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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Josh,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is my experience that the compute nodes MUST be
able to access the license server. We have set up NAT on the master nodes. (if
you don't know NAT does some fancy things which allow a private network to talk
to a public network). We have many software packages which use licence servers,
and this is the only method I know of apart from installing the license server
on the master node.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope this helps,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ashley</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=hpc.group@gmail.com href="mailto:hpc.group@gmail.com">group hpc</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=a2.wright@qut.edu.au
href="mailto:a2.wright@qut.edu.au">Ashley Wright</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 12, 2005 5:03
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [torqueusers] Abaqus with
PBS</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi Ashley,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the info. We still unable to get the abaqus to work, I
believe the problem is due to the compute nodes (Slave nodes) not be
able to access to the license server directly. Only Master node able
to access to the license server. Our clusters also have shared file
system, Abaqus is installed in there and available for all nodes. Do I
need to configure other things/environmet instead of "abaqus_v6.env"? I'm
attached the following error from the abaqus output. </DIV>
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<DIV>Server node is down or not responding<BR>See the system adminstrator
about starting the server, or<BR> make sure the you're referring to the
right host (see
LM_LICENSE_FILE)<BR>Feature:
explicit<BR>Hostname: cluster <BR>License
path: <A href="mailto:27001@cluster">27001@cluster</A><BR>FLEXlm
error: -96,482<BR>For further information, refer to the ABAQUS
Installation and Licensing Guide,<BR>or contact your ABAQUS Inc.
representative. </DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Pls let me know if you have an idea to fix this. Thank you for your time.
:-)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Josh<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 9/12/05, <B class=gmail_sendername>Ashley
Wright</B> <<A
href="mailto:a2.wright@qut.edu.au">a2.wright@qut.edu.au</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi
Josh,<BR><BR>I set up Abaqus (6.5-4) on our cluster last week. The first
thing is the<BR>nodes in our cluster have a shared file system, we use for
software <BR>packages (for us this is called /pkg). Abaqus is installed here
and so<BR>is available on all the nodes. We also have NAT setup on the
master<BR>nodes so that Abaqus can access the license server (which is on
another<BR>network).<BR><BR>Assuming this is set up you need to create a
site file 'abaqus_v6.env'<BR>most of the directives are specified in the
manual but here are the<BR>important one for torque:<BR><BR>#Set up your MPI
environment, this is for LAM which we use at QUT. <BR>#We also use ssh
instead of rsh.<BR>mp_mpi_implementation = LAM<BR>mp_mpirun_path =
{LAM:'/usr/local/bin/mpiexec',<BR>
MPICH:'/usr/local/mpich-1.2.5/bin/mpirun',<BR>
MPICHGM:'/usr/local/mpichgm-
1.2.6..14a/bin/mpirun.ch_gm'}<BR>mp_mpirun_options =
'-boot'<BR>#mp_rsh_command = 'rsh -n -l %U %H %C'<BR>mp_rsh_command = 'ssh
-x -n -l %U %H %C'<BR><BR>#this is the location of the license
server<BR>abaquslm_license_file=" <A
href="mailto:1712@sirius.qut.edu.au">1712@sirius.qut.edu.au</A>"<BR><BR>doc_root="<A
href="http://auriga.qut.edu.au/abaqus/">http://auriga.qut.edu.au/abaqus/</A>"<BR><BR>#<BR>#
QUT batch queue setup; abaqus_2cpus is the default queue <BR># (Using bash
as the PBS interpreter is better than tcsh - fewer probs!)<BR>#<BR>run_mode
= BATCH<BR>scratch =
"/tmp"<BR><BR><BR>max_cpus=8<BR>cpus=2<BR><BR><BR>queue_name=["abaqus_2cpus","abaqus_4cpus","abaqus_8cpus"]
<BR>queue_cmd="qsub -r n -q abaqus_nolimit -S /bin/bash -V -l nodes=1:ppn=2
%S"<BR>abaqus_2cpus="qsub -r n -q abaqus_nolimit -S /bin/bash -V
-l<BR>nodes=1:ppn=2 %S"<BR>abaqus_4cpus="qsub -r n -q abaqus_nolimit -S
/bin/bash -V -l <BR>nodes=2:ppn=2 %S"<BR>abaqus_8cpus="qsub -r n -q
abaqus_nolimit -S /bin/bash -V -l<BR>nodes=4:ppn=2 %S"<BR><BR><BR><BR>Using
this setup the user submits a job (from the master node) like
so:<BR> 'abaqus job=pillar queue=abaqus_8cpus cpus=8' <BR><BR>I
hope this helps,<BR>Ashley<BR><BR><BR><BR>group hpc wrote:<BR><BR>>
Hi,<BR>><BR>> Does anyone know how to setup Abaqus application to work
with Torque<BR>> and Maui in cluster environment? We are still struggling
to get abaqus <BR>> work on our cluster. We have installed abaqus on our
cluster (Master<BR>> Node), but will grab the license from other license
server. The job<BR>> able to run directly without go thru scheduler.
However, when we tried <BR>> to submit the job thru scheduler, the job
won't run due to the license<BR>> problem. Does anyone know howto resolve
this problem?<BR>> //<BR>> Thanks,<BR>>
Josh<BR>><BR>><BR>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Wright<BR>3864 9264<BR><A
href="mailto:a2.wright@qut.edu.au">a2.wright@qut.edu.au</A><BR>HPC and
Research Support Group<BR>Queensland University of Technology
(QUT)<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Josh
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