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High-performance computing (HPC) is an important part of academia. The widespread availability of multi-core processors, even in laptops, allows for impressive performance gains on medium to large problem sizes. The ANSYS Academic HPC strategy provides two levels of HPC, “built-in” and “add-on” described below:
| Product/Family | Built-in 4 HPC? |
Can access additional HPC? |
| ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE | ||
| ANSYS Academic Associate | YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Associate CFD | YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Associate HPC | N/A |
N/A |
| 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 HPC | N/A |
N/A |
| ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA2 | NO |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA HPC | N/A |
N/A |
| 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 |
| ACADEMIC STUDENT | ||
| ANSYS ED (10.0) | NO |
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 |
Note 1: ANSYS ASAS & ANSYS AQWA have no HPC capability
Note 2: ANSYS LS-DYNA HPC is not part of ANSYS Academic Research HPC, instead, the Academic ANSYS Research LS-DYNA HPC is used
Built-In HPC: Generally, all academic products that support HPC have four HPC (4 processor, SMP) capability per task built-in. The built-in HPC capability is allocated/restricted to each task. Example: For a 25 task license of Academic Research, each user/task can access 4 HPC tasks, with a maximum of 4 HPC tasks applied per solution. Summary:
Add-On HPC: Generally, all Academic Research & Associate level products can extend their HPC capability with add-on HPC tasks. The add-on HPC tasks are contained in physics neutral HPC 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:
Research customers can add on more HPC via ANSYS Academic Research HPC tasks. Associate customers can add on more HPC via Academic Associate HPC tasks. One task 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.
