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After connecting to the cluster with putty or ssh. You can either start from scratch or copy the abaqus parallel sample.
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Your parallel Abaqus jobfile should look like this.
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Your parallel Abaqus jobfile should look like this.
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Launch you parallel job with the qsub command.
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Here you can see part 1 of the abaqus job output and the directory listing of all output files.
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Here is part 2 of the Abaqus parallel job output

Abaqus in Parallel Batch Job

Copy the Sample Code

 $ cp -rv /share/apps/samples/abaqus-parallel ./

Or Create your own abaqus_parallel.job

Your job file should look similar to the following


#!/bin/bash
#PBS -N run_abaqus_demo
#PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=8
#PBS -l walltime=00:60:00
#PBS -V
#PBS -m abe
#PBS -M joeminer@mst.edu
#PBS -q @nic-cluster.mst.edu
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# change to working directory
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR

# get true node count
np=$(cat $PBS_NODEFILE | wc -l)

# generate abaqus node list
create_abaqus_host_list

# Set Analysis input files 
#(only the file name without file extension),
# e.g. for abaqus_demo.inp 
input=abaqus_demo

# -- start abaqus on np processors
abaqus job=$input analysis cpus=$np interactive

Create Abaqus input files

Put Abaqus data and input files in the directory with the job file. If you copied the sample the sample input and data files are already there.

Launch the Abaqus Parallel Job


$ qsub abaqus_parallel.job

View your results

The command line output of the abaqus parallel run will be in run_abaqus_demo.o######

Screen Shot Tutorial

You will see a screen shot slide show of this example to the right.  You can maually page through the example using the dots below the pictures.