[ngj_22]

Hi,

I have questions about some hardware for simulating turbulent flow (LES) with Fluent 12.1.

We are thinking of buying a 24 core computer (4 x Intel Xeon E7530 6C/12T 1.86 GHz 12Mb processors) with 64 GB RAM and 8x300 GB Hard Disk.

We got an offer for the computer with a lot of technical data and as I’m not very technical person I have difficult to see if there will be some problems running Fluent by parallel computing using all 24 CPUs? (If we have the ANSYS HPC license).

We also want to run on a Linux platform and I can see that the computer is certified for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 (x86_64) and [XEN] (x86_64) and also for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (x86_64) and [XEN] (x86_64). Are these Linux versions expensive or are there other free versions you can use if they are supported by the computer?

Can anyone give me suggestions if the hardware is ok for LES simulations and which considerations I need to do before buying the computer? And if I can run Fluent 12.1 on these Linux versions?

Thanks
Nina