Running the Ansys Fluent GPU Solver on Arm compute nodes is supported as a beta feature, as long as you have set up Ansys Fluent as described in the section that follows. For details about Arm compute nodes, see Running Ansys Fluent on Arm Compute Nodes in the Fluent User's Guide.
Note: The following are not supported with this combination:
SUNDIALS solvers for reacting flows
exporting solution data in the EnSight DVS format
To set up Ansys Fluent for Arm with the intention of using the Ansys Fluent GPU Solver, you must install packages for both Ansys Fluent and a Client, in the correct order, as described in the following steps:
Request the Ansys Fluent for Arm and Client packages from Ansys support and download them. The Ansys Fluent package provides an aarch64 installation for Arm.
Install the Ansys Fluent for Arm and Client packages:
Extract the package contents using the following commands:
tar xf Fluent_install-lnarm64-25.2.0-<BID>.tar tar xf Client_install-lnarm64-25.2.0-<BID>.tar
where
<BID>is the build ID.Run the installers using the following commands in order, and follow the prompts where the same path must be used for all installers:
sh Fluent_install-lnarm64-25.2.0.sh sh Client_install-lnarm64-25.2.0.sh
Note: It is recommended that you use one of the following on Arm:
Rocky Linux 8.9*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.8* / 9.3*
(*) Prerequisites: libICE, libnsl2, libSM, pcre2-utf16.
Set up the environment.