ANSYS

Introduction

ANSYS (external link) is a commercial suite of programs for engineering simulation, including fluid dynamics (Fluent and CFX), structural analysis (ANSYS Mechanical) and electromagnetics/electronics software.

Typically, researchers will install ANSYS on their own computers to develop models in a graphical user interface and then run simulations that exceed their local hardware capabilities on ARC.

The software can be downloaded, upon approval, from the Software Distribution web site.

ANSYS is available to all U of C researchers with an ARC account, but, with licensing restrictions as outlined in the next section.= Licensing considerations =

For many years, Information Technologies has provided a limited number of license tokens for ANSYS software, sometimes supplemented by contributions from researchers. The software contract is typically renewed annually in August. If you are interested in contributing to the pool of licenses, you can write to the IT Help Desk itsupport@ucalgary.ca and ask that your email be redirected to the IT software librarian.

The discussion that follows relates only to the research version of the software. Note that the conditions of use of the teaching licenses prohibits them from being used for research projects.

At the time of this writing in May 2020, there are 50 basic academic licenses and 512 extended "HPC" license tokens available (with 256 of the latter reserved for a specific research group who purchased their own licenses). The number of tokens available at a given time can be seen by running the following commands on ARC:

module load ansys/2019r2
lmutil lmstat -c 1055@ansyslic.ucalgary.ca -a