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:
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 > , then select in the navigation pane.)
Download the applicable file:
OS Select Product File Downloaded Rocky Linux 8.10 for Ansys by CIQ, CentOS 7 hps-evaluator (Centos7) rep-evaluator-centos7.tgz CentOS 8 or later, Ubuntu (versions other than 20.04) hps-evaluator (default) rep-evaluator-default.tgz Ubuntu 20.04 hps-evaluator (unbuntu20_04) rep-evaluator-ubuntu20_04.tgz Use the gunzip command to unpack the tgz file.
gunzip <filename>.tgz
Use tar -xvf to extract the contents of the tar file.
tar -xvf <filename>.tar