Integration with PBS (Portable Batch System)

The PBSPro and PBS/Torque schedulers are only supported on Linux. Jobs may be submitted in any of the following ways:

• Job Submission GUI
• Using PBS commands (qsub, etc.) or the PBS gui (xpbs)

See the Ansys Electromagnetics Suite 2024 R2 Unix/Linux Installation Guide for additional information on supported schedulers.

PBS Job Management

You can use Ansys Electronics Desktop to submit batch jobs to PBS and monitor those jobs.

This involves the following steps:

1. Use Tools > Job Management > Select Scheduler to select PBS as the scheduler.
2. Use Tools > Job Management > Submit Job to submit a batch job to PBS.

   PBS-specific Settings:

   • On the Compute Resources tab, click the Resource Selection Parameters ellipses button (...) to specify either the Queue or QueueAtServer parameter.

     For Queue, you may select a queue for the job from the list of queues configured for the default server. Only queues that are enabled and that do not have the from_route_only attribute set to true are listed.

     For QueueAtServer, you may specify a queue at the default server or at another server by entering text into this field in one of three formats:

     • queue_name
     • @server_name
     • queue_name@server_name

     The queue_name format submits with the name queue_name. The other formats submit with the name server_name. The destination value of the -q destination option on the qsub command line is the user-specified string. This string will not be validated by the scheduler proxy library.

     Either Queue or QueueAtServer may be specified, but both may not be specified. If neither Queue nor QueueAtServer is specified, the job is submitted to the default queue at the default server.

3. Use Tools > Job Management > Monitor Job to monitor the job's progress.