Introduction

An engineering modeling tool installed for Amir Shojaei at S3DF (documentation here)

Have license for 8 cores, may increase up to 36 cores in future.

Abaqus ships with its own MPI, but in principle can be overridden with system mpi.

Quick Start

ssh s3dflogin (or use
ssh psana
export PATH=/sdf/group/lcls/eng/abaqus/commands:${PATH}
to get example: abq2022hf5 fetch -j c2 (fetches c2.inp from local examples)
for very quick test of functionality run interactively:
- export ABA_BATCH_OVERRIDE=1 (we think we have to also "unset ABA_BATCH_OVERRIDE") when we are done with interactive mode
- abq2022hf5 -j c2 -cpus 8 -inter
for production run in the slurm batch queue that has been allocated to LCLS:
- abq2022hf5 -j c2 -cpus 8 -queue milano (can also add "-verbose 2" for more output (or without the "-", have to use "=")
- remove memory limits: "abq2022hf5 -j c2 -cpus 8 -queue milano:mem0" (note: no delimiter after "mem" keyword)
help for submitting to slurm is in /sdf/group/lcls/eng/abaqus/2022/linux_a64/SMA/site/instructions.txt, for example (from this file):
- abaqus -job myJob -cpus 6 -queue priority:fslocal:ppn1:em64t
- sbatch's "account" option may be synonymous with "project" (seems to set an sbatch "wckey" option?)
To turn off mpi and use threads:
- use option "mp_mode=THREADS"

You can search the web for more details about these commands.

"cd" changes directorires
"find" finds files
"vi" and "emacs" are common text editors
"winscp" can be used as a tool on a windows machine to transfer files between linux and your local machine