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[comiskeyp]

Hello,

I'd like to launch Fluent from my Windows workstation with the Windows Command Prompt and connect to a Linux HPC cluster with the Slurm scheduler. I can't find documention on how to achieve this, and the User's Manual (I'm using V24R2) does not discuss this as a possibility from what I can tell. Does anyone have a resource for what the Command Prompt options should be or know of an example?

I'm trying to do this because of an exlusivity issue when Fluent runs on a Linux HPC, by the way. Fluent will "lock" all available resources on a node even if it doesn't use them which makes scheduling a job on a shared HPC quite cumbersome. There's an undocumented command, "-scheduler_exclusive=0" which should fix this, but I can't even try it because I can't figure out how to launch Fluent with the command line connected to an HPC! I also don't know if that undocumented command is a Linux-only command, but that's something I'll figure out eventually I guess.

Thanks

[MangeshANSYS]

Hello

Here is a link to the command line documentation, please see the options starting with -scheduler
https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/public/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v251/en/flu_ug/flu_ug_startramp.html

[comiskeyp]

The options starting with -scheduler in the User's Guide are for when you're running the workstation with Linux, and they aren't applicable because my workstation is Windows. Do you know of a Windows command line -scheduler option?

Thanks