CFX is a general purpose fluid dynamics product from ANSYS<\/a>. <\/p>\n CFX is installed alongside fluent. You will need to be in the fluent unix group to access it. Only MACE users may be added to the fluent group. <\/p>\n You must load one<\/em> of the following modulefiles to access CFX. Several versions are available:<\/p>\n If you wish to compile your own user-defined routines (e.g., a fortran .F file to be compiled in to your simulation), you should also load one of the Intel Compiler Fortran modulefiles. For example:<\/p>\n See the CSF Intel Compiler page<\/a> for more details of available versions.<\/p>\n Please do not run CFX on the login node.<\/p>\n Make sure you have the modulefile loaded and your input file available on the CSF. Then write a batch submission script, for example:<\/p>\n Now submit it to the batch system:<\/p>\n replacing Notes about the script:<\/p>\n replacing The SGE\/batch error output file e.g. several times. This is common and does not cause a problem to running jobs.<\/p>\n Please do not run the GUI on the login node. If you require the GUI please run it via If you get the error ‘Your “qrsh” request could not be scheduled, try again later!”‘ it means that there are no interactive resources available. You can try ‘-l short’ instead of ‘-l twoday’ or submit as a serial job instead.<\/p>\n CSF qrsh documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Documentation is available via the GUI.<\/p>\n Additional updates made to the package if appropriate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview CFX is a general purpose fluid dynamics product from ANSYS. Restrictions on use CFX is installed alongside fluent. You will need to be in the fluent unix group to access it. Only MACE users may be added to the fluent group. Set up procedure You must load one of the following modulefiles to access CFX. Several versions are available: module load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/19.0 module load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/18.1 module load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/18.0 module load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/16.2 module load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/14.5.. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/4974"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Restrictions on use<\/h2>\n
Set up procedure<\/h2>\n
\r\nmodule load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/19.0\r\nmodule load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/18.1\r\nmodule load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/18.0\r\nmodule load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/16.2\r\nmodule load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/14.5\r\nmodule load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/14.0\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nmodule load compilers\/intel\/fortran\/17.0.2\r\n<\/pre>\n
Running the application<\/h2>\n
Serial batch job submission<\/h3>\n
\r\n #$ -V\r\n #$ -cwd\r\n\r\n cfx5solve -def CombustorEDM.def\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n qsub scriptname\r\n<\/pre>\n
scriptname<\/code> with the name of your submission script.<\/p>\nParallel batch job submission<\/h3>\n
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\r\n#$ -V\r\n#$ -cwd\r\n#$ -pe fluent-smp.pe 4\r\n\r\ncfx5solve -start-method \"$PLATMPI\" -def CombustorEDM.def -par-local -partition $NSLOTS\r\n<\/pre>\n
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-start-method \"$PLATMPI\"<\/code> (including the quotes as shown) is important and ensures that the most suitable MPI is used.<\/li>\n-partition $NSLOTS<\/code> (no quotes needed here) is important to ensure that the number of cores requested is used.<\/li>\nfluent-smp.pe<\/code> as this is a special configuration to ensure the software runs correctly in batch<\/li>\n\r\n qsub scriptname\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
scriptname<\/code> with the name of your submission script.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nErrors<\/h3>\n
mycfxjob.e12345<\/code> may report:<\/p>\n\r\nmap size mismatch; abort\r\n: File exists\r\n<\/pre>\n
Interactive use<\/h3>\n
qrsh<\/code>. <\/p>\n\n
module load apps\/binapps\/cfx\/14.0<\/pre>\n
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qrsh -V -l inter -l twoday cfx5<\/pre>\n<\/ul>\n
Further info<\/h2>\n
Updates<\/h2>\n