MSC.

Patran
2005 R2
Support of ABAQUS ODB Results
on HPIPF
January, 2004

ODB Support on HPIPF

ABAQUS has gradually been

upgraded to 64-bit
Causing their libraries to be binary
incompatible with the 32-bit
Patran application

ABAQUS never did supply 32-bit

libraries on HP Itanium
Patran therefore has not been able
to support access to the ODB file
on HPIPF
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In Patran 2005 R2, ABAQUS DRA

(Direct Results Access) has been rearchitected to use a client-server

model (on HPIPF only for now)
The server, which accesses the
ABAQUS results, may be built
completely as a 64-bit application
Binary compatible with the ABAQUS
libraries

The client remains 32-bit and links

directly with Patran

It communicates with the server via RPCs
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Performance
While one might expect a

significant drop in performance in

a client-server environment, we
encountered little loss of
response when accessing
Abaqus ODB results on HPIPF,
compared other platforms that
utilize a more direct, dynamic link
library, mechanism.
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User Interface
No User Interface changes are
required

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