To setup and run on an HPC Linux cluster

The following is an example workflow that you might follow to create your studies, run them on an HPC Linux cluster with Portable Batch System (PBS) management, and finally review the results on Windows.

Important: The Simulation Compute Manager (SCM) can only have one incidence running at a time on a given node, because it runs through specific TCP ports to communicate between processes and across nodes. See Opening firewall ports to for more information. To launch a study that requires the SCM to run, request entire nodes to prevent multiple users from running their studies on the same node.

  1. Create and save your study file (.sdy) in Synergy (Windows) using all the appropriate settings for your analysis.
  2. Modify your template script file, e.g. example.pbs, to specify the resources required and the study file to run.
  3. Transfer the .sdy file and the .pbs file to a folder on the Linux machine (primary execution node) via sftp, or other mechanism provided by your system administrator. A program like WinScp is often used.
  4. Submit the job to your system via a terminal, using a single command such as qsub mystudy.pbs
  5. When the job has finished and results have been transferred back to the Windows client machine, import the results into Synergy.
Parent page: example.pbs script for PBS client systems