HFSS15: Example -Batchsolve with -Machinelist (Linux)

In this example, we run a batch HFSS analysis of project file project2.hfss, which contains an HFSS-IE design. We have four identical hosts host1,host2, host3, and host4 for analysis, and each host has 4 cores. We do not use multiprocessing for the distributed analysis, so NumberOfProcessorsDistributed=1. As each host has four cores, we specify multiprocessing using 4 threads for the non-distributed part of the analysis, so NumberOfProcessors=4. Because we do not use multiprocessing for the distributed analysis, we will run four distributed COM engines on each host, with a singe core available for each engine. As in Example 1, we specify a desired RAM limit of 6 GB and a maximum RAM limit of 8 GB for this analysis. The RAM limits are specified in KB, so the desired RAM limit is 6291456 KB, and the maximum RAM limit is 8388608 KB.

Here is a sample command line for this analysis, where the project file /home/jsmith/projects/project2.hfss is located in a shared directory:

hfss -BatchSolve -Distributed
-Machinelist file=/home/jsmith/hosts/list2
-batchoptions "HFSS-IE/Preferences/MemLimitHard=8388608
HFSS-IE/Preferences/MemLimitSoft=6291456
HFSS-IE/Preferences/NumberOfProcessors=4
HFSS-IE/Preferences/NumberOfProcessorsDistributed=1"
/home/jsmith/projects/project2.hfss

For this example, the hostnames are in the text file /home/jsmith/hosts/list2. Here is the file contents:

host1

host1

host1

host1

host2

host2

host2

host2

host3

host3

host3

host3

host4

host4

host4

host4