Installation for Linux

Install Simulation Composite Analysis for Abaqus or MSC Nastran on a machine running a Linux operating system. For Abaqus this includes Linux clusters.

Simulation Composite Analysis is supported for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 5 and 6. Customers have also had success using Simulation Composite Analysis with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11. It is assumed you have a basic knowledge of Linux operations and using the Linux shell. To install you will probably need root privileges.

The Simulation Composite Analysis install is delivered via a .tar.gz file. The Installation Procedure section below explains how to install the product.

Only Simulation Composite Analysis for Abaqus or MSC Nastran is supported for Linux operating systems and only network licensing can be used on Linux. Standalone licensing is not available. Therefore, a valid Autodesk network license server is required to install and execute Simulation Composite Analysis on Linux.

Installation Procedure

To begin installation, decompress and extract the contents of the .tar.gz file. Within the extracted directory, the following important setup files and directories can be found:

• install.sh - This is the install shell script you modify and run to install Simulation Composite Analysis. This script will invoke the setup executable file.
• README - This text file provides an explanation of how to use install.sh. The information contained within this file is also presented here.
• setup - This is the executable invoked by install.sh. This program performs all of the work to create and copy the necessary files onto the target machine to run Simulation Composite Analysis.
• verify.inp - This is an Abaqus/Standard input file that can be run after installation to verify Simulation Composite Analysis was installed correctly for Abaqus. This file is not installed with Simulation Composite Analysis.

To install Simulation Composite Analysis, execute install.sh. However, prior to initiating the install, open install.sh in a text editor and modify the appropriate environment variables and save the file. The environment variables are described below:

• ADSDIR - This variable sets the Autodesk directory. Simulation Composite Analysis 2015.1 will be installed to the asca2015.1 directory within ADSDIR. If the asca2015.1 sub directory does not exist it will be created.
• MATDIR - Set this variable to the desired materials directory. Use a value of DEFAULT to use the default materials directory: ASCADIR\Materials.

  Important: If Simulation Composite Analysis is to be run on a Linux cluster, this directory must be a shared directory among all of the nodes (MATDIR must exist on every node in the analysis).

• LICTYPE - Set to SINGLE or TRIPLE for a single or triple license server respectively.
• PORT_NUMBER - Set to the port number used for floating licenses. This variable is ignored if LICTYPE=NODE.
• PRIMARY_SERVER - Set to the name or IP address of the primary server machine.
• SECONDARY_SERVER - Set to the name or IP address of the secondary server machine. This variable is ignored if LICTYPE=SINGLE
• TERTIARY_SERVER - Set to the name or IP address of the tertiary server machine. This variable is ignored if LICTYPE=SINGLE
• THINCLIENT - Default is THINCLIENT=NO. Change it to THINCLIENT=YES if at least one of the following is true:
  1. You are installing to a network share for thin client execution
  2. You do not have root privileges
  If you set THINCLIENT=YES, the installer will set LICENSE_THIN_CLIENT equal to 1 in the global asca.env file.

Once install.sh has been modified appropriately, save the file and execute it. Root privileges will probably be required to install Simulation Composite Analysis.

If any errors occur during installation, view the contents of the resulting .log file (in the same directory as install.sh) to see more details about the error.

Pointing Abaqus to Simulation Composite Analysis

The Simulation Composite Analysis installation for Linux does not update the usub_lib_dir variable in the abaqus_v6.env file which informs Abaqus where to find the Simulation Composite Analysis installation. It is common for Linux machines to be shared by multiple users, therefore it is recommended that this process be done by the user executing the analysis. Please see Section 3.2.2 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual for information on the abaqus_v6.env file and how to appropriately set usub_lib_dir. The value of usub_lib_dir depends on the target Abaqus version. For Abaqus 6.11 and previous versions, it is set as follows:

usub_lib_dir = ‘ADSDIR/asca2015.1/bin/abaqus611’

and for Abaqus 6.12:

usub_lib_dir = ‘ADSDIR/asca2015.1/bin/abaqus’

where ADSDIR is the value of the environment variable set during installation.