Using Ansys with X pass-through

Overview

To use the CXFEL Ansys installation with X pass-through, on agave, you will need to have a couple of things in place.

In order to use Ansys, you will need to supply your ASURITE to Research Computing, so they may add this to the license file.

Getting started

To start with, the machine you are using, will need to have x enabled, either by using a tool like mobaxterm on windows, x-ming with putty, or x-quartz on mac. These tools allow the SSH session to be passed with the -X flag, which will enable the x window of a remote system, to show up locally.

Connecting to Agave

Once you have verified that you have x enabled on your system, you will need to SSH to agave.asu.edu (with the -X flag).

Once on the system, you will run the following command

to get an interactive session on the HPC cluster. This will put you on to a compute node and allow you to run more computationally intensive software.

Running Ansys

After your interactive session has began, you can load the Ansys module. To do this, run the command

which will put the Ansys software in to your path. Once this has been run, you will see a bit of information on screen about how to use the software. To run the Ansys workbench, run “runwb2” which should get you to the following screen

Open

From here, you are good to continue using Ansys.