Gridgen's Supported Platforms for CFD Mesh Generation
Using the industry-standard
OpenGL® graphics API,
Gridgen's interactivity and 3D graphics are available on a variety of
Windows® (Intel® and AMD®),
Linux® (Intel® and AMD®),
Mac®, and
Unix®
(SGI®,
HP®, and
Sun®),
workstations,
all with the same look and feel and
transportable Gridgen native file. Gridgen's graphical user
interface (GUI) guides engineers through preprocessing, eliminates
extraneous menus, and uses a consistent menu system and nomenclature
for the entire process, from CAD model import/creation through volume
grid generation and analysis software file export. When combined
these features make Gridgen easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to
remember how to use.
Other features of the GUI are:
- mouse or keyboard operation
- "mode-less" image pan, zoom, and rotate
- PostScript®, PNG, BMP and
SGI RGB output
- HTML-based on-line, context-sensitive help
- Heterogeneous license management,
allowing "license once, run anywhere"
- Common GUI and Gridgen native files across all
platforms
All Platforms
Minimum Requirements:
- 128 Mbytes RAM
- 100 Mbytes disk space
- OpenGL capable color display
- Ethernet card
- CD-ROM drive
Recommended Requirements:
- 3D hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics
- double-buffered overlay planes or 24-bit RGB double buffered
graphics
Windows
Gridgen supports Windows on both AMD and Intel.
- Intel IA-32 Architecture
- Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
(Gridgen may operate properly on Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, and 2000 but
this operation is unsupported.)
- at least 1024x768 resolution in High
Color (16 bit) Display Mode
- Compatible Graphics Acclerators*
- NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro
- ATI Rage
- ATI Radeon
- Graphics Accelerators with Known Problems
- NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 - The NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run
driver and RedHat 5.3 have incompatibilities which cause significant
issues with Gridgen's display. Older NVIDIA drivers do not exhibit
this problem.
Linux
Gridgen supports Linux on both AMD and
Intel for both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Linux installations must include:
- libstdc++ libraries
- glibc v2.3.4 libraries
- GNU c++ runtime libraries (v3.4.6+)
- X11R6.8.2 (X.Org or XFree86)
- OpenGL 1.4
Under RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (32 and 64 bit) the specific libraries
and the package from which they may be installed are listed below.
(For other Linux distributions, we recommend using rpmfind.net to
determine which packages to install.):
| libg2c.so.0 |
libf2c 3.4.6 |
| libgcc_s.so.1 |
libgcc 3.4.6 |
| libstdc++.so.6 |
libstdc++ 3.4.6 |
| libpthread.so.0 |
glibc 2.3.4 |
| libm.so.6 |
glibc 2.3.4 |
| libc.so.6 |
glibc 2.3.4 |
| libdl.so.2 |
glibc 2.3.4 |
| /lib/ld-linux.so.2 |
glibc 2.3.4 |
| libGLU.so.1 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 OpenGL driver (1.4) |
| libGL.so.1 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 OpenGL driver (1.4) |
| libGLcore.so.1 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 OpenGL driver (1.4) |
| libXaw.so.7 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 |
| libXmu.so.6 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 |
| libXt.so.6 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 |
| libSM.so.6 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 |
| libICE.so.6 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 |
| libXpm.so.4 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 |
| libXext.so.6 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 |
| libX11.so.6 |
xorg-X11R6.8.2 |
A recommended minimum platform configuration is:
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 with version 1.0-9631 of the
NVidia X.Org binary drivers for NVidia-based graphics cards
To configure overlays and other graphics options for your graphics card,
please refer to your card vendor's documentation.
Gridgen may run on Linux platforms other than the one recommended above
if the required libraries are installed. For users of OpenSuse 10.2 and
10.3, the additional package, compat-f77, may be necessary for
Gridgen to run properly.
Mac
- Apple Mac workstations
- Only Intel-based Macs are supported.
- Mac OS X V10.4 and higher
- X11
- NVidia GeForce Graphics Accelerator
Hewlett-Packard
- HP-UX 11.11 on PA-RISC
- Visualize b-, c-, and j-class Unix Workstations
Series 700 Workstations
- Visualize fx2, fx4, fx5, fx6, fx10 Graphics
SGI
- Prism, Fuel, Onyx2, Onyx, Octane2, Octane, O2, Indigo2, Indy
- IRIX 6.5
- All Graphics
Sun
- UltraSPARC Workstations
- Solaris 8
- Creator3D, Elite3D, and Expert3D Graphics Accelerators
*Up-to-date graphic accelerator driver software is essential for
proper operation of Gridgen.
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