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Launching Abaqus on an Oakley Desktop

Last edited by Eric Franz

Hardware Rendering

Pros

  • better performance for 3D visualization
  • best for design and meshing

Cons

  • longer wait time for the job to start as there are less nodes with GPUs

Launching Oakley Desktop

Steps used to starting up an Oakley Desktop utilizing hardware rendering:

  1. Browse to the AweSim Dashboard: https://apps.awesim.org/devapps/
  2. Choose the Oakley Desktop app from the dashboard
  3. Setup the Oakley Desktop session to your choosing in the form displayed on the right
  4. Under Node type be sure to select vis
  5. Click Launch
  6. Wait until your job leaves the Queued state and is Running
  7. Follow the instructions in the panel to connect

Launching Abaqus

Steps for starting up Abaqus on the Oakley Desktop:

  1. Click the Applications menu in top left

  2. Navigate to and click System Tool => Terminal

  3. In the terminal type:

    $ module load virtualgl
$ module load abaqus/6.14-nimbis
$ vglrun abaqus cae

  4. Enjoy!

Software Rendering

Pros

  • shorter wait time for job to start
  • best for heavy computation and solving

Cons

  • slow performance for 3D visualization

Launching Oakley Desktop

Steps used to starting up an Oakley Desktop utilizing hardware rendering:

  1. Browse to the AweSim Dashboard: https://apps.awesim.org/devapps/
  2. Choose the Oakley Desktop app from the dashboard
  3. Setup the Oakley Desktop session to your choosing in the form displayed on the right
  4. Under Node type be sure to select any
  5. Click Launch
  6. Wait until your job leaves the Queued state and is Running
  7. Follow the instructions in the panel to connect

Launching Abaqus

Steps for starting up Abaqus on the Oakley Desktop:

  1. Click the Applications menu in top left

  2. Navigate to and click System Tool => Terminal

  3. In the terminal type:

    $ module load abaqus/6.14-nimbis
$ abaqus cae -mesa

  4. Enjoy!