Abaqus
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Abaqus is a tool for engineering modelling including structural dynamics, impact/crash modelling and acoustic/thermal coupling.

Licencing
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Licences for Abaqus are procured and managed centrally by ICT.

Availability
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Abaqus is available for Windows (via the Software Hub) and Linux. Installation media are available in ``/storage/public/software/abaqus`` on the Linux systems.

On the departmental Linux environment, Abaqus is available from the *Education* section of the desktop *Application* menu. It can also be launched from the terminal by loading the appropriate module:

.. code:: bash

   module load abaqus

Run Abaqus by typing:

.. code:: bash

   abaqus


Departmental cluster usage
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To run STAR-CCM+ on the departmental cluster, put the following into your SLURM script:

.. code:: bash

  #!/bin/bash
  #SBATCH --nodes=1
  #SBATCH --ntasks=8
  #SBATCH --mem=8000MB
  #SBATCH --time=00:30:00
  #SBATCH --job-name=my-job
  module load abaqus
  unset SLURM_GTIDS
  abaqus job=my_job input=<input-file> mp_mode=threads cpus=$SLURM_NTASKS scratch=$TMPDIR memory="8gb" interactive

replacing

- <input-file> by the abaqus input file to use.