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ANSYS 14.5 Computing Platform Support Summary

October 2012

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October 8, 2012

Outline
Computing platform trends and support roadmap

• Windows • Linux • Solaris
ANSYS 14.5 Platform Support

• By application
Other Platform Related Issues

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MPI and Interconnect technology Job Schedulers GP-GPU accelerator support Tested graphics cardsVirtualization, 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 processoroptimization. Pursue GPU acceleration where feasible.
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ANSYS Platform Support - Windows

Platform
x64 / Windows XP (32-bit/64-bit) x64 / Windows Enterprise Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) x64 / Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) x64 / Windows Vista (32-bit/64-bit)

ANSYS 14.0
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Varies by application, see tables

ANSYS 14.5
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Varies by application, seetables

ANSYS 15.0
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Last release

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Varies by application, see tables

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Batch only

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Batch only

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Batch only

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Last Release

x64 / Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit)
x64 / Windows 8 (64 bit) X64 / Windows Server 2012 (64 bit)
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Will evaluate postrelease -

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Last 32-bit release

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Iffeasible

ANSYS Platform Support – 64-bit Linux

Platform
Itanium / Linux
(including SGI ProPack)

ANSYS 14.0
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Last release

ANSYS 14.5

ANSYS 15.0

x64 / RHEL 4 (64-bit) x64 / RHEL 5.3 and above (64-bit) x64 / RHEL 6.0 and above (64-bit) x64 / SLES 10 SP2 and above (64-bit) x64 / SLES 11 SP1 (64-bit) x64 / SLES 11 SP2 (64-bit) x64 / SLES 12 (64-bit)

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Last release Ansoft

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Last release

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If feasible / Last release

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If feasible

• Some applications are not supported on Linux (see tables below) • The ANSYS License Manager is also supported on 32-bit Linux platforms (see appendix)
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ANSYS Platform Support – 32-bit Linux

Platformx86 / RHEL 5 (32 bit)

ANSYS 14.0
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ANSYS 14.5
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Last Release

ANSYS 15.0

x86 / SLES 10 (32 bit)
x86 / SLES 11 SP1 (32 bit) x86 / SLES 11 SP2 (32 bit)

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Last Release

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Last Release

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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 PlatformSupport - Solaris

Platform Solaris 10 / SPARC (64-bit) Solaris 10 / x86 (64-bit)

ANSYS 14.0
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Last release

ANSYS 14.5
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ANSYS 15.0
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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
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