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Introduction
blueCFD®-Core is both a product and a service that provides of a high quality (cross-)compiled build version of OpenFOAM® for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 (32 and 64bit, depending on the blueCFD-Core release), with some additional tweaks, executables and scripts, in order to maintain usability under a Windows environment. It provides a near Linux experience through MSys. It also includes the official Paraview binaries, in 32 and 64bit versions. The vtkPOpenFOAMReader is the plug-in used in Paraview, for reading OpenFOAM simulation files, because it offers better support for large files and multi-platform. MPICH2, MS-MPI and Open-MPI are the possible MPI packages used by blueCFD for running OpenFOAM with a multi-core and multi-machine environment in Windows. Paraview uses it's own Open-MPI build for parallel processing, but it can also read multi-processor runs with a single core.
blueCFD ThirdParty is (was) a service package designed to integrate additional free and/or open source software packages provided online into your blueCFD-Core installation. The objectives are: to improve user experience with blueCFD-Core; to provide additional support to those free and open source efforts.
This page provides a complete list of all release notes made so far for blueCFD-Core and blueCFD ThirdParty.
(Wednesday, 14 December 2011) Written by Administrator
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Introduction
blueCFD ThirdParty is a service package designed to integrate additional free and/or open source software packages provided online into your blueCFD installation. The objectives are: to improve user experience with blueCFD; to provide additional support to those free and open source efforts.
(Wednesday, 14 December 2011) Written by Administrator
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Introduction
blueCFD is both a product and a service that provides of a high quality cross-compiled build version of OpenFOAM® for Windows XP, Vista and Seven (32 and 64bit), with some additional tweaks, executables and scripts, in order to maintain usability under a Windows environment. It provides a near Linux experience through MSys. It also includes the official Paraview 3.12.0, in 32 and 64bit versions. The vtkPOpenFOAMReader is the plug-in used in Paraview, for reading OpenFOAM simulation files, because it offers better support for large files and multi-platform. MPICH2, MS-MPI and Open-MPI are the possible MPI packages used by blueCFD for running OpenFOAM with a multi-core and multi-machine environment in Windows. Paraview uses it's own Open-MPI build for parallel processing, but it can also read multi-processor runs with a single core.
Other Third Party software is and will be integrated as part of the blueCFD service and will be further described in the respective installation package.
(Wednesday, 10 November 2010) Written by Administrator
blueCFD 1.7-2 is now available and is provided as a patch release to blueCFD 1.7-1. Please visit the product page for more information on how to acquire the blueCFD product/service.
blueCFD is a service package of a high quality cross-compiled build version of OpenFOAM(R) for Windows XP, Vista and Seven (32 and 64bit), with some additional tweaks, executables and scripts, in order to maintain usability under a Windows environment. It provides a near Linux experience through MSys. It also includes the official Paraview 3.8.0, in 32 and 64bit versions. The vtkPOpenFOAMReader is the plug-in used in Paraview, for reading OpenFOAM simulation files, because it offers better support for large files and multi-platform. MPICH2 is used for running OpenFOAM with a multi-core and multi-machine environment. Paraview uses MS-MPI for parallel processing, but it can also read multi-processor runs with a single core. Discretizer has been added to the blueCFD package, to provide a GUI meshing utility and can also work as a GUI for using OpenFOAM.
The motorBike case is part of the tutorials that come with OpenFOAM 1.6 and above. The version of the case used for these run times is from the OpenFOAM 1.6.x git version. These timing results are to be compared with the previous timings made here.
blueCFD 1.7-1 is now available. Please visit the product page for more information on how to acquire this product/service.
blueCFD is a service package of a high quality cross-compiled build version of OpenFOAM(R) for Windows XP, Vista and Seven (32 and 64bit), with some additional tweaks, executables and scripts, in order to maintain usability under a Windows environment. It provides a near Linux experience through MSys. It also includes the official Paraview 3.8.0, in 32 and 64bit versions. The vtkPOpenFOAMReader is the plug-in used in Paraview, for reading OpenFOAM simulation files, because it offers better support for large files and multi-platform. MPICH2 is used for running OpenFOAM with a multi-core and multi-machine environment. Paraview uses MS-MPI for parallel processing, but it can also read multi-processor runs with a single core. Discretizer has been added to the blueCFD package, to provide a GUI meshing utility and can also work as a GUI for using OpenFOAM.
This page reflects the tutorials and applications tested by blueCAPE and from reports made by users of blueCFD 1.6 and 1.7. For blueCFD 2.0 and above, see the dedicated page at blueCFD-SingleCore.
Due to the complex nature of the tables we are using, we are now providing the list in PDF format only, available here.
Update on the 27th of December 2011: The list of working tutorials has been updated to properly reflect our findings on blueCFD 1.7. There are at least 3 tutorial cases that did not run as expected.
Warning: the tutorials deemed OK there might not have been fully tested nor compared with the results given by the Linux versions.
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blueCFD 1.6-2 is now available. Please visit the product page for more information on how to acquire this product/service.
blueCFD is a service package of a high quality cross-compiled build version of OpenFOAM(R) for Windows XP and Vista (32 and 64bit), with some additional tweaks, executables and scripts, in order to maintain usability under a Windows environment. It also provides a near Linux experience through MSys. It also includes Paraview compiled natively on Windows, also in 32 and 64bit versions. The vtkPOpenFOAMReader is the plug-in used in Paraview, for reading OpenFOAM simulation files, because it offers better support for large files and multi-platform. MPICH2 is used for running OpenFOAM and Paraview with a multi-core and multi-machine environment.
(Tuesday, 10 November 2009) Written by Administrator
Introduction
The motorBike case is part of the tutorials that come with OpenFOAM 1.6. This particular version of the case uses the bug fixes posted in the OpenFOAM 1.6.x git version. These are the timing results of using the original version of OpenFOAM and the cross-compiled version.
blueCFD 1.6-1 is now available. Please visit the product page for more information on how to acquire this product/service.
blueCFD is a service package of a high quality cross-compiled build version of OpenFOAM(R) for Windows XP and Vista (32 and 64bit), with some additional tweaks, executables and scripts, in order to maintain usability under a Windows environment. It also provides a near Linux experience through MSys. It also includes Paraview compiled natively on Windows, also in 32 and 64bit versions. The vtkPOpenFOAMReader is the plug-in used in Paraview, for reading OpenFOAM simulation files, because it offers better support for large files and multi-platform. MPICH2 is used for running OpenFOAM and Paraview with a multi-core and multi-machine environment.
