Platform Support 14.5 Detailed Summary

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ANSYS 14.5 Computing Platform Support Summary

March 2013

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Outline

Computing platform trends and support roadmap

• Windows

• Linux

• Solaris

ANSYS 14.5 Platform Support

• By application

Other Platform Related Issues

• MPI and Interconnect technology

• Job Schedulers

• GP-GPU accelerator support

• Tested graphics cards

• Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Remote Display

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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 Server 2008

● 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 dominant, both 64-bit and 32-bit

• 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 14.0 ANSYS 14.5 ANSYS 15.0

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

Last release

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

Varies by application, see tables



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

Batch only

Batch only

Batch only

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

Last Release

x64 Windows 7 (64-bit) x86 Windows 7 (32-bit)

Last 32-bit release

x64 / Windows 8 (64 bit) -

X64 / Windows Server 2012 (64 bit) - - If feasible

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ANSYS Platform Support – 64-bit Linux


Itanium / Linux (including SGI ProPack)

Last release

x64 / RHEL 4 (64-bit) Last release

x64 / RHEL 5 (64-bit)

x64 / RHEL 6 (64-bit)

X64 / RHEL 7 Will evaluate post-release

x64 / SLES 10 (64-bit) Last release Ansoft

Last release

If feasible / Last release

x64 / SLES 11 SP1 (64-bit)

x64 / SLES 11 SP2 (64-bit) -

x64 / SLES 12 (64-bit) - - If feasible

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

• The ANSYS License Manager is also supported on 32-bit Linux platforms (next slide)

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ANSYS Platform Support – 32-bit Linux


x86 / RHEL 5 (32 bit) Last Release

x86 / SLES 10 (32 bit) Last Release

x86 / SLES 11 SP1 (32 bit) Last Release

x86 / SLES 11 SP2 (32 bit) - Last Release

Note that only the License Manager is supported on 32-bit Linux. ANSYS applications require 64-bit Linux.

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ANSYS Platform Support - Solaris


Solaris 10 / SPARC (64-bit)

Solaris 10 / x86 (64-bit) Last release

Note that only the License Manager is supported on Solaris. ANSYS and Ansoft applications are not supported on Solaris.

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ANSYS 14.5 - LINUX Support Notes

ANSYS supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Novell SuSE Enterprise Linux (SLES / SLED)

• RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 • SLES / SLED 10, 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 Novell Linux releases.

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ANSYS 14.5 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 Vista,

Windows 7

64-bit

Windows XP,

Windows Vista,

Windows 7,

Windows 8

64-bit SLES 10

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

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ANSYS 14.5 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 (1)

64-bit

Windows XP Pro,

Windows 7

on x64 (1)

64-bit SLES 10

64-bit SLES 11

64-bit RHEL 5

64-bit RHEL 6

on x64 (2)

64-bit

Windows HPC

Server 2008 R2

Or

Windows

Server 2008

on x64

Designer 8.0(*) Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive

HFSS 15.0 (*) Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive

Maxwell 16.0(*) Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive

Q3D Extractor 12.0(*) Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive

Simplorer 11.0(*) Interactive Interactive Interactive

SIwave 7.0 Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive

TPA 8.0 Interactive Interactive Interactive Interactive

Unique platform issues and notes: (1) Windows Vista is not supported (*) These products can run Standalone or as Workbench-Hosted applications

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ANSYS 14.5 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

32-bit

Windows XP Pro,

Windows Vista,

Windows 7

on x86

64-bit

Windows XP Pro,

Windows Vista,

Windows 7

Windows 8

on x64

64-bit SLES 10

64-bit SLES 11

64-bit RHEL 5

64-bit RHEL 6

on x64

64-bit

Windows

HPC Server

2008 R2

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 EKM Server is supported on XP and Windows 7 but NOT supported on Windows VISTA ** ANSYS EKM Server is also supported on Windows Enterprise Server 2008 R2 (x64) *** ANSYS AQWA and ANSYS ASAS are not available on Windows 8

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ANSYS 14.5 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

32-bit

Windows XP,

Windows Vista,

Windows 7

64-bit

Windows XP,

Windows Vista

Windows 7

64-bit

SLES 10, SLES 11

RHEL 5, RHEL 6

ACIS (22) YES YES YES

ANSYS BladeGen (14.5) YES YES

CATIA V4 (4.2) YES YES

CATIA V5 (V5-6R2012) YES YES

CATIA V5 CADNexus CAPRI CAE Gateway (V5R20, V5R21, V5-6R2012) YES YES

CATIA V5 CADNexus CAPRI CAE Gateway (V5R19)) YES** YES**

Creo Elements/Pro (ProEngineer) – Creo Parametric 1.0 YES YES

GAMBIT (2.4) YES YES YES

IGES (4.0, 5.2, 5.3) YES YES YES

Autodesk Inventor (2012) YES YES

JT Open (8.0, 8.1) YES YES

Monte Carlo N-Particle – for ANSYS Design Modeler YES YES YES

NX (8.0) YES YES

Parasolid (24.1) YES YES YES

Solid Edge ST4 YES YES

SolidWorks (2012) YES YES

STEP (AP203, AP214) YES YES YES

(**) Win7 tested by ANSYS, but not supported by the CAD vendor

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ANSYS 14.5 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

32-bit

Windows XP,

Windows Vista,

Windows 7

64-bit

Windows XP,

Windows Vista

Windows 7**

64-bit

SLES 10, SLES 11

RHEL 5, RHEL 6

Autodesk AutoCAD (2013) YES* YES*

Autodesk AutoCAD (2012) YES YES

Creo Elements/Direct Modeling (18.1, 18.0, 17.0) YES YES

Creo Elements/Pro (ProEngineer) - Creo Parametric 2.0 YES* YES*+ Creo Elements/Pro (ProEngineer) - Creo Parametric 1.0 YES* YES*

Creo Elements/Pro (ProEngineer) - Wildfire 5.0 YES YES

Autodesk Inventor 2013 YES* YES*

Autodesk Inventor 2012 YES YES

NX 8.0 YES YES RH 6 and SLES 11 SP1

NX 7.5 YES YES RH 5.3 and SLES 10 SP2

NX 6.0 YES YES SLES 10 SP2

Solid Edge ST5 YES*** YES***

Solid Edge ST4 YES YES

Solid Edge ST3 YES** YES**

SolidWorks 2013 YES*** YES***

SolidWorks (2011, 2012) YES YES

TeamCenter Engineering 9.1 (NX 8.0) YES* YES*

TeamCenter Unified 8.3 (NX 7.5.2) YES* YES*

TeamCenter Unified 8.3 (NX 7.5) YES* YES*

(*) Not available on Windows VISTA, (**) Not available on Windows 7, (***) Not available on Windows XP, (+) Available on Windows 8

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ANSYS 14.5 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*

● Platform MPI (formerly HP 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 14.5

Ethernet/GIGE Infiniband Myrinet

Windows / 32-bit Windows / 64-bit

Platform MPI 8.2.1 Intel MPI 4.0.3



Windows HPC Server 2008

Microsoft HPC Pack (MS MPI)


Linux / x64 Platform MPI 8.2 Intel MPI 4.0.3

Platform MPI 8.2 Intel MPI 4.0.3

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Supported Interconnects ANSYS Fluent 14.5


Windows / 32-bit Platform MPI 8.2.1 Intel MPI 4.0.3

Windows / 64-bit







Linux / x64

Platform MPI 8.2 Intel MPI 4.0.3 OpenMPI 1.3.3

Platform MPI 8.2 Intel MPI 4.0.3 OpenMPI 1.3.3

Platform MPI 8.2 OpenMPI 1.3.3

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Supported Interconnects ANSYS CFX 14.5


Windows / 32-bit Platform MPI 8.2.1 Intel MPI 4.0.3 **

Windows / 64-bit

Platform MPI 8.2.1 Intel MPI 4.0.3 **

Platform MPI 8.2.1 Intel MPI 4.0.3 **





Linux / x64

Platform MPI 8.2 Intel MPI 4.0.3 **

Platform MPI 8.2 Intel MPI 4.0.3 **

Platform MPI 8.2

** Intel MPI is beta capability in ANSYS CFX 14.5 PVM and MPICH are also available on Linux

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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)

• Windows HPC

● Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 or above (minimum of SP2 is preferred)

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. (See speaker notes)

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GPU Acceleration ANSYS Mechanical 14.5 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 Quadro 6000 card

• NVIDIA Quadro K5000

• NVIDIA Tesla K10 should be supported when available

• NVIDIA Tesla K20 should be supported when available

• NVIDIA Quadro K6000 should be supported when available

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Tested Graphics Cards – R14.5

ANSYS tested R14.5 with the following graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA:

• AMD FirePro V3700, V3900, V7800, V8800, W5000, W7000, W8000, W9000

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 580, 3800, FX 4600, FX 5500, FX 5600, FX 5800

• NVIDIA Quadro 410, 600, 2000, 3800M, 4000M

• NVIDIA Tesla C2050 / Quadro FX 5800

• NVIDIA Quadro K5000

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Other Platform Policies and Requirements Virtualization • ANSYS does not formally support use of our software on virtual machines at R14 and R14.5. • At R15, ANSYS 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.

Remote display (Exceed, VNC, NX) • ANSYS does not certify or support remote display options, but is moving to do so at R15 • These options are subject to local implementation issues (e.g., network environment)

Mobile Device Support • ANSYS 14.5 does not support mobile devices.

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. 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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