Using Abaqus on the HPC System

To use ABAQUS on the HPC, you will need the following:

• Access to the HPC system (Contact HPC support if you need an account created).
• A connection to the HPC System.
• If you plan on using abaqus cae on the HPC system, you will require a graphical interface to the HPC system.  See Graphical Connection to the HPC System for information on how to do this.

Using the Abaqus CAE

For those who already have a HPC account, using a “graphical” connection, you should be able to start ABAQUS issuing the command:

module load abaqus/2025

abaqus cae -mesa

The “-mesa” flag option disables graphics hardware acceleration to resolve graphics incompatibility.

Solving a Abaqus job

To “solve” an Abaqus job on the HPC system, simply issue the following command:

abaqus job=<your abaqus input file>

This will submit a “HPC Job” to the system requesting the default resources (CPU’s = 1, Memory = 4gb).  If you wish to change the requested resources, simply issue the following command:

abaqus cpus=<value> memory=<memory value> job=<your abaqus input file>

As an example submission

abaqus cpus=4 memory=20 job=boltpipeflange_axi_solidgask

The above example would use 4CPU’s, 20GB of Memory and solve the boltpipeflange_axi_solidgask job.

Once you job has completed, you can use the CAE application to complete the “post”  processing process.