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Breaking News - Platforms:
ANSYS To Deliver Cost-Effective 64-Bit Computing Software
ANSYS Inc announced that the upcoming ANSYS 9.0 release will be ported to the
AMD Opteron processor running the SuSE version of the Linux operating system.
The AMD Opteron processor allows companies to preserve their investments in
32-bit applications, while providing a transition path to 64-bit computing for
those projects demanding high-performance capabilities.
"With design cycles shortening, users want the highest-performing processors
to keep up with their increasingly intense software needs," said Ben Williams,
vice president of AMD's Enterprise and Server/Workstation Business Segment.
"By porting ANSYS software to the AMD64 platform, ANSYS users will have the
power and speed to quickly create their simulation runs and be unhindered by
processor limitations."
In addition to being extremely fast, future ANSYS 9.0 customers who purchase
systems based on the AMD Opteron processor will find it very cost effective.
Plus, with the AMD Opteron processor price performance, customers using ANSYS
products as their distributed domain solver or probabilistic design system may
want to consider clustering their machines to run distributed processing
applications.
Currently, the newly released ANSYS ICEM CFD and AI*Environment 5.0 is ported
to the AMD Opteron processor platform enabling customer to access more than
2GB of memory, and thus, tackle problems of almost unlimited size.
Additionally, ANSYS CFX-5.7 has been tested on AMD Opteron processor-based
systems under both Windows and Linux, and has shown excellent stability and
performance. Together, CFX-5 and the AMD Opteron processor have shown linear
parallel scalability in Windows-based x86-class workstations. The next major
release of CFX-5 will support the large memory access provided by the 64-bit
capability of the AMD Opteron processor.
"Customers who try ANSYS on the AMD64 platform should be pleased with both the
price and the speed at which they can run their design calculations on their
systems," said Mike Wheeler, vice president and general manager of the
Mechanical Business Unit at ANSYS Inc. "We realize the importance of having
optimal performing systems to maximize the capabilities of our software, and
we're committed to helping facilitate that."
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