[mariam.sara]

I am attempt to use more than PC in my simulations to increase run speed There is an option available in ANSYS 15 setup called as install MPI for ANSYS parallel processing when I press this option it take me into two other options i.e.: Install Intel MPI & Install Platform MPI? my question which of these options better to select?
After that how can the computers be connected into each other?

Thanks in advance
mariam

[ghost82]

Hi, check my posts here for tutorials (win and linux):
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/flu...band-win7.html

[mariam.sara]

Hi Thanks gost82 for the valuable files you sent and sorry if i be late with sending you this replay. I need to ask is Microsoft Developer Studio 10.0 installed automatically when I install MPI?

[ghost82]

Hi, I don't know if I understand correctly: if you mean visual studio 10, then no, it is not installed and it is not part of the ansys suite. You need to install it as a separate package.

[mariam.sara]

Hi again ghost82 if you look at the pdf file you sent above page 5 and exactly at setting Environment Variables you mentioned the path for Microsoft Visual Studio 10 ? if I not installed it yet at machine 1 can I use MPI option or no?

[ghost82]

Yes, of course you can use it, for parallel calculations both on local machine and across different nodes.
You can also interpret udfs without visual studio.
Visual studio is only needed to compile udfs.

[mariam.sara]

ًWell if i not use udf within my simulations can I ignore it and not set its path in environment variables?

[ghost82]

Yes, you can ignore visual studio installation and its related environment variables (so do not ignore all environment variables!That related to fluent must be set).

[mariam.sara]

Actually I have Microsoft Developer Studio 6.0 installed at my first machine? can i use it instead of MDS 10 and set its path too?

Thanks
mariam

[ghost82]

I never used visual studio 6, so I don't know if the setup is as the version 10.0 or 2013; when I started compiling udfs, the last version was 10.0; what I did was to install v.10.0, read the wiki and set that version to work with fluent.