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