You can use Remote Solve Manager (RSM) as a serial or parallel solution for Mechanical APDL jobs. If your RSM configuration directory contains configurations for a cluster or a Cloud portal, you can access cluster/portal queues that act as a parallel solution option.
Note: Mechanical APDL has the following limitations when used with Remote Solve Manager:
Reconnect does not work after moving a project to another machine.
Only one copy of a saved project that is in the pending state can reconnect successfully.
You must manually save a project after a reconnect.
Reference files must be in the same directory as the Ansys input file.
Restarts of solves to a cluster are not supported from Workbench.
In the Solution Process pane:
Configure your remote solution settings in Remote Solve Manager. For more information see RSM Configuration in the Remote Solve Manager User's Guide.
In Workbench, right-click the Solution cell and select Properties.
In the Solution Process settings, set the Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager.
Select a RSM Queue.
Set the Execution Mode to either Serial or Parallel.
Set the number of Utilized cores. For a serial solution, select
1; for a parallel solution, specify the number of partitions.You should have at least 100,000 elements or nodes per partition to compensate for the overhead associated with the partition. The cluster job scheduler automatically controls where the partitions are solved.
When the Mechanical APDL job is submitted to RSM, some options in the Properties pane (Processors, Distributed, MPI Type, Machine List, and Custom Executable Path) become read-only and their values are ignored.
Note: If Download Distributed Files is checked, all files involved in a distributed solve are downloaded.