Submitting ANSYS Jobs
The ANSYS software licenses are managed by College of Engineering. To arrange access to ANSYS on HCC resources,
contact Paul Pokorny (paul.pokorny@unl.edu).
The number of ANSYS tasks is restricted by its license.
For research computations, users need to add the line below to their job submission file.
#SBATCH --licenses=ansys_research
For teaching purposes, users need to add
#SBATCH --licenses=ansys_teaching
Running ANSYS scripts in batch
ANSYS.submit
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --time=00:30:00
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1024
#SBATCH --job-name=TestJob
#SBATCH --licenses=ansys_research
#SBATCH --error=job.%J.err
#SBATCH --output=job.%J.out
module load ansys/19.2
YOUR_ANSYS_COMMAND
Details of SLURM job submission can be found at
SUBMITTING JOBS.
Running ANSYS interactively
- To use graphical user interface, users need to first setup X11 forwarding. HOW TO SETUP X11 FORWARDING
- Start an interactie job using srun. NOTE: users need to add --licenses=ansys_research or --licenses=ansys_teaching to the srun command. SUBMITTING AN INTERACTIVE JOB
- After the interactive job starts, execute “module load ansys/19.2”, then run the ANSYS command, e.g. fluent, from command line. The GUI will show up if steps 1-2 are configured correctly.