HFSS15: Integration with Microsoft Windows® HPC Scheduler

The Windows HPC scheduler is only supported on Windows. Jobs may be submitted in any of the following ways [unchanged from R14]:

• Using Windows HPC specific GUI from the Ansoft Desktop

• Using the Windows HPC GUIs from Microsoft: Job Manager or Cluster Manager

• Using the Windows HPC command line tools (job, etc.)

The R14.5 release has been tested with the following versions of Windows HPC:

• Windows HPC Server 2008

• Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

General Guidelines for Submitting ANSYS EM Jobs

A Job submitted to Windows HPC Cluster is defined by Job properties, Task List and Task properties. Priority, resource requirements, node preferences, etc. come from Job properties. In the case of Ansoft jobs, Task List consists of a single task. Properties of this task specify command line that runs Ansoft Desktop in non-graphical mode to perform analysis of an Ansoft project.

ANSYS EM Project File and Project Directory for use with Windows HPC Scheduler

Ansoft tools write their results to a subdirectory of the directory containing the ANSYS EM project file. The Project Directory (the directory containing the project file) must be accessible to all of the cluster hosts that may run ANSYS EM jobs. The user account for the job must have permission to read the project directory, and to create and modify files and subdirectories of this directory. The pathname of the project file must be accessible to all cluster hosts using the same path name, which is generally expressed as a UNC pathname.

Example:

The project file is on the user’s workstation (with hostname user1_PC) in directory C:user1projectsnewproject1.hfss, and the directory C:user1projects is shared with sharename projects.

Correct

When submitting the job, you should use the following pathname to specify the project file:

\user1_PCprojectsnewproject1.hfss

Incorrect

If a local pathname is used, the cluster hosts will not be able to find the user’s project on the workstation

user1_PC: ' C:user1projectsnewproject1.hfss '