ANSYS AUTODYN v11.0 Hardware Support

Hardware
Operating Systems
Compilers
Parallel

WINDOWS 2000/XP

Disk Space

Requirement

Minimum: 1.5GB

Recommended: 3 GB +

To verify

  • Start Windows Explorer.

  • Select the icon of the disk on which you are installing AUTODYN.

  • Right-click on that icon and select Properties.

  • Select the General tab folder on the dialog box.

Physical Memory

Requirement

Minimum: 1024 MB

Recommended: 2048 MB +

To verify

  • Start Windows Explorer.

  • Select Help->About Windows.

Virtual Memory

Requirement

Minimum: 1024 MB

Recommended: 2 GB +

To verify

  • Select  Start->Settings->Control Panel from the Task Bar.  

  • Double-click the System icon in the Control Panel.

  • Select the Performance tab folder and locate the Virtual Memory section

Graphics Card (Only required on Windows® Operating Systems)

Requirement

Hardware acceleration for increased graphics performance requires a suitable graphics card:

  • We do not recommend any particular graphics card.

  • AUTODYN is not customized or optimized for any particular graphics card.

  • However, utilization of hardware rendering is via OpenGL, so it is important to pick a card with good support for OpenGL.

To verify

  • Users are encouraged to download the latest drivers directly from the graphics card manufacturer, if any performance issues arise.

   

Supported Operating Systems

 

The fully integrated version of AUTODYN is currently available on the following operating systems:


32 Bit Microsoft Windows

64 Bit Microsoft Windows

In addition, the AUTODYN v11.0 solver is also currently supported on the following Linux based operating systems:

32 Bit Linux - Intel® IA32

Client – Server environment only
RedHat 3.0 & SUSE ES9

64 Bit Linux using Intel® Xeon EM64T

Client – Server environment only
RedHat 3.0 & SUSE ES9

64 Bit Linux using Intel® Itanium2 processor - Intel® IA64

Client – Server environment only
RedHat 3.0

64 Bit Linux using AMD64/Opteron processor

Client – Server environment only
RedHat 3.0 & SUSE ES9

Compilers and Associated Runtime Library Requirements for User Subroutines

System

Fortran

Windows XP

Intel(R) Fortran Compiler v9.0

Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003

RedHat 3.0

Intel Fortran 8.0

Third Party Software Requirements for Parallel

System

Parallel Environment

Windows XP WMPI 1.5.8
RedHat 3.0 HP-MPI 2.2.2

*Supplied with ANSYS AUTODYN