A standard Ansys Mechanical APDL installation is all that is required on the server machine to start a Mechanical APDL as a Server session that can listen to commands from clients. For more information, see Mechanical APDL as a Server Session Management.

You can connect from a client machine using applications built with the Mechanical APDL as a Server Software Development Kit (SDK) in any CORBA-compliant programming language. These client applications will have varying installation procedures and system requirements depending on how they are built and the amount of system resources required to execute them.