High-Performance Computing Solutions Features

Cross-Physics Support Whatever your simulation need, ANSYS HPC provides the parallel processing capability you need to accelerate time-to-solution and solve your highest fidelity problems.  The full portfolio of ANSYS solvers – including ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS AUTODYN, ANSYS FLUENT, ANSYS CFX, ANSYS Icepak, and ANSYS POLYFLOW, - all use the same ANSYS HPC licenses to execute in parallel. Buy once, deploy once and use parallel processing when and where you need it.

Optimized Performance

ANSYS HPC is tuned for optimum performance on the latest multi-core processors from Intel and AMD. Visit our published benchmarks and you’ll see 80-90% efficiency, or better, for single processor performance on a range of simulation workloads. ANSYS and our partners focus on issues like compiler optimization, process affinity setting, multi-core-aware partitioning, and cache tuning in order to ensure peak performance on each new generation of processors. Read more about the performance milestones achieved in ANSYS 12.0.

ANSYS Mechanical 12.0
Dual-Socket Quad-Core Performance
Intel Xeon 5472 (”Harpertown”)

Outstanding Scaling

ANSYS HPC delivers outstanding scaling. Our largest fluids benchmarks yield nearly linear scaling out to 2048 processors reducing turnaround time from hours or days to just minutes.  Mechanical simulations can achieve teraflop compute rates on 100’s of processors. What’s the right scale for your problems? Depending on problem size, our customers typically use 32 to 128 processors for fluids, while more complex mechanical simulations will use 16 to 32 cores.

ANSYS FLUENT 12.0 Scale-Out
SGI Altix ICE 8200EX - 2048 Cores

Architected for High-Fidelity

ANSYS HPC can tackle your largest simulations, solving problem with up to billions of elements for extreme high-fidelity simulation of complex geometries and small scale physical phenomena.  Learn how yacht designers and Formula One teams take advantage of this scalable architecture to consider problems that were considered extreme just a few years ago.

Ease of Use

With ANSYS HPC, you don’t need to be an IT expert or parallel processing guru. With a few simple menu picks, you can setup and launch ANSYS software to execute in parallel on your multi-core workstation or on a remote compute cluster. Everything you need to just install and start working, including MPI (Message Passing Interface) tools, comes bundled with ANSYS software.

Job Scheduler Support

ANSYS software is enabled to support load managers and job schedulers, including Platform LSF, PBSPro, and Microsoft Windows HPC Server. Using GUI panels and/or customizable scripts, ANSYS software can be integrated into your workload management environment with ease.

Choice of HPC Environments

ANSYS HPC provides parallel processing on a range of computing platforms. You can use ANSYS HPC on your multi-core workstation, substantially increasing throughput on single jobs. For workgroups or multiple job execution, clusters running Linux or Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 will provide scalable capacity and performance.  Our MPI-based parallel processing supports gigE or Infiniband interconnects from a variety of vendors and the MPI tools you need come fully bundled with the software. ANSYS software is also Intel Cluster Ready (ICR) certified, ensuring smooth deployment and execution on ICR vendor solutions.

ANSYS Commitment

ANSYS has made a sustained investment in HPC software innovation, culminating in the performance you will see when you use ANSYS HPC solutions today. In fact, we’re well recognized in the HPC industry and our HPC partners invest in us to ensure best in class performance on their latest technologies. Most importantly, HPC is an ongoing focus area for ANSYS, so you can be sure that you’ll get the most from HPC technologies of the future. We’re working now to enable simulations on 10,000 cores or more, with new innovative solver technologies, enhanced usability and scalability across the full simulation process. Choose ANSYS and rest assured that your simulation provider has a roadmap into the HPC future.

Partner Support

ANSYS works with the leaders in HPC, including partners like Intel, AMD, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Dell, and other leading OEMs, resellers, technology vendors, and system integrators.  Our technical collaboration with these partners ensures that you get the coordinated expert support you need at all phases of HPC deployment. From system specification to installation, tuning, troubleshooting and maintenance, our partners can help you minimize risk and increase the productivity of your HPC systems.  Visit our partner solutions showcase and learn which partners are working closely with ANSYS to deliver HPC solutions tuned to your needs.