Run lumerical lsf files in parallel on a cluster

- September 29, 2023 at 5:52 pm
  
  N Vig
  Subscriber
  
  I am able to run lumerical simulations in parallel on a cluster using the fdtd-engine-ompi-lcl. I have a script to use the run simulation for some data analysis. The farfieldexact3d command takes too much time, and I want to know if I can also run lumerical scripts in parallel similarly, since whatever I try, the simulation itself is running in parallel, but the farfieldexact3d command is running on only 1 core, and is becoming a bottleneck in gathering data
- September 29, 2023 at 11:37 pm
  
  Guilin Sun
  Ansys Employee
  
  For farfieldexact3d, it can be multithreaded from the resource settings. If one wavelength requires long computation time then there is no parallel computation available, unfortunately.
- September 30, 2023 at 3:40 am
  
  N Vig
  Subscriber
  
  Unfortunately one wavelength needs long computation :( hence was hoping to parallelize it. Thanks for the reply.
- September 30, 2023 at 12:29 pm
  
  N Vig
  Subscriber
  
  Is there any other alternative/equivalent to farfieldexact3d in either Matlab or python?
- October 2, 2023 at 3:31 pm
  
  Guilin Sun
  Ansys Employee
  
  farfieldexact3d is Lumerical script commad. I do not think Matlab or python have similar functions.