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ANSYS Computing Platform Support

March 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) x86 Windows XP (32-bit)

Last release

N/A

x64 Windows Vista (64-bit) x86 Windows Vista (32-bit)

Last Release

N/A N/A

x64 Windows 7 (64-bit) x86 Windows 7 (32-bit) Professional and Enterprise Editions only

Last 32-bit release

64-bit 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 batch only

Some applications batch only

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ANSYS Platform Support – 64-bit Linux

Platform ANSYS 14.5 ANSYS 15.0 2014 Releases / ANSYS 16.0

x64 / RHEL 5 (64-bit) 5.7, 5.8, 5.9

N/A

x64 / RHEL 6 (64-bit) 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

6.3, 6.4

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

If feasible

x64 / SLES 10 (64-bit) Last release

N/A N/A

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

x64 / SLES 11 SP2 (64-bit)

x64 / SLES 11 SP3 (64-bit) -

• Some applications are not supported on Linux (see tables below)

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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 customer agreements only

Under special customer 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

Workbench Hosted Applications

32-bit Windows XP, Windows 7

64-bit Windows XP, Windows 7,

Windows 8, 8.1

64-bit SLES 11 64-bit RHEL 5 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

* Not available on Windows 8, 8.1

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ANSYS 15.0 Supported Platforms Ansoft derived Electronics Product Line

ANSYS supports the following platforms for interactive or batch execution of the following applications

Applications Outside of Workbench

32-bit Windows XP Pro,

Windows 7 on x64


Windows 7 on x64


on x64

64-bit Windows HPC

Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 (Std. edition)

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

Applications Outside of Workbench


Windows 7 on x86


Windows 7 Windows 8, 8.1

on x64


on x64

64-bit Windows HPC

Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 (Std.

edition) 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

Workbench Hosted CAD Readers



Windows 8, 8.1

64-bit SLES 11

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

Workbench Hosted CAD Plug-Ins



Windows 8, 8.1

64-bit SLES 11

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 YES1 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

1. Not available on Windows XP 2. Not available on Windows 8 3. Please see the help documentation for specific requirements

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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 Windows / 64-bit

IBM Platform MPI 9.1.0.1 Intel MPI 4.1.028



Windows HPC Server 2008 / 2012

Microsoft HPC Pack (MS MPI)


Linux / x64 IBM Platform MPI 9.1 Intel MPI 4.1.030

IBM Platform MPI 9.1 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



Windows HPC Server 2008 /2012




Linux / x64

IBM Platform MPI 9.1 Intel MPI 4.1.030 OpenMPI 1.6.5

IBM Platform MPI 9.1 Intel MPI 4.1.030 OpenMPI 1.6.5

IBM Platform MPI 9.1 OpenMPI 1.6.5

Cray MPI *

* 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



Windows HPC Server 2008 /2012




Linux / x64



IBM Platform MPI 9.1

Cray MPI *

* Cray MPI is supported on Cray XE systems

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Supported Remote Display Devices 15.0

Exceed on Demand*

RealVNC** Nice DCV*** Remote Desktop for Windows

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

Windows 7,8 / 64-bit

Client support Client support Client support Client Support Server Support

Linux / x64

Client 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.

• [email protected]

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