Instructions for installing or running ABAQUS
Instructions for running ABAQUS via remote desktop connection (the recommended method)
- Please go to the course Canvas site and follow the link to instructions on the main page. Note that this access is available only to those enrolled in the class
Instructions for requesting access ABAQUS and the instructional research license (if you want to install only)
- Follow this link and fill out the form. Note that although there is a button for Mac there is no mac version of ABAQUS. In the part of the form where it asks what system you will run on select the 'other' option and in the text field enter 'for use on personal machine for class EN2340.' You will receive instructions for the download by email.
Instructions for installing ABAQUS with user subroutines on a 64-bit Windows 10 PC.
1. Download Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition (you can do the web install with all defaults). Do not install more recent versions of VS - ABAQUS will not link with them correctly.
2. Get the Intel Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition (Student license - free) from the intel website (you have to fill out a form and wait for an email with the license key). Install with all the default settings.
3. Install ABAQUS 2017 (you will need to request access to ABAQUS here, and once you get the codes follow instructions provided with software download). Note that ABAQUS does not appear to install correctly on some windows builds - you will get a lot of error messages during installation - but it appears to run OK after installation. A workaround is to install it on Windows 10 build 1607 or prior initially, then upgrade to a later Windows 10 build. This is not an ideal situation, and we don't know if or when it will be fixed.
4. Download this script to start abaqus. Save it as abaqus_usersub with a .bat extension in the working directory for ABAQUS (the directory where you will store ABAQUS input and output files). It is likely that you may need to edit the script and change the file path for your computer.
5. To run ABAQUS with user subroutines, open the ABAQUS command prompt, then type
abaqus_usersub job=inputfilename user=fortransourcefile (double)
in the command window. The (double) is needed only if you are running ABAQUS explicit (with a double precision user subroutine)
Instructions for requesting a CCV account and running ABAQUS on CCV
1.) Request an account on CCV. https://brown.edu/cis/forms/CCV/newuseraccount.php
2.) If you do not already have an account on the instructional compuer facility, apply for School of Engineering account here. An account should have been created for you automatically if you registered for the class.
3.) Contact "[email protected]" and request access to the ABAQUS license on CCV. Explain that you will be using it for EN2340.
After the account and license is setup, to access CCV from WINDOWS machine one needs PUTTY and xwin32.
1.) xwin32 is available at https://www.starnet.com/xwin32/ - you can download the trial version and enter the Brown license key at a later date to maintain functionality
2.) putty.exe can be downloaded from http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
3.) Some help can be found at the link below to configure exceed and putty
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/lss/documentation/exceed/PuTTY/Exceed%20With%20PuTTY.html => while following the guidelines in the link above replace the host name "muser.brad.ac.uk" with "ssh.ccv.brown.edu"
4.) Everything is set. Start exceed on the local windows machine then run putty.exe.
5.) When prompted enter your username and password.
7.) After logging in to ccv, type
a.) module load abaqus <enter>
b.) module load gcc <enter>
c.) abaqus cae <enter>
If there is a resource error start ABAQUS with mesa option i.e. abaqus cae -mesa
A script to run the job in batch mode is attached here.
Some useful commands for running jobs in batch mode on ccv can be found here