The interactive method of installing Ansys HPC Platform Services involves running a script to install prerequisites and running the HPS Installer programs (Root setup and User setup).
Note: By default, when you run the Root setup and User setup programs, you are interactively prompted for input. For a more automated installation requiring no user input, responses to prompts can be read from preconfigured answer files instead. If you wish to use answer files, ensure that the answer files are configured with the desired values before running the setup programs. See Configuring Answer Files for the HPS Installer to Use. If an input value is not specified in the answer file, the setup program will prompt you for that value.
Ensure that the machine on which you wish to deploy Ansys HPC Platform Core Services meets the minimum hardware requirements.
On the Ansys Customer Portal site, go to the Downloads: Platform Components page.
Download the customer-installer.tar.gz file.
Use the gunzip command to unpack the customer-installer.tar.gz file.
gunzip customer-installer.tgz
Use tar -xvf to extract the contents of the customer-installer.tar file.
tar -xvf customer-installer.tar
Change (cd) to the directory containing the unzipped installer files.
Install the prerequisites by running the install_prereqs.sh script.
As the root user, run the Root setup program.
python3 ansys/hps/installer/root_setup.py
For information on the steps performed by the Root setup program, see HPS Installer (Beta).
As the HPS administration user account (hpsadmin, or other), run the User setup program.
python3 ansys/hps/installer/user_setup.py
For information on the steps performed by the User setup program, see HPS Installer (Beta).