Ansys Lumerical Product supports a variety of operating systems and hardware.
Ansys platform support
You can find various support information for the latest release on the Ansys Platform Support page.
Key articles from that page are as follows:
- Platform Support by Application / Product: Details supported operating systems
- GPU Compute Capabilities: Details supported GPUs
- Job Schedulers and Queuing Systems Support: Details supported HPC schedulers
- Message Passing Interface Support for Parallel Computing: Details supported message passing interfaces (MPIs)
Notes
- Ansys Lumerical products only support 64-bit editions of x86 processors (Intel®/AMD®)
- ARM processors are not supported.
- Ansys Lumerical Multiphysics™ and the Modern Viewport on Ansys Lumerical FDTD™ uses a 3D rendering and visualization library that requires a compliant implementation of OpenGL 3.2+ or DirectX 11. For optimal performance, please install them directly on a locally accessible host computer with adequate graphics resources and up-to-date graphics drivers. There is limited support on systems without compliant graphics drivers, including virtual machines and remote desktop interfaces.
See also
Information on Hardware Specifications
Ansys Optics installation guide