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. On the Ansys Customer Portal site, go to the Downloads: Platform Components page.

    (To navigate to this page on the Ansys Customer Portal site, select Downloads > Current Release, then select Platform Components in the navigation pane.)

  2. Download the applicable file:

    OSSelect ProductFile Downloaded
    Rocky Linux 8.10 for Ansys by CIQ, CentOS 7hps-evaluator (Centos7)rep-evaluator-centos7.tgz
    CentOS 8 or later, Ubuntu (versions other than 20.04)hps-evaluator (default)rep-evaluator-default.tgz
    Ubuntu 20.04hps-evaluator (unbuntu20_04)rep-evaluator-ubuntu20_04.tgz
  3. Use the gunzip command to unpack the tgz file.

    gunzip <filename>.tgz
  4. Use tar -xvf to extract the contents of the tar file.

    tar -xvf <filename>.tar