Multi-Physics MpCCI

Fraunhofer-Institut für Algorithmen und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen SCAI

News and Release Information

MpCCI 4.1.1-2 (June 15, 2011)

  1. Timeout connection between an MpCCI client and server has been increased:
    1. New client libraries are available
    2. All supported code adapters include the fix
  2. MSC.Marc 2007r1 windows 32 bit platform support has been dropped

MpCCI 4.1.1-1 (May 20, 2011)

  1. Bug fixes in MpCCI 
  2. New code adapters for FINE/Hexa 2.11-0 and FINE/Turbo 8.9-1
  3. Additional code adapters for STAR-CD 4.14 and Star-CCM+ 6.02

MpCCI 4.1.0-2 (April 20, 2011)

  1. Improvement in MpCCI GUI (memory usage)
  2. Issues fixed in code adapters for Abaqus, ANSYS, Flowmaster and STAR-CCM+

MpCCI 4.1.0-1 (March 10, 2011)

  1. License :
    • FlexNet-Publisher-license-server updated to version 11.6.
    • The user needs to upgrade the MpCCI license file and the license server. License daemon for MpCCI 4.0 and 4.1 can run in parallel on the same host.
  2. New Platforms:
    • Windows 7 32/64 bit
    • MS Windows HPC Batch System
    • Mac OS X (Darwin 10) 64
  3. Cancelled Platforms:
    • OSF Alpha osf alpha platform
    • Linux Itanium linux ia64
  4. Coupling Server:
    • Orphaned nodes can be handled by specific diffusion/extrapolation methods.
    • Monitor can connect and disconnect to a running job.
    • EnSight Gold supported as export format.
    • CCVX file support for a better simulation restart.
  5. Code Adapter API:
    • Minor changes in the exchanged data structures
  6. Graphical User Frontend:
    • Improved support for 0-dim point elements
    • Support for cross-dimension coupling
  7. Code Adapter:
    • Abaqus 6.10 updates
    • Ansys 13
    • Fluent 13
    • Flowmaster 7.7
    • ICEPAK 13
    • MD Nastran 2010.1.3
    • MSC.Marc 2010
    • OpenFOAM 1.5 - 1.7 on Linux and Windows
    • RadTherm 10
    • STAR-CCM+ 5.06.010, improved remeshing support
    • STAR-CD 4.12

MpCCI 4.0.1-4 (September 29, 2010)

  1. Improvement in MpCCI environment (Perl installation, processor detection)
  2. ANSYS code adapter: added support for degenerated SURF152 and SURF154 elements
  3. FLUENT code adapter: Fix force computation on a coupled wall having a shadow wall

MpCCI 4.0.1-3 (July 22, 2010)

  1. Fix in MpCCI coupling server (vista32/64)
  2. Improvement in MpCCI environment
  3. Improvements for Code adapter (ANSYS, MD Nastran, STAR-CCM+)

MpCCI 4.0.1-2 (June 21, 2010)

  1. FLUENT 12.1.4 for Linux
  2. MD NASTRAN 2010 (cl72204)
  3. STAR-CCM+ windows 64bit bug fix

MpCCI 4.0.1-1 (May 17, 2010)

  1. Abaqus 6.10 
  2. ANSYS 12.1 
  3. FLUENT 12.1 
  4. MD NASTRAN 2010
  5. RadTherm 9.3 
  6. STAR-CCM+ 4.04.001, 4.06.011, 5.02.009, 5.02.010
  7. STAR-CD 4.12.004, 4.12.016

MpCCI 4.0.0 (September 21, 2009)

September 21, 2009: MpCCI 4.0 Release available. A completely redesigned coupling server system provides drastical performance improvements. Further codes supported are: MD Nastran and Flowmaster