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== Native desktop version with license forwarding == | == Native desktop version with license forwarding == | ||
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You can use a native Comsol version on your desktop but need a connection to the Comsol license server running on Carbon. | You can use a native Comsol version on your desktop but need a connection to the Comsol license server running on Carbon. | ||
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* Locate and start the COMSOL Multiphysics application. | * Locate and start the COMSOL Multiphysics application. | ||
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Ways to start multi-core (from http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1096/) | Ways to start multi-core (from http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1096/) | ||
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* COMSOL does not benefit from hyperthreading. | * COMSOL does not benefit from hyperthreading. | ||
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comsol -clustersimple batch -inputfile input.mph -outputfile output.mph | comsol -clustersimple batch -inputfile input.mph -outputfile output.mph | ||
Revision as of 14:34, October 1, 2012
Introduction
The COMSOL Multiphysics product is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. You can run either the native version on your desktop or use the Linux version from Carbon, displaying on your desktop via X11.
- Contact me (stern) for a DVD of the software.
- Get Product Updates from Comsol.
Running comsol requires a license. Of the available features we have licensed a subset, shown at right.
Usage on Carbon
For casual use, and with X11 tunneling to Carbon already set up, simply add to your ~/.bashrc file:
module load comsol
Then, from the command line on a Carbon login node, start the COMSOL GUI:
comsol &
Comsol will use a number of cores to run calculations multithreaded by default. (On Carbon, COMSOL_NUM_THREADS is set.)
Quit the application as soon as you are done. Only one user can use Comsol at a time.
Native desktop version with license forwarding
You can use a native Comsol version on your desktop but need a connection to the Comsol license server running on Carbon. Use these steps to set up the connection.
- On your desktop machine, set up SSH tunneling.
- Windows: Configure PuTTY
- Linux/Mac/Cygwin: edit the file
~/.ssh/configand add to theHost cloginsection:
Host clogin
…
# Comsol FlexLM
LocalForward 1719 mgmt03:1719
LocalForward 1720 mgmt04:1720
LocalForward 33317 mgmt03:1718
LocalForward 33318 mgmt04:1718
#LocalForward 33319 sched1:1718
- Log in to clogin.
- Start the Comsol installer on your machine. Use the following settings when asked for licensing:
- License type: networked server
- License hosts:
localhost, port 33317 localhost, port 33318 #localhost, port 33319
- Complete the installer.
- Locate and start the COMSOL Multiphysics application.
Multiple CPU cores
Ways to start multi-core (from http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1096/)
comsol -np 2
export COMSOL_NUM_THREADS=8 # automatically provided on Carbon comsol
- COMSOL does not benefit from hyperthreading.
Batch jobs
- http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1001/ .
- Media:HPC 2012-05-16 Comsol parallel usage.pdf (Modified from http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/1001/files/4027/cluster_install_linux_42a.pptx – Appendix slide, PBS)
- Note: MPD is not supported on Carbon (I patched the main comsol script), and no longer necessary at all in Comsol-4.3.
Sample Job file
#!/bin/bash
#PBS -l nodes=2:ppn=8
#PBS -l walltime=2:00:00
#PBS -N jobname
#PBS -l software=comsol
#PBS -o job.out
#PBS -e job.err
#PBS -m ae
#PBS -V
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
comsol -clustersimple batch \
-tmpdir $TMPDIR \
-inputfile inp.mph \
-outputfile out.mph