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This page describes how to run the Ansys GUI through Pawsey's remote visualisation service, FastX. This will get you a dedicated node on Nebula with large memory and hardware accelerated graphics . |
Prerequisites
To run interactive graphical interfaces of Ansys software you need to be familiar with these pages:
Steps
You will get an xterm from FastX. Make sure to start by setting up Ansys licensing.
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$ export ANSYSLI_SERVERS=2325@myflexlmserver.edu.au
$ export ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE=1055@myflexlmserver.edu.au |
Load the correct module and unset SLURM_GTIDS and make sure you use hardware accelerated graphics, by using virtualgl.
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# ansys mechanical is a module in ansys-structure package, and workbench is used to stage simulation
$ module load ansys-structures/version
$ module load virtualgl
$ unset SLURM_GTIDS
$ vglrun runwb2for running Ansys client on Windows for submitting jobs onto Setonix compute nodes on user's behalf, automatically.
For detailed instruction on how to run Ansys in client-server mode see visualisation documentation page: Ansys on Nebula