Ansys Rocky Virtual Desktop

Ansys Rocky is supported on Windows virtual desktops.

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

When creating the virtual desktop, use the following guidelines:

• Operating system: Windows

• Applications: Ansys Rocky

  Specify the hostname or IP address of the license server as well as the Flexnet port number and Interconnect port number (if they are different than the default port numbers).

  

  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 Machine in the User's Guide. Sometimes, Windows updates are triggered on newly created virtual machines, causing application installation to fail.

• Hardware: A g4dn or g5 instance type is recommended. CPU and single-GPU computation is well supported. Support for multi-GPU computation in Ansys Gateway powered by AWS is limited at this time.

  In the GPU driver options, GRID drivers are recommended for accelerated graphics. For GPU compute, both GRID and Tesla drivers are supported.

  

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

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