How to access the software

This module can be loaded directly:

module load STAR-CCM+/18.06.008

Available Simcenter STAR-CCM+ versions can be listed with module spider STAR-CCM+. Specifying a version will list the needed modules: module spider STAR-CCM+/17.06.008

Example Batch Script

Parallel Job (MPI):

#!/usr/bin/zsh

### Job name
#SBATCH --job-name=STARCCM

### File/Path where output will be written to, %J is the job id
#SBATCH --output=STARCCM.%J

### Request the time you need for execution. The full format is D-HH:MM:SS
### You must at least specify minutes or days and hours and may add or
### leave out any other parameters
#SBATCH --time=80

#### Request the memory you need for your job. You can specify this
### in either MB (1024M) or GB (4G).
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2600M

#### Specify the number of processors to use *per compute node*
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=4

#### Specify the number of compute nodes (= individual servers)
#### to use for the batch job. 
#SBATCH --nodes=1

### load modules
module load STAR-CCM+/18.06.008

### Change to the work directory, if needed
#cd "$WORK/workdirectory"

### You need to set the LM_PROJECT environment variable to the PoD-key of your institute
export LM_PROJECT=<PoD-key>

### You need to specify the desired license server here
export CDLMD_LICENSE_FILE=<Lic Server>

### start non-interactive batch job
starccm+ -bs slurm -mpi intel -xsystemucx -rsh ssh -power starccmfile.sim