Software

Core

AniForm Core is a parallelised and implicit finite element solver with automatic step sizing, enabling accurate and fast 3D simulations with anisotropic materials, such as fibre reinforced composites, woven fabrics and unidirectional pre-pregs. AniForm PrePost Forming enables you to set up a simulation and to view the simulation results.

Key features

Parallel multi-core implicit finite element solver
Automatic step sizing
Runs on Windows and Linux
Supports single-node shared-memory systems
Supports multi-node distributed-memory HPC clusters
Integrates with SLURM and PBS workload managers
Supports customized cluster scripts

Enterprise HPC cluster support

AniForm Core supports distributed computing on Linux HPC clusters. AniForm’s integrated job scheduling and queue management system provides a streamlined workflow from AniForm PrePost.
Run simulations across multiple compute nodes
Submit, monitor, and abort jobs directly from AniForm PrePost
Synchronize intermediate results automatically
Integrate with SLURM or PBS
Use customized job-submission scripts

Supported operating systems

Windows

Windows 10, version 1809 (October 2018 update) or higher
Windows Server 2019 LTSC (version 1809) or higher
Might run on older 64-bit platforms (not on 32-bit), not tested

Linux

Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
Debian 11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 4