General Information

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The ANSYS software package is developed and distributed by ANSYS, Inc..

Details of the HLRN Installation of ANSYS

The ANSYS versions currently installed are

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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.

The flag "#SBATCH -L ansys" ensures that the scheduler starts jobs only, when licenses are available.
You can check the availability yourself: scontrol show lic

• aa_r is a "ANSYS Academic Research License" with 4 inclusive tasks. Research jobs with more than 4 tasks cost additional "aa_r_hpc" licenses.

• aa_t_a is a "ANSYS Academic Teaching License" with a maximum of 4 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, such as "cfx5solve". The path $ANSYSLIC_DIR is provided after loading any Ansys module. Alternatively, eligible users are allowed to redefine their command "cfx5solve" with

  Codeblock
  title Redefining cfx5solve for students
  source $ANSYSLIC_DIR/cfx5solve_redef_with_student_lic

  after loading the Ansys module inside the job script. This will append the flag "-lpf ..." to "cfx5solve" automatically if less than 17 task are requested.

Example Jobscripts

Info
To obtain and checkout a product license please read Ansys Suite first.

Documentation and Tutorials

Example Jobscripts

Example input files e.g. StaticMixer.def can be found at $CFXROOT/examples (after loading the Ansys module).

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -t 00:10:00
#SBATCH --nodes=2
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=4096
#SBATCH -L ansys
#SBATCH -p medium40standard96:test
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL
#SBATCH --job-name=StaticMixer

module load ansys/2023r2
# also supported by & successfully tested with:
# ml ansys/2023r1
# ml ansys/2022r2
 
source $ANSYSLIC_DIR/cfx5solve_redef_with_student_lic
 
## create list of hosts in calculation
srun hostname -s > hostlist.$SLURM_JOB_ID
 
## format the host list for cfx
cfxhostlist=`tr '\n' ',' < hostlist.$SLURM_JOB_ID`
 
echo $cfxhostlist
 
# start the solver
cfx5solve -def StaticMixer.def -start-method "Intel MPI Distributed Parallel" \
-double -affinity "explicit" -par-dist "$cfxhostlist"

echo '#################### CFX finished ############'
sleep 2
rm hostlist.$SLURM_JOB_ID

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#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --time=01:00:00
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=16	
#SBATCH --licenses=ansys:16  #
match number to nodes*ntasks-per-node
#SBATCH --partition=standard96:test
#SBATCH --job-name=testjob

hostlist_per_cfx5solve=$SLURM_JOB_NODELIST"*8"
echo "hostlist_per_cfx5solve "$hostlist_per_cfx5solve

module load ansys/2020r2
# cfx5solve -help

# start the solver
cfx5solve -def StaticMixerA.def -start-method "Intel MPI Distributed Parallel" \
        -double -par-dist "$hostlist_per_cfx5solve" -name $SLURM_JOB_NAME.$SLURM_JOB_ID.a &

echo "first cfx5solve is running in background"

cfx5solve -def StaticMixerB.def -start-method "Intel MPI Distributed Parallel" \
        -double -affinity "explicit" -par-dist "$hostlist_per_cfx5solve" -name $SLURM_JOB_NAME.$SLURM_JOB_ID.b 

# wait for all children processes (background jobs) to finish
wait

echo '#################### CFX finished ############'

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