Ansys: Difference between revisions

The Ansys [https://www.ansys.com/it-solutions/platform-support Platform Support] link states "the current release has been tested to read and open databases from the five previous releases" and also provides detailed software and hardware compatibility information for the current and previous releases is also given.  A summary about what's new in the current release for each application can be found in the [https://www.ansys.com/products/release-highlights Product Release and Updates] link.

Ansys regularly releases service packs to fix various issues with its major releases.  Therefore starting with Ansys 2024 a separate ansys module will appear on the clusters with a decimal and two digits appearing after the release number whenever a service pack is been installed over the initial release.  For example, the initial 2024 release without any service pack applied maybe loaded by doing <code>module load ansys/2024R1</code> while a module with Service Pack 3 applied maybe loaded by doing <code>module load ansys/2024R1.03</code> instead. Most users will likely want to load the latest module version equipped with latest installed service pack which can be achieved by simply doing <code>module load ansys</code>.  While its not expected that service packs will impact numerical results, if computations have already been done with the initial release or an earlier service pack than some groups may prefer to continue using it.  For ansys 2024R1 a detail description of what each service pack does maybe found by searching this  [https://storage.ansys.com/staticfiles/cp/Readme/release2024R1/info_combined.pdf link] for <I>Service Pack Details</I>.