Applications/Star-ccm+

Application Details

• Description: Produced by Siemens CD-adapco (Computational Dynamics-Analysis & Design Application Company Ltd), star-ccm+ is used for computer-aided engineering, in particular, computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
• Versions : 15.02.009 ( + R8) and starccm+/18.04.009.R8

• Module names : starccm+/15.02.009 (and starccm+/15.02.009.R8) and starccm+/18.04.009.R8
• License: University of Hull Engineering department, restricted by POD license.

Important information

• Important: where possible it is recommended to use versions 18.04.009 and 15.02.009, versions 11/12 is now retired and 13/14 will be soon.
• The SIM data processed should be the same version of the star-ccm+ application, there is a strong sensitivity in this program.
• Multiple node processing will need the addition of the file in $HOME/.ssh/config (with StrictHostKeyChecking no)

Usage Examples

Batch Submission

#!/bin/bash

#SBATCH -J STAR_TEST
#SBATCH --nodes=5
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=28

#SBATCH -D /home/<username>/TESTCASE/
#SBATCH -o DB.%N.%j.%a.out
#SBATCH -e DB.%N.%j.%a.err
#SBATCH -p compute
#SBATCH --exclusive
#SBATCH --mail-user= your email address here

echo $SLURM_NTASKS
echo $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST
echo $SLURM_HOSTS

module purge
module load starccm+/18.04.009.R8
module load openmpi/4.0.5/gcc-7.3.0

export I_MPI_DEBUG=5
export I_MPI_FABRICS=shm:tmi
export I_MPI_FALLBACK=no

srun hostname -s | sort | uniq -c | awk '{ print $2":"$1 }' > hosts

starccm+ -podkey <license_key> -licpath <license-address> -mpi platform -power -np $SLURM_NTASKS -machinefile hosts Fluid_Film_On_An_Incline_we_005_SF05_TESTING.sim -batch mesh,run

• insert your license_key <license_key>.
• insert the license_path (1999@flex.cd-adapco.com) at <license_path>.
• <username> your login ID.

[username@login01 ~]$ sbatch starccm.job
Submitted batch job 289522

Interactive

Although the recommended method is a batch session it is also possible to run this as an interactive session. While logged into a compute node (c143):

[username@login01]$ interactive
salloc: Granted job allocation 1114537
Job ID 614537 connecting to c143, please wait...
Last login: Wed Nov 19 09:40:23 2018 from 10.254.5.246

[username@c143 ~]$ module add starccm+/15.02.009
[username@c143 ~]$ module add openmpi/3.0.0/gcc-7.3.0
[username@c143 ~]$ hostname -s | sort | uniq -c | awk '{ print $2":"$1 }' > hostfile
[username@c143 ~]$ starccm+ -fabricverbose -power -podkey <pod-licence code here> -np 12 -machinefile hostfile -licpath 1999[at]flex.cd-adapco.com testmesh.sim  -batch runsim.java 

• Note : [at] = @

Star-ccm server

Star-ccm+ can be used as a server within an interactive session on Viper. This would be very useful for graphics from big simulations.

• Check SSH keys are been generated correctly for this version of SSH.

Known Issues

• After version 13; no noted MPI issues.

Further information

• https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/support/

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