Examples of recommended CPUs for HPC applications: i9-9920X or Xeon Gold 6136 (12 cores), Xeon Gold 6140 (18 cores * 2 = 36 cores).Check Intel ARK Database for AVX512 Support (but not Xeon Phi series). 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.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.
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.
