Revision as of 11:17, 24 May 2019

Application Details

• Description: COMSOL Multiphysics® is a general-purpose software platform, based on advanced numerical methods, for modeling and simulating physics-based problems.
• Versions: 5.2, 5.3, 5.3a, 5.4
• Module names: comsol/52a comsol/53 comsol/53a comsol/54
• License: Restricted commercial license, limited to Materials Engineering group. Please email viper@hull.ac.uk for information.

Usage Examples

Executables

Interactive

The GUI version of COMSOL can be started in an interactive session by running comsol:

[username@c100 ~]$ module add test-modules comsol/52a
[username@c100 ~]$ comsol

Batch Submission

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -J ComsolTest # Job name, you can change it to whatever you want
#SBATCH -N 1                # Number of nodes to run across
#SBATCH -n 28               # Number of cores to run across
#SBATCH -o %N-%j.log        # Standard output will be written here
#SBATCH -e %N-%j.err        # Standard error will be written here
#SBATCH -p compute          # Slurm partition, where you want the job to be queued
#SBATCH --exclusive

module add test-modules comsol/52a

comsol batch -np 28 -inputfile "Input file.mph" -tmpdir /local/username/comsol -outputfile output-file.mph -batchlog comsolout.log

Because COMSOL creates large temporary files, performance can be improved by using the -tmpdir setting and using local storage by specifying a directory /local/username/comsol.

This submission script can be found at /path/to/sample/script

[username@login01 ~]$ sbatch COMSOL.job
Submitted batch job 289555

Further Information

• COMSOL Multiphysics website