Relating CPU and OS architectures to licence type
Relating CPU and OS architectures to licence type
| CPU (hardware) | OS |
Licence Type |
GUI |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel /AMD (32-bit x86) |
Windows (2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003, 2008, 2008
R2) |
Silver |
YES |
|
| Linux |
Silver |
YES |
GLIBC 2.3 or later |
|
| Intel / AMD (64-bit x86_64) |
Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server
2008 R2) |
Gold |
YES |
|
| Linux (including Intel Cluster Ready
certified systems) |
Gold |
YES |
GLIBC 2.3 or later | |
| IBM PowerPC |
AIX |
Platinum |
NO |
|
| Intel (64-bit Itanium) |
HP-UX |
Platinum |
NO |
|
| Windows |
Platinum | YES |
GUI 32-bit emulation |
|
| Linux (including SGI Altix) |
Platinum | YES |
GUI 32-bit emulation | |
| HP PA-2.0 |
64-bit HP-UX 11.00 |
Platinum | NO |
|
| SUN Ultrasparc II (32-bit) |
Solaris, SunOS |
Platinum | NO | |
| SUN Ultrasparc III |
Solaris, SunOS |
Platinum | NO |
The above table is intended to highlight the range of CPU and operating system architectures that FEKO works with and how licencing differs for different architectures. The nature of electromagnetic simulation is that computer resource requirements grow rapidly as problem size and complexity grows. In such scenarios that the efficient parallel processing capabilities of FEKO becomes critically important. The above mentioned architectures can be networked to form cluster computers and can be integrated into large-scale server computers for improved simulation performance.
Examples of such systems include:
- Intel Cluster Ready systems provided by Intel certified installers.
- SGI Altix systems.
- Generic Beowulf clusters (also multi-core nodes)
Various interconnecting technologies are supported by FEKO, including:
- NumaFlex for SGI Altix systems
- Infiniband through DAPL
- GigaBit Ethernet
- Myrinet
