Applications/FDS-SMV

Application Details

• Description : Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a large-eddy simulation (LES) code for low-speed flows, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. Smokeview (SMV) is a visualization program used to display the output of FDS and CFAST simulations.
• Versions : 6.6.0 and 6.5.3 (to be retired)
• Module names : fds/6.6.0
• License: FDS and Smokeview are free and open-source software tools provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States Department of Commerce. Pursuant to Title 17, Section 105 of the United States Code, this software is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

Usage Examples

Batch Submission

#!/bin/bash

#SBATCH -J stecker_Comparison
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1

#SBATCH -D /home/username/FDS/
#SBATCH -o DB.%N.%j.%a.out
#SBATCH -e DB.%N.%j.%a.err
#SBATCH -p compute
#SBATCH --exclusive

echo $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST

module purge
module load fds/6.6.0
module load intel/mpi/64/5.1.3.181

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

ulimit -s unlimited
ulimit -v unlimited

mpirun -n 1 fds FDS_Steckler.fds

[username@login01 ~]$ sbatch fds.job
Submitted batch job 232122

Further information

• https://pages.nist.gov/fds-smv/

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