Abaqus

Brief Description:

Abaqus is a general purpose finite element analysis package. It can be used to simulate the response of structures and solid bodies to loads, impacts and thermal stress and to visualize the results of simulations.

Abaqus is available to all NCSA academic users on the following systems:

• GPU Linux Cluster (forge.ncsa.illinois.edu), 6.11-1

Commercial use of Abaqus is governed by the NCSA Private Sector Program. Please contact Seid Koric at skoric@ncsa.edu for more information. 

Interactive Access:

Interactive limits on are 30 minutes and 1 Gb of RAM, and therefore interactive access should be used for very small jobs only.

• To use Abaqus interactively on Forge type:
  module load csm/Abaqus
  
  abaqus [list of line command options, same as in Abaqus Manuals]
  
  
  All users must be added to the access list for Abaqus.

Batch Jobs:

For large Abaqus jobs a special script abaqus_batch is available to submit jobs to the batch queuing system.

• To run Abaqus 6.11 in batch on Forge, type:
  
  module load csm/Abaqus
  
  abaqus_batch

Note that --mem option is not necessary to be specified in abaqus_batch anymore since Abaqus memory is fixed in its environment file

Due to the large number of Abaqus users and limited license pool, number of submitted Abaqus batch jobs is restricted to 4 max at the time per user on Forge.

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If you have problems accessing Abaqus at NCSA, please send email to csm@ncsa.edu.