Changing license preferences for HFSS running on SLURM

- February 8, 2021 at 7:22 pm
  
  vatalogg
  Subscriber
  
  Hello everyone,
  
  I am trying to run an HFSS simulation on Scinet (https://www.scinethpc.ca/) that runs an SLURM scheduler. The version is 2020/R2. Licenses are provided by CMC.ca. Due to a recent update they moved to the Pro, Premium, Enterprise Licenses (the old "legacy" ones are not supported). So, they recommend to:
  a) Check the use PPE product licensing in the General>Desktop Configuration option
  b) Use Pool as the HPC License in the "HPC and Analysis Options".
  
  I have put these settings in the GUI (and they seem to be saved if I reopen it), but I submit the jobs through SLURM, So, I read that there should be some SBATCH options. Here is what I use:
- February 8, 2021 at 10:41 pm
  
  ANSYS_MMadore
  Ansys Employee
  
  The issue isn't the hpc licenses but the solver license which needs to be told to use the new PPE. You can add this to the command line: -UseElectronicsPPEnOr you can add this to the Options File.nDesktop/Settings/ProjectOptions/UsePPELicensing=1 nnThanks,nMattn
- February 8, 2021 at 11:34 pm
  
  vatalogg
  Subscriber
  
  Hello Matt nnThank you a lot. This solved the problem and simulations now work.nnBest regards,nVasilisn
- February 23, 2021 at 10:14 pm
  
  CMCsupport1
  Subscriber
  
  Hello, Mr. Madore, nAnother part of this issue was the licence server address: n License path: 6624@lmserver-6.cmc.canThis is no longer correct. Staff at SciNet (UToronto) fixed the script that pointed to the CMC Microsystems' Ansys server (Feb. 9th, 2021), replacing this older port@server address with the current port@server address. nAdding this to thank the SciNet staff members for their help.Regards,nCMC Microsystems Technical Support staffnn n

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