The ANSYS suite of programs is installed on the Helium cluster. To use them, you will need to have access to a license server that will validate your right to use the software. The license servers are not run on Helium so please check with your department for more information. Once you know how to access your license server, run the license setup program on Helium. This is a graphical program so you will have to have X11 forwarding enabled in your SSH session.
 | Licensing Servers Note that if you are not part of the IIHR investor group (which is selected by default), you will need to obtain the proper licesnse server information from your PI, and then export a variable before running the license manager. An example would look like:
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Next, run this command to open the License setup GUI:
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After that is set up then you can run your ANSYS programs with something like the following:
#!/bin/sh##$ -N Job_Name#$ -cwd#$ -j y#$ -pe fluent 32#$ -S /bin/bash/opt/ansys_inc/v121/fluent/bin/fluent 3ddp -t$NSLOTS -g -cnf=$TMPDIR/machines -sge -pinfiniband -mpi=openmpi -i File.in > File.out |
Again note that if you are not part of IIHR, you should have License Manager environment variables specified in your job script like below:
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#!/bin/sh # #$ -N Job_name#$ -cwd #$ -j y #$ -pe fluent 20#$ -S /bin/bash #$ -l mf=2G export ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE=1055@<server>.uiowa.eduexport LM_LICENSE_FILE=1055@<server>.uiowa.edu/opt/ansys_inc/v121/fluent/bin/fluent 3d -t$NSLOTS -g -cnf=$TMPDIR/machines -sge -pinfiniband -mpi=openmpi -i File.in >File.out |