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How to use LS-DYNA at the FSUHPC

LS-DYNA is a general purpose transient dynamic finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems. See the LS-DYNA homepage for more information.

  • The LS-DYNA license file is on /usr/local/etc/LSTC_FILE.txt
  • The LS-DYNA package must be run with the hpmpi package which is licensed for use only with ls-dyna.  The hpmpi package is on /opt/hpmpi/.  The package should be run with the -IBV flags to insure that it used the Infiniband Fabric for communications.
  • The ls-dyna executable is on /opt/lsdyna:
    double precision version 
    mpp971_d_7600.2.1224_PGI_linux86-64_hpmpi
    single precision version 
    mpp971_s_7600.2.1224_PGI_linux86-64_hpmpi

The following code is an example MOAB job for 64 nodes:

#!/bin/bash

#MOAB -l nodes=64
#MOAB -j oe

cat $PBS_NODEFILE
export  LSTC_FILE=/usr/local/etc/LSTC_FILE.txt
cd /home/jmcdon/scratch/3cars64
/opt/hpmpi/bin/mpirun  -np 64 -IBV -hostfile $PBS_NODEFILE \
/opt/lsdyna/mpp971_d_7600.2.1224_PGI_linux86-64_hpmpi\
 i=3cars_shell2_150ms.k ncpu=64 memory=72571043