Attention

The ShARC HPC cluster was decommissioned on the 30th of November 2023 at 17:00. It is no longer possible for users to access that cluster.

ANSYS

The ANSYS suite of programs can be used to numerically simulate a large variety of structural and fluid dynamics problems found in many engineering, physics, medical, aeronautics and automotive industry applications.

Caution

ANSYS users can now use a maximum of 400 concurrent cores, across all devices on campus, including personal machines and HPC clusters, and regardless of the number of ANSYS applications they have open. Please see ANSYS license restrictions for more detail.

Module loading

After connecting to ShARC (see Establishing a SSH connection), you can start an interactive graphical session or submit a batch job using ANSYS programs by activating them and making them available with one of the module load commands below:

module load apps/ansys/15.0
module load apps/ansys/16.1
module load apps/ansys/17.2
module load apps/ansys/18.0/binary
module load apps/ansys/18.2/binary
module load apps/ansys/19.0/binary
module load apps/ansys/19.1/binary
module load apps/ansys/19.2/binary
module load apps/ansys/19.3/binary
module load apps/ansys/19.4/binary
module load apps/ansys/20.1/binary
module load apps/ansys/20.2/binary
module load apps/ansys/21.1/binary
module load apps/ansys/21.2/binary
module load apps/ansys/22.2/binary

The ANSYS Workbench GUI executable is runwb2. runwb2 can be launched during an interactive session with X Window support (e.g. an interactive qrshx session).

ANSYS Programs

As the ANSYS suite contains a large number of packages, links to each dedicated page for each ANSYS sub-package, can be found below:

ANSYS training and help resources

Important

Academic support requests should be directed to the IT Services’ Research and Innovation team or the ANSYS Learning Forum (ensure you register with your University email for priority support).

ANSYS provides numerous academic training and help resources including tutorials, video lectures and examples. A short list of these resources is summarised below:

ANSYS example models

ANSYS contains a large number of example models which can be used to become familiar with the software. The models can be found in:

/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/22.2/binary/v222/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/21.2/binary/v212/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/21.1/binary/v211/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/20.2/binary/v202/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/20.1/binary/v201/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/19.4/binary/v194/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/19.3/binary/v193/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/19.2/binary/v192/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/19.1/binary/v191/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/19.0/binary/v190/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/18.2/binary/v182/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/18.0/binary/v180/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/17.2/v172/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/16.1/v161/ansys/data
/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/15.0.7/ansys_inc/v150/ansys/data

Installation notes

The mpi-rsh tight-integration parallel environment is required to run ANSYS/Fluent using MPI due to SSH access to worker nodes being prohibited for most users.

ANSYS 15.0 was installed using the install_ansys.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/15.0/binary.

ANSYS 16.1 was installed using the install_ansys.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/16.1.

ANSYS 17.2 was installed using the install_ansys.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/17.2.

ANSYS 18.0 was installed using the install_ansys_180.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/18.0/binary.

ANSYS 18.2 was installed using the install_ansys_182.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/18.2/binary.

ANSYS 19.0 was installed using the install_ansys_190.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/19.0/binary.

ANSYS 19.1 was installed using the install_ansys_191.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/19.1/binary.

ANSYS 19.2 was installed using the install_ansys_192.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/19.2/binary.

ANSYS 19.3 was installed using the install_ansys_193.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/19.3/binary.

ANSYS 19.4 was installed using the install_ansys_194.sh script; the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/19.4/binary.

ANSYS 20.1 was installed using the GUI installer with all features and the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/20.1/binary.

ANSYS 20.2 was installed using the GUI installer with all features and the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/20.2/binary.

ANSYS 21.1 was installed using the GUI installer with all features and the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/21.1/binary.

ANSYS 21.2 was installed using the GUI installer with all features and the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/21.2/binary.

ANSYS 22.2 was installed using the GUI installer with all features and the module file is /usr/local/modulefiles/apps/ansys/22.2/binary.

ANSYS 20.1, and higher were installed using the GUI installer and then permissions were corrected as follows:

chmod 775 -R /usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/20.1/binary
chmod 775 -R /usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/20.2/binary
chmod 775 -R /usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/21.1/binary
chmod 775 -R /usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/21.2/binary
chmod 775 -R /usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/22.2/binary

Please follow the same install directory structure.

For versions 19.3 & 19.4 and onward mapdl will not run without modifying the file:

/usr/local/packages/apps/ansys/19.4/binary/v194/ansys/bin/anssh.ini

The following instruction should be inserted at line 2127 in anssh.ini:

setenv KMP_AFFINITY compact