Submit the Large Scale DSO Job: Examples
This section includes examples of submitting a Large Scale DSO job using Ansoft RSM and a Scheduler.
Functionality featured in the example(s) in this section applies to multiple design types.
Using the Ansoft RSM Environment
- Before submitting the job make sure that the input project is not open in any Ansys Electronics Desktop window.
- For this example, suppose that there are two quad-core machines on your cluster with the names "m1" and "m2". Further suppose that there are two engines per machine, for a total of four parallel engines. Let the number of processors allocated to each engine be 1.
- From a command prompt, issue the following command:
<installation-directory>\v<version>\<platform>\desktopjob.exe -cmd dso -machinelist "list=m1:2,m2:2" -batchoptions \\sjo7na\aedtprojs\hfssoptions.txt -batchsolve "TeeModel:Optimetrics:ParametricSetup1" \\sjo7na\aedtprojs\OptimTee.aedt
where the file \\sjo7na\hfssproj\hfssoptions.txt has the following contents:
$begin Config
'Desktop/Settings/ProjectOptions/NumberOfProcessors'=1
'HFSS/Preferences/SaveBeforeSolving'=0
'HFSS/Preferences/HPCLicenceType'='pack'
#end 'Config'
- Suppose the above job is assigned ID "jobID".
Using a Scheduler Environment (such as LSF)
- Suppose you want to solve variations using four parallel engines, each engine being assigned a single core.
- From a command prompt, run the following command:
bsub -n 4 <installation-directory>\v<version>\<platform>\desktopjob.exe -cmd dso -batchoptions \\sjo7na\hfssprojs\hfssoptions.txt -batchsolve "TeeModel:Optimetrics:ParametricSetup1"\\sjo7na\hfssprojs\OptimTee.aedt
where the file \\sjo7na\hfssproj\hfssoptions.txt has the same contents as the RSM example above.
- Suppose the above job is assigned an ID "jobid"
For example with 2 nodes of 44 cores each (with multiple distributed variations per machine):
MANUAL: bsub -n 88 <installation-directory>\v<version>\<platform>\desktopjob -cmd dso -machinelist num=8 -monitor -useelectronicsppe=1 -ng -batchoptions " '
AUTO: bsub -n 88 <installation-directory>\v<version>\<platform>\desktopjob -cmd dso -machinelist numcores=88 -auto -NumDistributedVariations 8 -monitor -useelectronicsppe=1 -ng -batchoptions " '
For example, with 16 nodes of 44 cores each (note each distributed variation will span 2 machines):
AUTO: bsub -n 704 <installation-directory>\v<version>\<platform>\desktopjob -cmd dso -machinelist numcores=704 -auto -NumDistributedVariations 8 -monitor -useelectronicsppe=1 -ng -batchoptions " '
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