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GPU acceleration on ANSYS Fluent 14.5

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TDIMeister

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Feb 18, 2002
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Hello, I hope someone here is able to help give me a definitive answer to my queries. Fluent 14.5 has support for utilizing a supported NVIDIA GPUs to off-load some computation tasks from the CPU with an HPC License (which my institution has). What is not clear from the literature I've read is whether this capability is for a specific set of NVIDIA cards per ANSYS or more general as suggested by NVIDIA. The ANSYS sales reps with whom I'm made this inquiry are also unaware or unsure of this. The published demonstrations I've see utilize Tesla K20 cards, e.g. see attached link. I know there's always a distinction between the definitions of "qualified," "supported," "certified," "tested" and variants when talking about engineering software. We have workstations that variously have NVIDIA Quadro cards and I'm doing my Fluent CFD work on a high-end laptop with a GeForce GTX580M with 2GB RAM, but not one of the cards listed in the attached.

My questions are:
1.) Can I exploit GPU acceleration on the abovementioned GPUs not expressly listed by ANSYS?
2.) Does the software poll the GPU ID to determine whether to support GPU acceleration?
3.) Can GPU acceleration be forced to be enabled?

Thanks in advance.
 
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To clarify my above post, my laptop has 2GB video RAM and 32GB system RAM.
 
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