6 September 2007 ANSYS and CFX

Licenses for ANSYS and CFX (now owned by ANSYS) have been renewed. ANSYS has imposed new a license term which must be individually accepted before access can be granted to ANSYS or CFX. Visit the software link from the HPC home page (http://hpc.ncsu.edu/) and the select the button by ANSYS and CFX to request access.

ANSYS license also allows only a single version of ANSYS to be in use on campus. That version is now version 11. Default CFX version is also being changed to version 11 to be consistient with the ANSYS version.

Also only 64-bit versions of ANSYS and CFX are currently available. These versions will not run on the default login nodes. Use login03 to access the GUIs for ANSYS or CFX and add "-R em64t" option on bsub commands for jobs using ANSYS or CFX to ensure the job is scheduled on a 64-bit compute node.