Abaqus

Abaqus provides solutions for linear, non-linear, explicit, and multi-body dynamics problems to deliver a unified finite element analysis environment.

External Links:
Abaqus website


Loading Abaqus

There are various versions of Abaqus installed on Henry2. To see the various versions available, type module avail. The current version is 2018. To set the Abaqus environment, load the default module

module load abaqus 

Running Abaqus

Do not use Abaqus on a login node.

Abaqus should be run from the /share directory. The standard output, standard error, and by default all generated data from the job will be placed in the directory where the bsub command was issued. Running Abaqus from the /home directory can quickly fill a users' quota.

Batch Abaqus

Here is an example batch script. For more information on submitting batch scripts, see the documentation on running jobs.

To run Abaqus in batch mode using an Abaqus input file called Deform.inp, create a text file called submit.csh containing:

#!/bin/tcsh
#BSUB -W 20
#BSUB -n 2
#BSUB -R span[hosts=1]
#BSUB -o out.%J
#BSUB -e err.%J
module load abaqus 
abaqus job=Deform cpus=2 interactive

The job can be submitted as

bsub < submit.csh 

The argument interactive must be used or LSF will exit and the job will continue to run. LSF will not know the job is still running.

The script submit.csh is equivalent to the interactive bsub command above; it requests 2 cores for 20 minutes. The span argument requires the 2 cores to be on the same node. Check the documentation on running jobs to customize the batch script.

Interactive Abaqus

VCL

If it is necessary to run Abaqus in GUI mode, the HPC-VCL should be used. Versions of Abaqus that are older than the current default may not work on the current VCL image. To run on the VCL, log in to an HPC-VCL node, open a terminal, cd /share/group_name/user_name and type:

module load abaqus
abaqus cae -mesa

Last modified: March 23 2022 13:19:45.