Choosing Execution Stations and Other Options

You can choose where to execute the different components of your experiment as well as performance options.

You can choose the execution station for the process activity corresponding to each component of the experiment.

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About Execution Options
  1. From the Execution section of the action bar, click Execution Options .
  2. Specify the following global options:
    OptionDescription
    Run Time Limit Maximum amount of time (in seconds) allowed to run this experiment. This option prevents the experiment from running indefinitely. It applies only to an on-premises LSF DRM system.
    Cleanup Specifies when to delete files from the working directory. You might sometimes want to keep these files for archiving or troubleshooting.
    On the cloud only: The Total Cost Estimate shows the estimated number of simulation licensing tokens or credits required for the experiment.
  3. Optional: To run all of the experiment components on your computer, select Click to apply {localhost} to all activities.

    If you do not already have the 3DOrchestrate Station software installed on your computer, select the Station Launcher from the Compass before you run the experiment.

  4. For the Cosimulation Master executable and for each experiment component, select the following options:
    OptionDescription
    Location

    Type of distributed resource management system used by the 3DOrchestrate execution system.

    If your system administrator has configured your on-premises 3DOrchestrate system with an LSF system, select LSF. If not, select Built-in.

    Station Name

    3DOrchestrate Station on which to run this component. Ask your system administrator if particular stations are configured to run different simulation applications.

    CPUs*

    Number of CPUs (processor cores) to run a CFD fluid simulation component.

    For Abaqus/CAE .3dfmu components, the maximum number of execution CPUs is 64.

    Cost Estimate*

    Estimated number of simulation licensing tokens consumed by this component.

    This estimate is not available for an Abaqus/CAE .3dfmu file.

    * CPUs and Cost Estimate are available only for newly published physics simulation components. They are not available for Abaqus/CAE .3dfmu components.

    See Configuring the Affinities for more details about process execution options.