{"id":396174,"date":"2024-12-04T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/396174\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T00:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:54:03","slug":"396174","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/396174\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: GPU Acceleration for Inverse Design with Lumopt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;@&lt;span class=&#8221;bbp-author-name&#8221;&gt;partha.nakti,&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&#8221;bbp-author-name&#8221;&gt;Python API or Optimization (lumapi\/lumopt) requires a GUI connection and will checkout a GUI license. See <a href=\"https:\/\/optics.ansys.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360037824513-Python-API-overview\">this KB for more info<\/a>. GPU is only used when you run the simulation file (.fsp).&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&#8221;bbp-author-name&#8221;&gt;Are you able to open the Lumerical FDTD CAD\/IDE?&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;span class=\"bbp-author-name\"&gt;\/opt\/lumerical\/v232\/bin\/fdtd-solutions &amp;&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&#8221;bbp-author-name&#8221;&gt;How are you configuring your simulation and resources to use GPU when running the simulation?&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/optics.ansys.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/17518942465811-Getting-started-with-running-FDTD-on-GPU\">see KB for details<\/a>)&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&#8221;bbp-author-name&#8221;&gt;Which Linux distro and version are you on?&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;span class=\"bbp-author-name\"&gt;cat \/etc\/*release&lt;\/span&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&#8221;bbp-author-name&#8221;&gt;Which specific release of Lumerical 2023 R2 are you running?&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;span class=\"bbp-author-name\"&gt;\/opt\/lumerical\/v232\/bin\/fdtd-solutions -v &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span class=\"bbp-author-name\"&gt;\/opt\/lumerical\/v232\/bin\/fdtd-engine -v&lt;\/span&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&#8221;bbp-author-name&#8221;&gt;Looking forward to your reply. &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-396174","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"@partha.nakti,Python API or Optimization (lumapi\/lumopt) requires a GUI connection and will checkout a GUI license. 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