1.1. Overview of Fluent and LSF Integration

For more information, see the following sections:

 

1.1.1. Requirements

The versions of LSF 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.

 

1.1.2. Optional Requirements

  • The echkpnt.fluent and erestart.fluent binary files

    These files are available from Platform Computing or Ansys, Inc., and permit Fluent checkpointing and restarting from within LSF.

  • (For Linux) Hardware vendor-supplied MPI environment for network computing

 

1.1.3. Integration Components

The LSF components used by the Fluent integration are included in all versions of LSF packages that are able to be downloaded from IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1.0.