Abaqus
Installed versions
| Resource | Version |
|---|---|
| Dardel/cpe23.12 | 2025, 2024, 2021, 2019 |
General information
Abaqus is a commercial software package for finite element analysis. The Abaqus product suite consists of three core products: Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit and Abaqus/CAE. Abaqus/Standard is a general-purpose solver using a traditional implicit integration scheme to solve finite element analyses. Abaqus/Explicit uses an explicit integration scheme to solve highly nonlinear transient dynamic and quasi-static analyses. Abaqus/CAE provides an integrated modelling (preprocessing) and visualization (postprocessing) environment for the analysis products. Abaqus also provides a good collection of multiphysics capabilities, such as coupled acoustic-structural, piezoelectric, and structural-pore capabilities, making it attractive for production-level simulations where multiple fields need to be coupled. Abaqus was initially designed to address non-linear physical behavior; as a result, the package has an extensive range of material models. Its elastomeric (rubberlike) material capabilities are particularly noteworthy.
For more details, look at SIMULIA's web page: http://www.simulia.com/
How to use
module load abaqus
Note
Please note that the PDC module needs to be loaded before loading the abaqus module
Submitting an Abaqus job on Dardel
A script for running Abaqus on Dardel is shown below.
#!/bin/bash
# The -l above is required to get the full environment with modules
# Set name of the job
#SBATCH -J my_job
# set the job account
#SBATCH -A <your allocation>
# 10 hours wall-clock time will be given to this job
#SBATCH -t 10:00:00
# Set the partition for your job.
#SBATCH -p <partition>
# Number of nodes
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -e error_file.e%J
#SBATCH -o output_file.o%J
# load module abaqus v2019
module load PDC
module load abaqus/2019
# please run the following line before submitting your job and set
# 'abaquslm_license_file' environment variable to point to a license server
# cp /pdc/software/21.11/other/abaqus/abaqus_v6.env .
# The input file
inputFile=your_input_file
# Run abaqus on 64 cores
abaqus job=$inputFile cpus=64 mp_mode=threads interactive
Note that this script does not include all the arguments that you can supply to Abaqus, but you should add/modify the script to suit your needs.
You can copy this script to a directory of choice at PDC and save it as abaqus_run.sh for example.
sbatch abaqus_run.sh
Note
The script above works for running Abaqus only on a single node containing 128 cores. Contact PDC support if you need to run on more than one node. You might be asked for proof of scaling for more than 128 cores.
The Abaqus GUI can be launched throgh an interactive session using Thinlinc or X11 forwarding, using the command abaqus cae -mesa, after loading the abaqus (and PDC) module.
Note
Please note that launching the GUI for abaqus can take a few minutes (sometimesas long as 7-12 minutes), and therefore, it is recommended not to run simulations through the GUI. The GUI can instead be used for quick visualization of results, etc. To run the simulation cases, please follow the batch job submission procedure described above