Queue Submission

Queue submission uses a preconfigured queue to distribute a simulation execution across multiple host processors on an Abaqus Simulation Engine cluster in an efficient manner.

The following queue types can be used:

  • HPC (on Windows platforms)
  • LSF (on Linux platforms)

This manual contains information about installing and configuring the Abaqus Simulation Engine on an existing queue; setup of the queue itself is not covered.

Related Topics
Remote Execution
Installing and Configuring the Abaqus Simulation Engine
Configuring Queues

To submit a simulation to a queue, you must specify a submission host (see Submission hosts) that has access to a predefined compute cluster queue. When configuring the execution on the client, you specify the submission host name and the number of processors to use when performing the simulation. The submission host uses this information to pass a request to a job scheduler; the job scheduler determines which resources within the cluster are available and distributes the simulation to those resources.

Important: For simulations that involve multiple passes, each pass is submitted sequentially to the job scheduler.

The Abaqus Simulation Engine must be available to all hosts within the cluster, and the cluster must be homogeneous (i.e., all the execution hosts are the same platform). The submission host must be configured to accept simulations from the execution controller and pass them to the appropriate queue. This configuration is explained in Configuring Queues.