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Getting Started

Introduction
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- Modeling Your First Process
Installation
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- System Requirements
- Hardware Guide
- Platform Diagnostics
- Windows
- Linux (Single Node)
- Linux (Multi Node)
- AWS
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- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Containers
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  - Singularity
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- Python Install
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- Remote Visualization (NICE DCV)
- Windows Python Setup Guide
- Troubleshooting M-Star Pre/Post start up
Licensing
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Tutorials
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How-To Guides
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Knowledge Base
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- Warnings and Errors
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  - “No Fluid” Related Errors
- M-Star Pre or Post does not start up on AWS on a Windows instance
- CUDA-aware MPI
- NVRTC compilation error (Linux)
- Understanding GPU peer access
- Solver start up delay

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Model Tree
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- Simulation Parameters
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- Main Lattice
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Child Geometry
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- Non-Parametric Geometry Catalog
Fluid
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Create
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- Create: Fundamentals
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    - Boundary Condition Types
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  - Scalar Field
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    - Static Inlet Outlet Boundary Conditions
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- Create: Variables
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Output
Check
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Solve
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UDFs and Tables
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M-Star Solve

Running the Solver
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Workflow and Integration
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M-Star Post

Post Processing
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- Output Aggregator
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Scaling Performance

M-Star API

Python Pre API
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- Examples
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- Installation
- Module functions
- Model
- Components
- Properties
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- Output
- Foundation Classes
- Initial State

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Validation / Literature
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- Flow in the Trailing Vortex of an Impeller
Theory
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Architecture Technical Overview
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Webinars
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