Fluent is the industry-leading fluid simulation software used to predict fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reactions and other related phenomena.
NCI installs fluent as part of the ANSYS package, load the ansys module file to add executables into your search path.
module load ansys/2021r1 |
There are also license module files for users to configure where to check out ANSYS licence(s). Users need to join the corresponding ansys software group before they can see the license module file. The software group membership gives access to the license module, for example, only members of ansys_nci group can see the license module `ansys_licence/nci`, and allows checkouts from the corresponding licensing server.
To load the licence module for your own ansys software group, please run
module load ansys_licence/<institution> |
A example job submission script (ansysjob.sh) is provided below. It requests 96 processors, 380 GB of memory, 400GB of local disk space for 10 minutes in the normal queue and tells the job to mount /g/data/ab01 and /scratch/ab01 project folder into the job. Within the job it tells fluent to use the openmpi provided by Gadi instead of their own to run the simulation on $PBS_NCPUS processors.
#!/bin/csh #PBS -q normal #PBS -l walltime=00:10:00 #PBS -l ncpus=96 #PBS -l mem=380Gb #PBS -l jobfs=400GB #PBS -l storage=gdata/ab01+scratch/ab01 #PBS -l software=<license_string> #PBS -l wd module load ansys/2021r1 module load ansys_licence/<institution> fluent 3ddp -g -mpi=hpcx -t $PBS_NCPUS -i test.jou >& outputfile |
Note that the submission script uses the PBS directive`-l software`, to ask the job scheduler for the reservation of ansys licence seats from license <license_string> , see details in the section License requirements below. To change the number of processors, memory, or jobfs required, and/or project folders to mount, simply modify the appropriate PBS resource requests at the top of this file.
The maximum number of CPU cores a fluent job can use is limited by the license availability. For example, NCI owns an academic ANSYS license file which has 128 seats for the hpc feature and it supports jobs request up to 128 CPU cores. If you submit many 128-core fluent jobs, they are expected to run one at a time.
Once the job submission script is saved to the same directory in which the journal file test.jou is located, run
qsub ansysjob.sh |
inside that directory to submit your job to the PBS scheduler.
If you need to run Fluent for a very long period of time which exceeds the default walltime limit set for the job, see the walltime limit for different queues and number of cores on the Queue Limits page, we suggest to add checkpoints to the long job, save restart files and use the last one as input to the next job.
Users from the following institutions have access to their own institution licenses and should join the corresponding software group. To join the corresponding software group in the table below, login to my.nci.org.au first, search for the group by the software group name, and use the tab `Join` on its project page to submit the membership request. It may take up to 1 business day for the lead CI to respond. Once your group membership request is approved, the corresponding licence module becomes visible to use. Run `module avail ansys` to list all ansys related modulefiles. Jobs need to load the license module together with the application module to run fluent.
| License Owner | license module | PBS Directive `-lsoftware=` | software group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | ansys_licence/rmit | ansys_rmit | ansys_rmit |
| The University of Wollongong | ansys_licence/wollongong | ansys_wollongong | ansys_wollongong |
| The University of New South Wales | ansys_licence/unsw | unsw_ansys | unsw_ansys |
| The University of Sydney | ansys_licence/usyd | ansys_usyd | ansys_usyd |
| NCI* | ansys_licence/nci | ansys_nci | ansys_nci |
* NCI owns an academic ANSYS license file which provides 25 CFD feature seats and 128 HPC feature seats. Users who have no access to the above licenses are welcome to join the software group ansys_nci to enable the access to modulefile ansys_licence/nci and the checkouts from licence ansys_nci.