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

  1. To use graphical user interface, users need to first setup X11 forwarding. HOW TO SETUP X11 FORWARDING
  2. 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
  3. 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.