Comsol on Biowulf
Comsol Multiphysics (previously named Femlab) is a modeling package for the simulation of any physical process you can describe with partial differential equations (PDEs). It features state-of-the-art solvers that address complex problems quickly and accurately, while its intuitive structure is designed to provide ease of use and flexibility.
Documentation
Important Notes
- Module Name: Comsol (see the modules page for more information)
- Interactive Only
An X-Windows connection is required.
Interactive job
Interactive jobs should be used for debugging, graphics, or applications that cannot be run as batch jobs.
Allocate an interactive session and run the program.
Sample session (user input in bold):
[user@biowulf]$ sinteractive --constraint=comsol --cpus-per-task=14 --mem=20g salloc.exe: Pending job allocation 46116226 salloc.exe: job 46116226 queued and waiting for resources salloc.exe: job 46116226 has been allocated resources salloc.exe: Granted job allocation 46116226 salloc.exe: Waiting for resource configuration salloc.exe: Nodes cn2150 are ready for job [user@cn2150 ~]$ module load Comsol [user@cn2150 ~]$ comsol [user@cn2150 ~]$ exit salloc.exe: Relinquishing job allocation 46116226 [user@biowulf ~]$
You should see the Comsol Desktop image as below:
