Submitting Design Points to Remote Solve Manager

To submit design points to Remote Solve Manager (RSM):

  1. To view the Design Point Update Process settings, right-click the Parameter Set bar and select Properties.

    If the Properties pane is already visible, click the Parameter Set bar to refresh the Properties pane with the design point settings.

  2. In the Properties pane, from the Update Option drop-down list, select Remote Solve Manager.

  3. Specify an available RSM Queue.

  4. From the Design Point Initialization drop-down list, select one of the following options:

    • Update From Current: Causes each design point to be initialized from the Current design point.

    • Update Design Points in Order: Causes each design point to be initialized from the previous design point.

  5. To update your geometry locally before submitting the design points to RSM, from the Pre-RSM Foreground Update drop-down list, select Geometry.

    Otherwise, leave the option as None.

  6. If you selected Geometry in the previous step, to retain the results from the geometry update, from the Retain Partial Update drop-down list select Geometry.

  7. For the Component Execution Mode property, select one of the following options:

    • Serial: All components participating in the update are run in serial mode.

    • Parallel: All components participating in the update that support this setting are run in parallel mode.

    Submitting a design point update to RSM is supported by the Solution (or Analysis) component update for the Mechanical APDL, Mechanical, Fluent, CFX and Polyflow solvers. These settings override any parallel or serial settings defined at the component level. When updating a component, system, or project, the Parameter Set properties for a design point update are ignored. The following product specific settings are overridden for a design point update in RSM:

    ProductIgnored Properties
    CFX-Solver Manager or CFX-Pre Solution cell

    • All settings under the Parallel Environment tab.

    • Run mode

    • All host information and partition weighting

    Fluent Solution cell

    • Use Job Scheduler

    • Run Parallel Version

    • Number of Processes

    • Use Shared Memory

    • Machine Specification

    • Machine List

    Note:  The following properties remain enabled in all situations, if set:

    • Interconnect

    • MPI Type

    Advanced section of a Mechanical Solve Process Setting

    • Distributed Solution (if possible)

    • Max number of utilized cores

    Mechanical APDL Analysis cell

    • Processors

    • Distributed

    • MPI Type

    • Machine list

    Polyflow Options accessed by Solution cell preferencesNumber of Processes

  8. In the Number of Jobs to be Created field, type the number of RSM jobs to create. The default is 1.

    Note:  License sharing only works within a job. If you create multiple jobs, you cannot share licenses across them, so we recommend creating multiple tasks within one job to take advantage of license sharing.

  9. In the Number of Tasks Per Job field, type the number of design point update tasks to run per RSM job. The default is 1.

    The numbers you enter in steps 8 and 9 divide the total number of design points you are updating into individual tasks, with each task running a separate Workbench session. Then the tasks are divided up into one or more RSM jobs.

    For example, you are updating 20 design points and request two RSM jobs and five tasks per job. Each job will contain five tasks, and each task will update two design points. A total of 10 Workbench sessions will be created.

  10. If you selected Parallel in step 6, in the Number of Cores Required Per Task field, type the number of cores to use on the cluster machine for each task. The default is 2.

    The total number of cores requested to run the entire update is calculated using the formula (Number of tasks * Number of Cores)+1. The additional core is for the head task, which is used to create all of the sub-tasks.

  11. For the Retained Design Point property, select one of the following options:

    • Update parameters (default): Only parameters are updated for retained design points. If a component is not needed to get the value of an output parameter, it is not updated.

    • Update full project: Full project is updated for retained design points. Use this setting if you want to generate reports, or other content, from components that do not produce output parameters.

  12. The Remote Job Status Check Interval in Seconds field sets the number of seconds between each query to RSM for the design point update job status. To increase or decrease this interval, enter the number of seconds into the field. The default is 20.

  13. To set upfront license checkouts, click Select Licenses. For more details, see Using Upfront License Checkouts for Design Point Updates.

  14. Save the project.

    If you are working in an archived project, you must save the project to a permanent location.

  15. Update the design points.

    The project is archived and submitted to a cluster using RSM. The remote data is retrieved periodically as the design point updates complete. Should a design point update fail, an error is reported to the Messages pane.