Hopefully even with some type of emulation available people would still
lobby the company for a mac native version. If people are talking about
spending big dollars on xserve clusters and buying big dollar licenses of
ANSYS along with it, Im sure the marketing people at the company would love
to get that data.
I know we use ANSYS here, but we don't have a lot of pull being in the "no
money land" of academia.
With that said, if you get something like that working Im sure Id be
interested in hearing about it. As an undergrad in the late 90s in
Aerospace Engineering I was forced to run ANSYS in Virtual PC :)
Tony
On 9/30/04 10:41 AM, "Markus Hitter" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am 30.09.2004 um 16:43 schrieb Christopher Wright:
>
>> I hear rumors from time to time about ports to Mac OSX from ANSYS.
>
> There might be another option.
>
> As ANSYS for AIX/PPC already exists, it could run inside a software
> emulation package. As IBM's RS/6000, IBM's IntelliStations and Macs
> share the CPU instruction set, this type of emulation can be quite
> fast. Instead of your VirtualPC/x86 experiences, think about a 10 %
> performance drop compared to a equal IBM machine, only. Likely to be
> faster than 68k emulation in Classic.
>
> There are two principal types of emulation: either emulate the whole
> hardware like "qemu" does it. Or, code a loader for AIX binaries and
> put some shim libs between OS X and the application. I'm currently
> investigating the latter version.
>
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