Abaqus

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

Licencing

Licences for Abaqus are procured and managed centrally by ICT.

Availability

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:

module load abaqus

Run Abaqus by typing:

abaqus

Departmental cluster usage

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

#!/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.