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:

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• 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

Detailed Hardware Requirements

All | Windows | Linux | Mac | HP | SGI | Sun |

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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.):

For other Linux distributions, we recommend using rpmfind.net to determine which packages to install.

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
• 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.