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Recently, due to business reasons, I have been collaborating with a certain supercomputing supplier, and during the process, there were issues related to deploying Abaqus software. Although the platform’s customer service provided an installation plan, for someone like me who loves tinkering, I wouldn’t rest until I solved it myself, and I could also take the opportunity to write an article about it.

1. Platform Configuration

I won’t go into which platform it is, anyway, they didn’t pay me for advertising.

1. Define parameters

Custom parameters in ANSA are relatively simple. Right-click in the input box to open the menu and select List variables, then create a new variable in the A_PARAMETERs dialog and assign a name to that variable.

For example, here the material parameter is assigned as a custom parameter:

1. Right-click to select the list variables.

   

Recently, a problem was discovered that Abaqus and CFX cannot perform calculations on Windows shared folders mounted on Linux. Linux is deployed on a virtual machine. Although there will be no error when starting the calculation program on the local path of the virtual machine, it will cause the virtual disk to occupy more space and have a certain impact on the read and write efficiency.

1. SMB version problem

1.1 SMBv3

When using cifs to mount a shared folder before, I did not pay close attention to the version of the SMB protocol¹. The following command line does not specify the protocol version: