LS-Dyna¶

LS-DYNA from software stack¶

LS-DYNA is now available as a part of 2022r2 software stack. To use it, you will need to load the following modules:

module load ls-dyna/13.0.1
module load 13.0.1/smp_d

and then in your submission script just call

srun ls-dyna

How to run your own LS-Dyna binaries¶

In order to run LS-Dyna on the DHPC the following steps should be undertaken.

1. Download the solver from the LSTC website

https://www.lstc.com/downloader/page.html

Version: Choose your preferred LS-Dyna version
Packaging: executable
Precision: Double or Single precision
OS: Linux
CPU: avx512
Compiler: ifort
Parallelism: MPP
MPI: Intel MPI
Chip: x86

2. Copy the solver executable to your /home/$USER

3. Add the licence environment variables to you .sbatch file

An example is given below.

#!/bin/sh 
# 
#BATCH --job-name="your_analysis_name" 
#SBATCH --partition=compute 
#SBATCH --time=00:05:00
#SBATCH --ntasks=8
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1 
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1GB
#SBATCH --account=research-<faculty>-<department>

module load 2022r2 
module load intel/oneapi-all 

export LSTC_LICENSE=network LSTC_LICENSE_SERVER=flexserv1.tudelft.nl 
LSTC_LICENSE_SERVER_PORT=27099 

export I_MPI_PMI_LIBRARY=/cm/shared/apps/slurm/current/lib64/libpmi2.so 

srun "/home/$USER/lsdyna/very_long_name_of_the_solver_executable" 
i="/scratch/$USER/input.k"

4. Submit the job

sbatch your submission script as usual.