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I. Setup ANSYS RSM
The following steps are to establish connections between a local machine (Windows OS) and the TARA HPC for submitting ANSYS jobs through ANSYS Remote Solve Manager.
Official guide: ANSYS Remote Solve Manager User's Guide
Last update: Mar Nov 2023
1. Checklist
1.1 ANSYS Remote Solve Manager (RSM)
Please confirm that ANSYS RSM has been installed on your local machine by typing 'RSM' in the search field on your taskbar. It should be the same version as ANSYS Fluent/Mechanical.
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1.2 PuTTY (with plink.exe
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, pscp.exe and puttygen.exe)
Please confirm that the software have been installed on your local machine by typing 'plink' and 'putty key' in the search field on your taskbar.
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If you can access to the TARA HPC without using any password, then enter 'exit' to log out and proceed to the next step.
If 'Host does not exist' is displayed, please ensure that the local machine is connected to NSTDA VPN.
If any password is requested by cmd, press 'Ctrl+C' to stop, then enter command
Code Block language bash echo %KEYPATH%
→ If exactly '%KEYPATH%' is displayed, then close the cmd and redo Step 2.3 again.
→ If a path is shown but is not the path to your private key (.ppk) then close the cmd and correct it in Step 2.3.
→ If the path to your private key is shown but contain spaces, then move and/or rename your private key such that the resulting path does not contain spaces. Also, close the cmd and update KEYPATH variable in Step 2.3.
→ If the path to your private key is shown and it does not contain any spaces, then you may have define a passphrase for your SSH key pair in Step 2.1, please redo Step 2.1-2.3 again or Contact Us if the problem persists.
3. Loading ANSYS by default
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Enter the information as shown below.
Substitute in ‘your-tara-account’ (HPC project) for SU to be charged from.
It should either look like ‘preXXXX' or ‘projXXXX’.
After substituting it in, there should be a space both before '-t’ and after '-A’.Substitute in 'your-tara-username' that used and verified in Step 2.2, 2.4 and 3.0.
Click ‘Apply' at the bottom.
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You should be able to click the ‘Submit' button of the column ‘Test’ and row 'Devel’.
Click 'Submit' to send a test job by RSM to TARA.
If the job is completed successfully, the blue question mark will be replaced by a green check mark.
If the job ends unsuccessfully, please click the adjacent report cell to view the log then correct the previous steps accordingly, or Contact Us if the problem persists.
4.2 Add 'TARA-Compute'
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Enter your password, used when opening the TARA terminal, of that username.
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II. Running ANSYS Fluent
Example 1: A setup for 40 CPU cores on TARA-Compute
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Example 2: A setup for doing parametric analysis on TARA-Compute: 2 jobs per run, 3 tasks per job and 4 CPU cores per task, which will use 3*4+1 = 13 CPU cores per job.
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III. Running ANSYS Mechanical
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Example 1: A setup for 40 CPU cores, 8 processes with 5 threads per process, on TARA-Compute.
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For user supports, contact your ANSYS provider such as
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For technical supports regarding HPC job submission,
Contact Us
ThaiSC support service : thaisc-support@nstda.or.th