Platform & Hardware

Support Notes

July 2014

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Contents
Computing Platform Trends..page 3

Server: see Remote Display Support PDF on

Servers
Workstations

Platform Support Roadmap

Windows: see multi-page Platform Support

Roadmap PDF on Platform Support home page

Linux: see multi-page Platform Support Roadmap
PDF on Platform Support home page
Solaris: see multi-page Platform Support
Roadmap PDF on Platform Support home page

Platform Support Notes...page 4

ANSYS 15.0 Platform Support
By application: see Platform Support PDF on

Platform Support home page

CAD: see CAD Support PDF on Platform Support
home page
Electronics: see Electronics Support PDF on
Platform Support home page
Interconnects: see Interconnects Support on
Platform Support home page
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Remote Display Support

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Platform Support home page

Client: see Remote Display Support PDF on
Platform Support home page

Remote Solver Manager Notespage 5

Tested Graphics Cards
AMD: see Graphics Cards Support PDF on

Platform Support home page

NVIDIA: see Graphics Cards Support PDF on
Platform Support home page

Other Platform Related Issues

Job Schedulers.page 5
GP-GPU accelerator support.page 6
Virtualization, Cloud Computing..page 7

ANSYS Quality Assurance Servicespage 8

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 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 Remote Solve Manager Notes

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 R2

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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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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