computing
ANSYS is hardware neutral and can support your use of our applications on 3P / cloud infrastructure
Currently, we do not directly support any specific cloud infrastructure.

Mobile Device Support

EKM Mobile Client is supported on Android 2.3+ and Apple devices: iOS4.x+
User Programmable Feature Support
For product-specific compiler requirements, see Chapter 2, Platform Details, in the installation guide for
your platform
Obtaining Visual Studio 2008 (required for linking user programmable features on Windows platforms):
If you do not have Visual Studio 2008, you can still link user programmable features by downloading Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 SDK from the
following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C17BA869-9671-4330-A63E-1FD44E0E2505&displaylang=en
3D Input Device Support
3DConnexion Products (SpaceBall and SpacePilot Pro) are supported for Mechanical APDL, ANSYS Meshing,
DesignModeler, Mechanical, ANSYS ICEM CFD, and CFD-Post for graphics manipulation on Windows x64.
Selection operations still require a mouse.
3D/ Stereo Visualization
3D/Stereo visualization is supported in ANSYS CFD-Post
Stereo-enabled hardware required; tested internally on Planar and Zalman stereo monitors

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 ANSYS Quality Assurance Services
(NQA1)
ANSYS Quality Assurance Services provide certification for nuclear industry
customers
Verification testing packages enable on-site certification
These QA services are supported only for platforms supported in the initial
release
Customers should refer to each release's Installation Guide for details on which
platforms are supported at initial release.
Contact the ANSYS, Inc. Corporate Quality Group for information about
ANSYS, Inc.'s QA Services.
qad@ansys.com

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