fesafe

Overview

APP is a program to

Version N.M is installed on the CSF.

Restrictions on use

The following are conditions of our site licence:

FE-SAFE may be used, on campus only, by any employee or student of the University of Manchester, or other person authorised by the University, for the purpose of the normal business of the University. The software may not be used for research, consultancy or services leading to commercial exploitation of the software, or ANY purpose which leads to it being commercially exploited by the employer of students on industrial placement or part-time courses. You are not permitted to copy or transfer the software or documentation.

To use FE-SAFE on the CSF you must be a registered postgraduate or staff user of the CSF and you must complete the Application for Authority to use ABAQUS on the CSF (PDF) (the license for both is the same and they are often used in conjunction with each other), make sure both you and your supervisor sign it (in ink), then scan the form and email it to its-ri-team@manchester.ac.uk .

Once your form has been received you will be added to the fesafe unix group and sent a confirmation email.

Set up procedure

To access the software you must first load the modulefile:

module load apps/path/to/module/n.m

Running the application

Please do not run XXX on the login node. Jobs should be submitted to the compute nodes via batch.

Serial batch job submission

Make sure you have the modulefile loaded then create a batch submission script, for example:

#!/bin/bash
#$ -S /bin/bash
#$ -cwd             # Job will run from the current directory
#$ -V               # Job will inherit current environment settings

APP arg1 arg2 > out.log

Submit the jobscript using:

qsub scriptname

where scriptname is the name of your jobscript.

Parallel batch job submission

Given an example parallel jobscript, including suitable PE

Further info

• APP website

Updates

None.