Abaqus

Several versions of Abaqus are installed on our systems, use the command module avail abaqus to see the exact versions available.

Licensing

Abaqus is a commercial product and requires you to have a suitable license entitlement before you can run. Jobs must be explicitly configured to point to the license server that hold your license entitlement. In the job script add the line:

export LM_LICENSE_FILE=port@hostname

before running Abaqus. Your group leader will know the correct port@hostname details for their licenses.

If you have no license entitlement, licenses can be purchased from the ICT Technology Store.

Checkpointing your work

Abaqus has a built-in checkpoint and restart feature. This allows you to save your work as you go allow and to restart if a job fails or over runs. To enable checkpointing add the following to your input file:

*RESTART, WRITE, OVERLAY, FREQUENCY=10

OVERLAY maintains a single copy and overwrites it each save. FREQUENCY=10 saves the restart information every 10 time steps. Please ensure you are saving at a reasonable rate partially if you have a large simulation as it could strain the RDS.

To restart the job, create a new input file newJobName with only a single line:

*RESTART, READ

Then run Abaqus specifying both the new and old job names:

abaqus jobname=newJobName oldjob=oldJobName

Please see Abaqus documentation for more details