Course curriculum

  • 1
    1. Getting Started
    • Welcome to Using Abaqus on TotalCAE
    • How Abaqus runs on TotalCAE
    • Logging in and finding your way around
    • Getting your model onto the cluster
  • 2
    2. Submitting a Job from the Portal
    • A tour of the Abaqus job form
    • The mandatory fields you fill in
    • Choosing what hardware to run on, and other runtime options
    • Time limit, cost, project and account
    • Extra Arguments, Additional Files and Post Processing
    • Email alerts and comments
    • Specific Cloud Tips
    • Hands-on: submit your first Abaqus job
    • Copy the tsubmit command instead of submitting with a web page
  • 3
    3. Monitoring and Managing Jobs
    • The List Jobs page
    • Why is my job not running yet?
    • Peek Output: watching the .sta and .msg while it runs
    • Estimated time remaining
    • The right-click menu
    • Stopping a job: Cancel vs Terminate
    • Job emails and TotalCAE Watchdog
  • 4
    4. Getting Your Results
    • What an Abaqus job writes
    • Reading the logs
    • Downloading results
    • Post-processing in batch
    • Viewing models and results
  • 5
    5. Submitting from the Command Line with tsubmit
    • Before you start: enable tsubmit
    • Reading tsubmit abaqus --help
    • Hands-on: submit e13 with tsubmit
    • Watching and controlling jobs from the CLI
    • Scripting Abaqus runs
  • 6
    6. Abaqus Licensing on TotalCAE
    • How license-aware scheduling works
    • Checking license use
    • Suspending and resuming tokens
    • DSLS credits and legacy licensing
  • 7
    7. Advanced Job Types
    • Restarting a job
    • User subroutines
    • Abaqus/Explicit in double precision
    • Submodeling
    • Jobs that wait for other jobs
    • Co-simulation with CFD
  • 8
    8. Performance and Sizing
    • How many cores and how much memory?
    • Run From Local Scratch
    • Scaling Abaqus/Standard across nodes
    • Hybrid MPI and threads for Abaqus/Explicit
    • Running on GPUs
    • Keeping an eye on cost and utilization if using TotalCAE on the cloud
  • 9
    9. Troubleshooting and Getting Help
    • Where to look when a job does not behave
    • More detail with verbose
    • Getting help from TotalCAE
  • 10
    10. Wrap-up and Next Steps
    • Put it all together: e13 from the portal and from tsubmit
    • Where to go next