High-Performance Computing

High-performance computing (HPC) is an important consideration for academia. Complex research projects can involve simulating large assemblies, even entire systems, which requires far greater computational resources and accuracy. The widespread availability of multi-core processors, even in laptops, allows for impressive performance gains on medium- to large-problem sizes. The ANSYS Academic products provide two levels of HPC:

  • Built-in HPC: HPC capability is built into each task of the Academic base licenses. For Structural,Thermal & Fluid Dynamics Academic products this is both shared & distributed memory HPC capability for up to four cores, plus GPU access is enabled for ANSYS Mechanical solvers. For RF & Electromagnetics product the built-in capability is shared memory only.
  • Add-on HPC: The built-in HPC capability can be extended by purchasing additional ANSYS Academic HPC licenses. For Structural, Thermal and Fluid Dynamics Academic products both shared & distributed memory HPC capability can be extended. For RF and Electromagnetics Academic Products the add-on capability only enables the ANSYS HFSS Distributed Domain solver.

The following table table illustrates the Academic products with their corresponding HPC options:

Product/Family Built-in
HPC?		 Can extend HPC
with add-on
HPC licenses?
ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE    
ANSYS Academic Associate YES YES
ANSYS Academic Associate CFD YES YES
ANSYS Academic Associate HF YES YES
ANSYS Academic Associate EM YES NO
ACADEMIC RESEARCH    
ANSYS Academic Research YES YES
ANSYS Academic Research Mechanical YES YES
ANSYS Academic Research CFD YES YES
ANSYS Academic Research Autodyn YES YES
ANSYS Academic Research Electronics Thermal YES YES
ANSYS Academic Research Offshore/Marine1 NO NO
ANSYS Academic Research Polyflow YES YES
ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA NO N/A
ANSYS Academic Research HF YES YES
ANSYS Academic Research EM YES NO
ACADEMIC TEACHING    
ANSYS Academic Teaching Advanced YES NO
ANSYS Academic Teaching Introductory YES NO
ANSYS Academic Teaching Mechanical YES NO
ANSYS Academic Teaching CFD YES NO
ANSYS Academic Teaching HF YES NO
ANSYS Academic Teaching EM YES NO
ACADEMIC TOOLBOX    
ANSYS Academic Meshing Tools N/A N/A
ANSYS Academic CFD Turbo Tools N/A N/A
ANSYS Academic Fuel Cell Tools N/A N/A


1: ANSYS Asas and ANSYS Aqwa have no HPC capability

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Built-in HPC Built-in HPC

All of the ANSYS Academic Structural, Thermal, Fluid Dynamics products that support HPC have four core HPC capability per task built in. This capability is allocated/restricted to each task. For example, for a 25-task license of Academic Research, each user/task can access up to four cores, with a maximum of 4 cores available per solution.

All of the ANSYS Academic RF and Electromagnetics products that support SMP HPC (Maxwell & HFSS) have four core Shared memory parrallel HPC capability per task built in. This capability is allocated/restricted to each task. For example, for a 25-task license of Academic Research EM, each user/task can access up to four SMP cores, with a maximum of 4 SMP cores available per solution.

Summary

4 core SMP & DMP HPC built-in for these solvers:

  • ANSYS CFX
  • ANSYS Fluent
  • ANSYS Mechanical
  • ANSYS Multiphysics
  • ANSYS Autodyn
  • ANSYS Polyflow
  • ANSYS Icepak

4 core SMP HPC built-in for these solvers:

  • ANSYS HFSS
  • ANSYS Maxwell

 

Built-in 4 core HPC allows:

  • 1 x dual-core SMP
  • 2 x dual-core SMP
  • 1 x quad-core SMP
  • 2 - 4 single-core SMP
  • ANSYS Mechanical DANSYS for
    2 - 4 processors

 

Add-on HPC Add-on HPC

All ANSYS Academic Research and ANSYS Academic Associate products can extend their built-in HPC capability with add-on HPC licenses:

  • Research customers can add on more HPC via ANSYS Academic Research HPC licenses.
  • Associate customers can add on more HPC via ANSYS Academic Associate HPC licenses.

One task of ANSYS Academic Research/Associate HPC extends the base HPC ability of any one of the physics that supports HPC that is contained in the base product. Each task adds another core.

For Structural, Thermal & Fluid Dynamics Academic products both shared & distributed memory HPC capability can be extended with our “physics neutral” HPC add-on products called ANSYS Academic Research HPC and ANSYS Academic Associate HPC. These products are sold per task and extend the HPC capability of the following solvers:

  • ANSYS CFX
  • ANSYS Fluent
  • ANSYS Mechanical
  • ANSYS Multiphysics
  • ANSYS Autodyn
  • ANSYS Polyflow
  • ANSYS Icepak

For RF & Electromagnetics Academic Products the add-on HPC capability only enables the ANSYS HFSS Distributed Domain solver. The add-on products are called ANSYS Academic Research HPC HF and ANSYS Academic Associate HPC HF. The “HF” postscript identifies the fact that these add-on HPC products only apply to the HFSS “HF” solver.

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