Integration with Microsoft Windows® HPC Scheduler
The Windows HPC scheduler is only supported on Windows. Jobs may be submitted in any of the following ways:
- Using the Windows HPC GUIs from Microsoft: Job Manager or Cluster Manager
- Using the Windows HPC command line tools (job, etc.)
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Using the Desktop UI commands for Scheduler selection, job submission and job monitoring/control. You specify the Windows HPC Scheduler User Interface for Submit Job by clicking Tools > Job Management > Select Scheduler...
You can also select the Simulation tab of the ribbon, and click the Scheduler icon.
Select the scheduler from the drop-down menu on the Select Scheduler window. Once you select a scheduler, you can access the interface for job submission, monitoring and control.
See the Ansys Electromagnetics Suite Windows Installation Guide for additional information on supported schedulers.
General Guidelines for Submitting Ansys Electromagnetics Jobs
A job submitted to Windows HPC Cluster is defined by Job properties, Task List and Task properties. Priority, resource requirements, node preferences, etc. come from Job properties. In the case of Ansys Electromagnetics jobs, Task List consists of a single task. Properties of this task specify command line that runs Ansys Electromagnetics Desktop in non-graphical mode to perform analysis of an Ansys Electromagnetics project.
Specifying the Number of Compute Resource Units for HPC Jobs
Enter the number of tasks and total cores per machine.
Ansys Electromagnetics Project File and Project Directory for use with Windows HPC Scheduler
Ansys Electromagnetics Suite tools write their results to a subdirectory of the directory containing the Ansys Electromagnetics project file. The Project Directory (the directory containing the project file) must be accessible to all of the cluster hosts that may run Ansys Electromagnetics jobs. The user account for the job must have permission to read the project directory, and to create and modify files and subdirectories of this directory. The pathname of the project file must be accessible to all cluster hosts using the same path name, which is generally expressed as a UNC pathname.
Example:
The project file is on the user’s workstation (with hostname user1_PC) in directory C:\user1\projects\new\project1.aedt, and the directory C:\user1\projects is shared with sharename projects.
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When submitting the job, you should use the following pathname to specify the project file:
\\user1_PC\projects\new\project1.aedt
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If a local pathname is used, the cluster hosts will not be able to find the user’s project on the workstation
user1_PC: ' C:\user1\projects\new\project1.aedt'