ANSYS
11.0 SP1 Supported Interconnects
The below
table shows which interconnects are expected to work with Distributed
ANSYS. The table also show supported MPI versions for ANSYS 11.0 SP1.
Legacy information
(for ANSYS 10.0) is available here: ANSYS
10.0 Supported Interconnects.
Legacy
information (for ANSYS 9.0 and earlier) is available here: Legacy Parallel-Processing Information.
|
Platform |
Ethernet |
GiGE |
Myrinet |
**Infiniband |
Quadrics |
ANSYS Supported MPI Version And Who Supplies It |
|
Fujitsu |
Yes |
Yes* |
No |
No |
No |
Parallelnavi 2.1 (Hardware Vendor) |
|
HP PA8000 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
HP MPI 2.2.5 (Hardware Vendor) |
|
HP-UX IA64 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
HP MPI 2.2.5 (Hardware Vendor) |
|
IBM |
Yes |
Yes* |
No |
No |
No |
POE v4.2.2.3(Hardware Vendor) |
|
Linux IA32 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
HP MPI v2.2.5 (On ANSYS Media) |
|
Linux IA64 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
HP MPI v2.2.5 (On ANSYS Media) SGI MPI 4.5 MPT 1.14 Altix (Hardware Vendor) |
|
Linux EM64T |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
HP MPI v2.2.5 (On ANSYS Media) |
|
Linux AMD Opteron |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes* |
HP MPI v2.2.5 (On ANSYS Media) |
|
SGI |
Yes |
Yes* |
No |
No |
No |
SGI MPI 4.3, MPT 1.8 (Hardware Vendor) |
|
Sun |
Yes |
Yes* |
No |
No |
No |
HPC CLUSTERTOOLS 5.0 (Hardware Vendor) |
|
Windows 32-bit / Windows XP and Windows 2000 |
N/A |
N/A |
No |
No |
No |
MPICH2 |
|
Windows 64-bit/Windows XP x64 |
N/A |
N/A |
No |
No |
No |
MPICH2 |
|
Windows 64-bit / Windows Server 2003 and x64 Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack (MS MPI) |
*
These interconnects are expected to work, but have not been tested by ANSYS,
Inc.
** Not all
Infiniband protocols are valid for every Vendor's firmware. The user will
need to be aware of the Infiniband protocol they are purchasing in conjunction
with their Hardware.
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