Solver is aided by AVX512 support, thus Intel CPUs based on Skylake-SP and Skylake-X or newer are recommended.While you should be able run Ansys on a Windows Virtual Machine inside Mac OS with a program like Parellels, this is NOT supported and your mileage may vary in regards to compatibility and performance will be hindered. Mac OS is not supported and Ansys cannot be installed on this OS.We strongly recommend upgrading to Windows 10 for compatibility, performance and security reasons. Windows 7 ( unsupported by Microsoft) & Windows 8 ( mainstream support has ended) may run Ansys, however, they are officially unsupported and we have experienced software errors while running on these OS's.While versions supported on Windows 10 will likely work on Windows 11, we still recommend using Windows 10 for the time being, if you need to use versions prior than 2022 R2. However, we have not widely deployed or tested prior versions of Ansys on Windows 11 at this time.

As of Ansys version 2022 R2 and after, Windows 11 is supported.That said, OS support does vary by product, particularly Ansys's more specialized products and Ansys does also provide broad support for Linux as well. In general, Windows 10 (Pro, Enterprise or Education) is the most common supported operating system used by SimuTech engineers and our customers to run Ansys and what we recommend.Please see the document called Platform Support by Application / Product on Ansys's Platform Support page for a full list of supported OS's for current and previous versions of Ansys.

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