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Computational Structural/Solid Mechanics

As part of the Advanced Applications Support Group of NCSA, CSM mission is to:

  • Provide technical support to NCSA users of third party structural/solid mechanics analysis codes
  • Provide engineering consulting services to NCSA Private Sector Partners
  • Disseminate user related information and technologies
  • Facilitate training in the areas of computational mechanics and high performance computing
  • Conduct applied research on new and unique finite element solver technologies that are of interest to researchers in engineering mechanics

NCSA supports the following CSM packages on our HPC machines for academic users only . If you are interested in packages that are not listed below, please consult the NCSA Software Database and TeraGrid Software Database to see if it is listed on other sites.

Commercial use of software is governed by the NCSA Private Sector Program.

NameIA-64 Linux Cluster
(Mercury)
Intel 64 Linux Cluster
(Abe)
SGI Altix
(Cobalt)
Abaqus  6.7-1 6.6-EF1, 6.7-1
Ansys  11 11.0
LS-DYNA   MPP 971
MSC.Marc   2007r1
MSC.Mentat   2007r1
MSC/Nastran   mdnastran 2006
MSC/Patran   2007

Also available CSM FAQs

If you encounter issues with the installed software or are unable to find the requisite software elsewhere, please feel free to contact us.