ANSYS Academic customers can now benefit from High Perfomance Computing (HPC). For structural, thermal & electromagnetics physics, users can take advantage of 2 processors/cores without the need to add-on an Academic HPC product. However, when you need more than two processors/cores ANSYS Academic HPC licenses are available on a per processor (per core or per thread) basis for four different "physics" for use with Academic Research products as follows:
- For structural, thermal & electromagnetics, one Academic Mechanical HPC license is required per processor above 2 processors
- For CFX CFD , one Academic CFD HPC license is required per processor/core.
- For AUTODYN explict dynamics, one Academic AUTODYN HPC license is required per processor/core.
- For ANSYS LS-DYNA explicit dynamics, one Academic LS-DYNA HPC license is required per processor/core.
Academic Associate customers can make use of the ANSYS commercial HPC products.
The following table provides further details of the HPC capability:
| Product Name | Without a HPC Product: | HPC add-on available? | When HPC Product is added1: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMP2 | DANSYS3 | SMP |
DMP(MPP) |
DANSYS |
VT Accelerator |
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| ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE | |||||||
| ANSYS Academic Associate | 2 proc. max |
2 proc. max |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
ANSYS Academic Associate AUTODYN |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| ACADEMIC RESEARCH | |||||||
| ANSYS Academic Research | 2 proc. max |
2 proc. max |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ANSYS Academic Research CFD | No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| ANSYS Academic Research AUTODYN | No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA | No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| ACADEMIC TEACHING | |||||||
| ANSYS Academic Teaching Advanced | 2 proc. max |
2 proc. max |
No |
Not Applicable |
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| ANSYS Academic Teaching Introductory | 2 proc. max |
2 proc. max |
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| ANSYS Academic Teaching Mechanical | 2 proc. max |
2 proc. max |
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| ANSYS Academic Teaching CFD | No |
No |
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| ANSYS Academic Teaching AUTODYN | No |
No |
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Notes:
1. Abbreviations:
SMP = Shared Memory Parallel
DMP = Distributed Memory Parallel
MMP= Multiple Memory Processors
VT = Variational Technology
DANSYS = Distributed ANSYS2. "SMP without HPC" refers to the NPROC=2 SMP ability provided for DesignSpace, Mechanical & Multiphysics capability. This does not apply to the ANSYS CFX or ANSYS TAS capability included in these products.
3. "DANSYS without HPC" refers to the NPROC=2 DANSYS ability provided for Mechanical & Multiphysics capability. This does not apply to the ANSYS DesignSpace, ANSYS CFX or ANSYS TAS capability included in these products.