Ansys nCode Virtual Desktop

Ansys nCode is supported on Windows virtual desktops that have Ansys Mechanical installed.

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

When creating a virtual desktop with Ansys nCode, use the following guidelines:

• Operating system: Windows

• Applications: Install the Ansys Mechanical Enterprise package first. Once Ansys Mechanical Enterprise has been installed, add Ansys nCode to the virtual desktop (see Adding Applications to a Virtual Machine in the User's Guide).

  Note: Ansys recommends that you create the virtual desktop without any applications, and then add the applications after the virtual desktop has been created (in the order specified above). Sometimes, Windows updates are triggered on newly created virtual machines, causing application installation to fail.

• Hardware:

  • When hardware-accelerated graphics are not needed, Ansys recommends c6i, m6i, or r6i instance types. If these types are not available in your region, use c5, r5, or m5.

  • When hardware-accelerated graphics are needed, Ansys recommends g4dn instance types. In the GPU driver options, choose GPU display/compute (GRID drivers).

    

    For information about GPU driver options, see NVIDIA GPU Driver Support.

  • c to m to r provide increased memory (RAM).

  • For nCode, 12-16 physical cores and 8 GB of memory are recommended.

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.