Dynaform Job submitter 2014 user guide

2 USER INTERFACE After completing the installation of eta/DYNAFORM, the user can open Job Submitter in eta/DYNAFORM program group in Start menu.. The description of each button is as fo

Job Submitter User Guide Version 2014 R1

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Job Submitter User Guide

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION 1

2 USER INTERFACE 1

2.1 SOLVER 1

2.2 CONTROLPARAMETER 2

2.3 TOOLBAR 3

2.4 JOBLIST 4

2.5 SUBMITCOMMAND 6

2.6 CONFIGURATIONOPTION 6

2.7 CONFIGURATIONFILE 7

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1 INTRODUCTION

Thank you for using ETA products Job Submitter is developed by ETA and is provided to authorized users for free It can submit jobs in batch and run on Windows and any version of UNIX/Linux Job Submitter is multi-user single-tasked software, which means different users can only open one user interface The user can use the Job Submitter in eta/Dynaform, or open Job Submitter directly in eta/Dynaform program group It supports single stage and multiple stages analysis job, and it is supported to submit job to the solver of MPP version

Job Submitter 2014R1 supports the automatic positioning of tools in multiple stages analysis After the user toggles on the automatic positioning in the Positioning dialog box of the AutoSetup, Job Submitter will automatically position the tools In this way, it can not only reduce the travel distance of the tools, but also avoid the initial penetration between the tools and the blank

2 USER INTERFACE

After completing the installation of eta/DYNAFORM, the user can open Job Submitter in eta/DYNAFORM program group in Start menu The user interface is illustrated in Figure 1 The GUI of Job Submitter includes five parts: solver type, LS-DYNA control parameter, toolbar, job list and submit command

Figure 1 Main Interface of Job Submitter

2.1 SOLVER

Job Submitter supports multiple solvers, including LS-DYNA solver, UTILITYBATCH solver,

MSTEP solver and INCSolver Different solvers correspond to different job cards

LS-DYNA Solver: support single precision and double precision LS-DYNA solver Double

precision solver are used for gravity loading, springback analysis, springback compensation and hot forming

UTILITYBATCH: an ETA-developed solver used for trimming, piercing, lancing and annealing

process

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MSTEP Solver: it is used to estimate the blank size, calculate the trim line and perform

formability analysis

INCSolver: a specialty Dynamic Non-linear Transient Finite Element program, supporting sheet

metal forming applications

NOTE: Please specify the correct solver path, otherwise, the calculation result may not be obtained or may be wrong

2.2 CONTROL PARAMETER

Memory: Assign memory size for job with MB as its unit For explicit method, Auto option is

used to assign memory size automatically via LS-DYNA solver if the specified memory size cannot meet the needs of calculation If the user cannot allocate memory properly according to the model size, this option can avoid the abortion of calculation of LS-DYNA solver due to insufficient

memory For implicit method, Auto option is invalid, so the user can allocate adequate memory

according to the size of model It should be noted that the actual memory occupied is double of the specified memory when choosing double precision solver

No of CPUs: Specify the CPU number If SMP solver is used, the user can specify the CPU number which can be 1, 2, 4, 8 and etc It depends on the core number of CPU

Pause between Jobs: Specify interval between jobs When submitting jobs in batch, the user is allowed to set the pause between jobs, i.e the time interval between the current job and the next job

to be submitted

MPP Settings: After setting the MPP, the user can submit job to the solver of MPP version for calculation Clicking this button, the program will pop up the MPP Settings dialog box, as

illustrated in Figure 2 The user can submit job to the solver of MPP version when Use MPP is

toggled on The user is also allowed to allocate different core numbers of CPU for different Groups

Click Edit Host File button to open MPP configuration file to modify machine name Click Load

Host File button to load MPP configuration file Stop Running button is used to pause LS-DYNA

calculation for the user to enter interactive command When re-entering this dialog box, the program will read the configuration file and display it in the host and CPU list

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Figure 2 MPP Settings dialog box

2.3 TOOLBAR

Toolbar can speed up the operations of the user The description of each button is as follows:

Run PostProcessor

Allow the user to select the jobs in the job list to view the running result The user is allowed to open jobs that are running or have finished with PostProcessor

Delete Current Job

Allow the user to delete the jobs in the job list Select the job list to be deleted and click this button The program will pop up a confirmation dialog box and ask whether the user is to delete the selected jobs

Delete All Jobs

Allow the user to empty the job list Click this button and the program will pop up a confirmation dialog box and ask whether the user is to empty all the jobs in the job list

Move Up Current Job

Allow the user to move up the job in the job list

Move Down Current Job

Allow the user to move down the job in the job list

Allow the user to add LS-DYNA input files of *.dyn and *.k format to the job list Job Submitter allows the user to submit single stage and multiple stages LS-DYNA jobs

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Allow the user to add LS-DYNA restart job to the current list After clicking this button, the program will pop up a dialog box, as illustrated in Figure 3 Job Submitter supports three restart analysis types: Simple Restart, Small Restart and Full Restart For Simple Restart, the user only needs to specify restart file, i.e D3DUMP file For Small Restart, the user needs to specify restart file and restart input file, i.e D3DUMP file and DYN file (K file) It is not recommended that the working directory of Full Restart analysis be same with the one of the previous analysis

Figure 3 Select restart job dialog box

Allow the user to add MSTEP files of *.dat format to the job list

Add INC Job (Ctrl+I)

Allows the user to add INC files of *.fin format to the job list

Allow the user to submit the job in the job list to the corresponding solver for calculation

Add a Group

Allow the user to add one or multiple groups to manage job list easily If there are multiple jobs of several users on the calculation server, the user can add his jobs to one group The default group names are GROUP1, GROUP2 and GROUP3, etc

Delete Current Group

Allow the user to delete the current group Once the current group is deleted, all the job lists in this group are deleted at the same time When deleting groups, the program will pop up a confirmation dialog box

Rename Current Group

The user can rename the different groups with specific meanings to facilitate the management of jobs

2.4 JOB LIST

All the jobs added by the user will be shown in the list The list includes the following information:

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Job Name

After adding the job, the name of the current file will be shown in the list

In Folder

After adding the job, the path of the current file will be shown in the list

Solver

The user can select the solver to solve the current job The solver list filters for different job types correspondingly

MStages

The MStage indicates that the current job is multiple stages job Non-multiple stages job is displayed as No and the multiple stages job is displayed as Yes

The user can click Yes to open the Multiple Stages dialog box, as illustrated in Figure 4 The user can set solver type, allocate memory and view the status information and message of the multiple stages job Click any position in a row, and the program will display the command submitted by this stage in the command line

Figure 4 Multiple Stages dialog box

Memory

The memory size allocated for the current job The unit is MB The user can re-allocate memory for the job that is not submitted in the queue

Status

The program use different colors and labels to identify different job status The job status includes: Queued, Running, Finished and Aborted

Figure 5 Job Status

Message

After submitting the job, the user can click the View button to open the message file for analysis calculation

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Summary

After finishing the job, the user can click the View button to view the job result summary information The user can view the information about the element, node number and CPU time for the normally terminated jobs The user can find out the wrong information as for the abnormally- terminated jobs

IForce

Allow the user to decide whether to output interface force After adding the job, the user can select

Yes or No to decide whether to output interface force It should be noted that the user must select

whether to output the contact interface force before submitting

Other Param

Allow the user to enter the command parameters of LS-DYNA and different parameters are separate by a space For example, NCPU=4 D=NODUMP

2.5 SUBMIT COMMAND

When the user clicks a row in the job list, the program will prompt the user with the submitting command of the current job at the bottom of the dialog box The memory unit is MW

2.6 CONFIGURATION OPTION

Click the button on the graphical interface to open the Configuration dialog box, as illustrated in Figure 6

Language

The user is allowed to select the interface language, and both simplified Chinese and English are supported Job Submittor needs to be restarted to switch the language

Text Editor

Allow the user to open the Editor used for text file under Windows

Output d3dump

Allow the user to select whether to output re-startup file d3dump or not

Delete adaptdmp

Allow the user to select whether to delete the self-adaptive file after the task is calculated

Figure 6 Cofiguration dialog box

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2.7 CONFIGURATION FILE

The configuration file of Job Submitter is located in the user directory For example, C:\ Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\ETA\Job Submitter 2014 R1 (XP) and C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\ETA\Job Submitter 2014 R1 (Win7) Among which, js_init.configis the main configuration file of Job Submitter, js_host.txt is the configuration file of LS-DYNA/MPP and js_groups.txt is the group information of Job Submitter respectively Generally, it

is not recommended for the user to modify the configuration file directly The user can modify the related parameters through the graphical interfaces The configuration file will be updated automatically when the user exits Job Submitter