Interconnects for HFSS Distributed Memory Simulation

To obtain the best possible performance we recommend the use of a network interconnect that supports communication speeds greater than 1000MB/sec or higher. Some high performance interconnects plug into a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect), PCI-X (extended), or PCIe (PCI Express) slot on the system.

HFSS-IE 15 supports the following network interconnects:

Ethernet/GiGE is the default interconnect on all platforms. You can choose one of the alternate interconnects by setting the ANSOFT_MPI_INTERCONNECT environment variable to "myri" for Myrinet and "ib" for Infiniband.

Interconnect variants are supported on Linux. Set the ANSOFT_MPI_INTERCONNECT_VARIANT to the desired interconnect variant. For example, set "ANSOFT_MPI_INTERCONNECT_VARIANT=silverstorm" to use the silverstorm variant.