Setting Up Evaluators for a Traditional HPC Environment

When deploying the Autoscaling Service for Slurm, LSF, PBS, or UGE clusters, you must place the evaluator executable in a file share that all cluster nodes can access. You do not need to start the evaluator as it will be started by the Autoscaling Service.

On the machine with shared storage:

  1. Go the Ansys Customer Portal and select Downloads > HPC Platform Services.

  2. Download the applicable file:

    OSRequired file
    CentOS 7rep-evaluator-centos7.tgz
    CentOS 8 or later, Ubunturep-evaluator-default.tgz

  3. Unzip the tgz file.

  4. Unzip the tar file.