Abaqus
Abaqus FEA is a software suite for finite element analysis and computer-aided engineering, originally released in 1978.
Using your own license[edit]
Abaqus is available on Compute Canada clusters. However, you must provide your own license. You can configure your own license by creating a file $HOME/.licenses/abaqus.lic in your account, containing a single line of the syntax prepend_path("LM_LICENSE_FILE","port@server", ";"). You will need to contact us to obtain the list of IP addresses that the license server needs to accept requests from. When you contact us, make sure to include the port and IP address of the license server so that we can configure the firewall on our side as well. Better yet, you can put us in direct contact with the technical person who manages your license server so that we can sort out details directly with them.
Submission scripts[edit]
Below is an example submission script for a small Abaqus Explicit job running on four cores:
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --time=1-00:00
#SBATCH --mem=2500M
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=4
module load abaqus/6.14.1
unset SLURM_GTIDS
export MPI_IC_ORDER='tcp'
abaqus job=Job-SBS-ALU-EXPLICIT-01 input=2018-04-14-SBS-ALUMINUM-EXPLICIT-01.inp memory="2 gb" scratch=$SCRATCH cpus=4 interactive