HFSS15: Installation Requirements for Distributed Memory Solutions with HFSS-IE

You must install HFSS 14 on all the machines you intend to use during the HFSS-IE distributed memory solution process. The installation locations for HFSS must be identical and the machines must be uniform: all 64 bit or all 32 bit; all Windows or all Linux. The machines must all use the same interconnect.

In addition, on Windows, you must install one of the supported versions of MPI from either Platform Computing (default) or Intel. Be sure to install the same version of MPI on all machines in your cluster.

You will need to set the password you want to use for your MPI runs on all the machines in the cluster. You can either use the batch command provided by ANSYS to set your password or refer to the MPI vendor's documentation.