ANSYS v14
R
Remote
t Solve
S l
Manager
© 2012 CAE Associates
About RSM
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Supported Solvers:
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Mechanical
Mechanical APDL
CFX
Fluent
Note: Some solver feature limitations exist when submitting CFD jobs to
RSM (i.e. RIF Flamelet cases in CFX and System Coupling with Fluent).
Refer to the following section in the documentation for a full list of
limitations:
// User's Guide // Working in ANSYS Workbench // Submitting Solutions
for Local
Local, Background
Background, and Remote Solve Manager (RSM) Processes //
Submitting Fluids Jobs to RSM
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Setting up RSM
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RSM doesn
doesn’tt get configured during installation
installation. RSM needs to be
configured and running on all machines involved.
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To configure,
config re follo
follow these steps
steps:
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Open up the task manager and kill all processes starting with Ans.Rsm
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Open up a command prompt and change directories to:
<install
install directory>\v140\RSM\bin
directory \v140\RSM\bin
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Run the following command: AnsConfigRSM.exe –mgr –svr
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IMPORTANT: This must be done on both the host and remote machines.
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Setting up RSM
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Launch RSM from the start menu
menu.
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RMB click on “My Computer” in the outline tree of RSM and select “Set
Pass ord”
Password”
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When prompted to enter your user name
name, just press enter (will be your
windows log in). Then enter your windows log in password.
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Setting up RSM
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RMB click on Compute Servers and select “Add
Add…”
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Specify
S
f a Display Name (what
(
you want the machine to appear as in the
outline) and the Machine Name (i.e. Bellagio).
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Set the working directory to a directory that exists and is writable.
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Setting up RSM
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Go back to the set password utility to enter the login name and password
for the remote machine:
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This is what your machine will use to log in to the remote machine.
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Setting up RSM
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RMB click on My Computer and select “Accounts”
Accounts to match up the log in
names/passwords to the correct compute servers.
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Setting up RSM
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Finally add a new queue by RMB clicking on “Queues”
Finally,
Queues in the outline tree
tree.
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Give the queue a name and select the compute servers you want to be
incl ded
included.
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Using RSM in WB
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In Mechanical
Mechanical, you can set up a method to submit jobs to a queue using
the Solve Process Settings found in the Tools menu.
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First, click “Add Remote” and specif
First
specify a name for the Remote Sol
Solve
e
Process:
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Using RSM in WB
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Specify “localhost”
localhost as the Solver Manager
—
Your local machine will handle the job queuing, but won’t do any solving unless
your machine is in the queue.
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Select the Queue that you created in RSM from the “Queue” drop down
menu:
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IMPORTANT: Make sure you select a license that you actually have
access to. License errors are not handled well by RSM.
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Using RSM in WB
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Now, when you
Now
you’re
re ready to solve,
solve click on the little arrow next to the yellow
thunderstorms.
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Clicking on “Cluster1”
Cluster1 will send the job to the Remote queue that was
previously set up.
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You can monitor the run in RSM and download the results when it’s
it s
finished.
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Using RSM in WB
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To efficiently run a series of design points in WB
WB, use RSM
RSM.
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In the example, I have a Static Structural analysis that has parametric
loads that I want
ant to e
explore.
plore I set up
pe
everything
er thing in the anal
analysis
sis and make
the following changes from the project page:
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In the properties of the solution cell, change the “Update Option” to
“Submit to Remote Solve Manager” and select the Solve Process Setting
that you had previously set up:
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Using RSM in WB
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In the properties of the Parameter Set
Set, set Update Option to “Run
Run in
Foreground”
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This will read in the design point info; update the geometry, mesh, and
solver input file; then send the input file to the queue to be solved
solved. Once
the 1st design point is out and running, WB will move on to generating the
solver input file for design point 2 and send it out.
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Multiple design points can be solved simultaneously!
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