Ansys Lumerical Virtual Desktop

Ansys Lumerical is supported on Windows and Linux virtual desktops.

Follow the instructions in Creating a Virtual Desktop in the Administration Guide.

When creating a virtual desktop, use the following guidelines:

• Operating system: Windows or Linux

  If creating a Linux virtual desktop using the Rocky Linux by CIQ image, see What You Should Know About the Rocky Linux OS Image by CIQ in the Administration Guide.

• Applications: Ansys Lumerical

  If installing Ansys Lumerical for Linux, GNOME Desktop and XRDP for GNOME are automatically added as well.

  Note: Ansys recommends that you create the virtual desktop without any applications, and then add the application after the virtual desktop has been created. See Adding Applications to a Virtual Desktop in the User's Guide. Sometimes, Windows updates are triggered on newly created virtual machines, causing application installation to fail.

• GPU workflows Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5 Standard_NC96ads_A100_v4 Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4	Supports Unified Memory
  HPC Compute Nodes HBv4/HBv3/HBv2/HB series (for example, Standard_HB120rs_v4) HC series (for example, Standard_HC44rs)

When the resource is in the Running state and the Connect button is displayed at the bottom of the tile, you can connect to the virtual desktop. See Launching a Virtual Desktop Session in the User's Guide.