Gridgen Ported to AMD Opteron

By DE Editors

Gridgen Version 15.09, CFD meshing software by Pointwise (Forth Worth, TX), is now available for Microsoft Windows and Linux workstations powered by the AMD Opteron processor.

“Gridgen has supported the Windows and Linux operating systems foreight and five years, respectively,” said John Steinbrenner, VicePresident of Research and Development.  “During that time, the AMDOpteron processor has become very popular in the computational fluiddynamics market. With the help of our new partners at AMD we are nowable to certify Gridgen’s performance on the Opteron processor both nowand in the future.”

Other new features released in Gridgen V15.09 include solid modeling, adeformation-based scheme for pyramid cell generation in hybrid meshes,a new native interface to the FrontFlow flow solver, upgraded nativeinterfaces to the FIELDVIEW CFD postprocessor and the Cobalt andSTAR-CD flow solvers, and a port to the Silicon Graphics Prism Deskside.

Pointwise’s Gridgen software generates structured, unstructured, andhybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers such as FLUENT, STAR-CD, andANSYS CFX as well as many neutral formats such as CGNS; runs on Windows(Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel and AMD), Mac, and Unix; and has ascripting language that can automate CFD meshing.  Moreinformation about Gridgen is available at pointwise.com.

Sources: Press materials received from the company. Additional information gleaned from the company’s website.