For more information, see the following sections:
The versions of Altair Grid Engine software that are supported with Fluent are listed with the other supported job schedulers and queuing systems posted on the Platform Support section of the Ansys Website.
Fluent 2024 R2
Important: Running Fluent under SGE is not supported on Windows.
Fluent and SGE communicate with each other through checkpointing and migration commands. To checkpoint, or save, Fluent simulations, SGE uses an executable file called ckpt_command.fluent. To migrate Fluent simulations to another machine, SGE uses another executable file called migr_command.fluent.
Fluent creates a checkpointing subdirectory, identified by the job ID. The checkpointing directory contains files related only to the submitted job.
When a Fluent simulation must be checkpointed, SGE calls
a command that creates a checkpoint trigger file (check) in the job subdirectory, which causes Fluent to checkpoint
and continue running. If the job must be migrated, because of a machine
crash or for some other reason, a different trigger file (exit) is created which causes Fluent to checkpoint
and exit.
For Fluent 2024 R2, SGE-related files are installed by default in
path/ansys_inc/v242/fluent/fluent24.2.0/addons/sge,
where path is the Fluent installation
directory. The files include the following:
ckpt_command.fluent
migr_command.fluent
sge_request
kill-fluent
sample_ckpt_obj
sample_pe
These files are described in the sections that follow.