Ansys
The Ansys engineering simulation tools are installed on Niagara.
Getting a license
Licenses are provided by CMC Microsystems. Canadian students and faculty can register at this page.
Once you have an account, you have to contact CMC and tell them you want to use the Ansys tools on SciNet, and give them your SciNet username.
Ansys 19.0
module load /scinet/niagara/software/commercial/modules module load ansys/19.0
Programs available:
- fluent
- ansysedt
- mapdl
- ...
Running Fluent
Example submission script for a job running on 4 nodes, with max walltime of 24 hours:
#!/bin/bash #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=8,walltime=24:00:00 module load ANSYS/18.1 extras # DIRECTORY TO RUN - $PBS_O_WORKDIR is directory job was submitted from cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR INPUTFILE=input.jou fluent 2ddp -t "$PBS_NP" -cnf="$PBS_NODEFILE" -mpi=intel -pib -pcheck -g -i "$INPUTFILE"