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Usage and Licensing at HLRN

The use of Ansys is restricted to members of the ansys user group. You can apply to become a group member at support[at]hlrn.de
Please note the license conditions: Our academic licenses are restricted to students, PhD students, teachers and trainers of public institutions. They cannot be used in projects that are financed by industrial partners.

This allows for the batch system to start the job The flag "#SBATCH -L ansys" ensures that the scheduler starts jobs only, when the appropriate number of licenses is are available.
You can check the availability yourself: scontrol show lic

• aa

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• r is a "ANSYS Academic Research License" with 16 inclusive tasks. Research jobs with more than 16 tasks cost additional "aa_r_hpc" licenses.

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• aa_t_a is a "ANSYS Academic Teaching License" with a maximum of 16 tasks. These may be used only for student projects, student instruction and student demonstrations. Eligible users are allowed to activate these, by adding the flag
  

  Codeblock
  title Activation of the aa_t_a license
  -lpf $ANSYSLIC_DIR/prodord/license.preferences_for_students_and_teaching.xml

  to the Ansys executable.

Example Jobscripts

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -t 00:10:00
#SBATCH --nodes=2
#SBATCH --tasks-per-node=40
#SBATCH -L ansys
#SBATCH -p medium40:test
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL
#SBATCH --job-name=casting

module load ansys/2019r2

ansys2019r2 -np $SLURM_NTASKS -b -dis -i casting.dat -o casting.out.$SLURM_JOB_ID

echo "############### ANSYS finished ################"

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