Applications/Ansys

Application Details

• Versions: V17.0, V17.2
• Module names: ansys/v170, ansys/v172
• License:

Job Submission Script

#!/bin/bash

#SBATCH -J ANSYS
#SBATCH -N 1      # number of cores (nodes) to use
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node 28
#SBATCH -o %N.%j.%a.out
#SBATCH -e %N.%j.%a.err
#SBATCH -p compute      # use "highmem" or "compute" node
# maximum execution time
#SBATCH --exclusive       # Instructs SLURM to not run any other job in the node(s) selected

module load ansys/v172
ansys172 -b -i /home/test/Input.lgw

Details:
Line 1 – Just a standard line that needs to be at the top of the file
Line 2 – The -J sets the name of the job, in this case to ANSYS. This doesn’t impact on the job and doesn’t have to be unique. It helps distinguish tasks when looking in squeue (LINK)
Line 3 – This requests you are allocated 1 compute node.
Line 4 – This requests 28 slots on the node. (the full compute node)
Line 5 and 6 – These set the output and error files. The log file will contain Fluent console output, the error file will contain information that may be useful if things don’t work as expected (at a cluster level)
Line 7 – This requests the job runs on one of the compute nodes on the compute queue.
Line 8 – this requests the job runs exclusively on a node i.e (no other jobs)
Line 9- Load Ansys Version 17.2
Line 10– This is the run command the -b instructs Ansys to run in batch mode the -i specifies the input file

Ansys Fluent

Usage Examples

Interactive

[username@login01 ~]$ interactive
salloc: Granted job allocation 296769
Job ID 296769 connecting to c170, please wait...
Last login: Wed Jan 25 09:10:51 2017 from 10.254.5.246
[username@c170 ~]$ module add ansys/v172

[username@c170 ~]$ fluent

Journal File

A journal file needs to be created to control the job when running

rcd "hw_RANS"
/solve/dual-time-iterate 2000 10
wcd "hw_LESHot"

Line 1 - Read case and data from hw_RANS Line 2 - Number of iterations Line 3 - Write case and date to hw_LESHOT

Job Submission Script

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -J ANSYS_FLUENT # sensible name for the job
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 28
#SBATCH -o %N.%j.%a.out
#SBATCH -e %N.%j.%a.err
#SBATCH -p compute
#SBATCH --exclusive
  
# load the relevant module files
module purge
module load intel/mpi/64/5.1.3.181
module load ansys/v172
 
export FLUENT_GUI=off
export I_MPI_ROOT=/trinity/clustervision/CentOS/7/apps/intel/impi/5.1.3.181
export I_MPI_DEBUG=5
export I_MPI_FABRICS=shm:tmi
export I_MPI_FALLBACK=no
 
if [ -z "$SLURM_NPROCS" ]; then
N=$(( $(echo $SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE | sed -r 's/([0-9]+)\(x([0-9]+)\)/\1 * \2/') ))
else
 		N=$SLURM_NPROCS
fi
echo $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST
echo $SLURM_NPROCS
echo -e "N: $N\n";
 
  # run fluent in batch on the allocated node(s)
srun hostname -s > hostfile
FLUENT_ARCH=lnamd64 export FLUENT_ARCH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/psm2-compat:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

fluent -ssh  3ddp -g -t$N -mpi=intel -pib.infinipath  -cnf=hostfile -i my_fluent_file

Details:
Line 1 – Just a standard line that needs to be at the top of the file
Line 2 – The -J sets the name of the job, in this case to ANSYS_FLUENT. This doesn’t impact on the job and doesn’t have to be unique. It helps distinguish tasks when looking in squeue (LINK)
Line 3 – This requests you are allocated 1 compute node.
Line 4 – This requests 28 slots on the node. (the full compute node)
Line 5 and 6 – These set the output and error files. The log file will contain Fluent console output, the error file will contain information that may be useful if things don’t work as expected (at a cluster level)
Line 7 – This requests the job runs on one of the compute nodes on the compute queue.
Line 8 – this requests the job runs exclusively on a node i.e (no other jobs)
Line 9 – Comment
Line 10 – Remove all currently running modules
Line 11 – Load Intel MPI module
Line 12- Load Ansys Version 17.2
Line 13 – Turns the Fluent GUI off
Line 14 – Tells fluent where Intel MPI is located
Line 15 – Intel MPI level of error messages
Line 16 – Sets the Omnipath interconnect message protocol
Line 17 – Tells Intel MPI not to fallback to Ethernet
Line 18 - 20 – Checks number of tasks and sets number of processes
Line 21 – Prints Node range to output file
Line 22 – 23 – Prints number of processes to output file
Line 24 – Comment
Line 25 – Produces a hostfile listing nodes to run on
Line 26 – Tells fluent the architecture of the CPU (in this case amd64)</br> Line 27 – Appends to the library path psm2 library file
Line 28 – This is the run command. Note -i specifies the name of the input journal file

Job Submission

[username@login01 ~]$ sbatch fluent.job
Submitted batch job 289535

Tuning Fluent tasks

Number of Nodes and Cores

The number of nodes and CPU cores Fluent can be run across can be increased, which may result in performance improvements. This is performed by altering the number of nodes (#SBATCH -N XX) in the submission script. In order to make use of the additional CPU cores allocated alter #SBATCH -n xx, the number of CPUS should be Number of nodes * 28.

MPI and Interconnect

Please use Fluent with Intel MPI and the Omnipath interconnect for best performance.