Hi Guys! we're waiting for our new 64 bit machine to arrive. Up to now we've used only 32 bit machines. Do we need a specific 64-bit release of Fluent or we can simply install what we have. Thanks for your attention.

You can (may not be true for all OS's) install the 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine but then your new machine will run in "32-bit mode". If it is a Window-box you have no choice, since there is no 64-bit windows-version of Fluent yet.

I use Linux..ok thank you for your advice.

As already mentioned, you can use the 32bit version, but it will be approx. 25% slower than the 64bit code.

This moment I'm running Fluent on 64bit AMD Dual-Core CPU workstation. My suggestions are:

- you should use 64 bit version of Fluent; - you should use 64 bit version of Linux. - RedHat, Suse, Fedora do not work with Fluent; - the best results I've got were with new Mandriva Linux.

>>> RedHat, Suse, Fedora do not work with Fluent;

We tested all 3 of them - experienced no problems, Fluent runs well! (at the moment we are using Debian)

I have mentioned what CPU's I'm using. Please, check if you have exactly the same CPU.

Yes, it's an AMD64 X2 4200 (dual core).

I'll second that.

wait wait So is ther a 64 bit Fluent?? I `ve heard that version 6.3 will be a 64bit but ...let say Fluent 6.2.16 is 32 bit. Am I right?? Win XP 64 bit (that`s what i am using ) will allow you to extand your RAM memory to 4 GB. Under 32bit u can use 2GB.

There _will_ be a 64bit _windows_ version; but the 64bit linux version already exists for 6.2.16.