High Performance Clusters

This guide is intended to explain how best to use Autodesk Moldflow Insight on a Linux High-Performance Cluster (HPC).

In this guide it is assumed that you have, in the cluster, a number of possibly identical hosts called nodes. Each node has its own address, and each runs the same, or almost the same, version of Linux. Each node mounts a read-only program area, which is common to all nodes, and which has a local read-write scratch area, which is specific to that node. The cluster is firewalled from outside communication, with the exception of outgoing licensing (ADLM) requests and incoming file transfer requests. Nodes within the cluster either are not firewalled, or can have ports opened on demand.

Note: This guide shows how to operate within a highly restrictive configuration. It is not required for a node to have the above characteristics. You may be able to take shortcuts if your cluster has a more permissive configuration.

Preparing a Linux High-Performance Cluster for running Insight

Each node needs read access to Autodesk Moldflow Insight's Thin Client installation. You can either run the Thin Client installer on each node, or you can have your system administrator run it once on a shared disk and export it read-only for mounting on each node.

In the remaining steps, the installation directory will be referred to as $INSTALLATION. Substitute this with the actual directory that you use.