{"id":159346,"date":"2021-06-10T09:26:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-gpu-acceleration\/"},"modified":"2021-06-16T07:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T07:25:27","slug":"ansys-mechanical-gpu-acceleration","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-gpu-acceleration\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSYS Mechanical GPU Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to set up GPU acceleration for my ANSYS Mechanical APDL scripts on the HPC in my university.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to run a GPU accelerated simulation in interactive GUI mode and it gave me this error message.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code codeBlock\" spellcheck=\"false\"> *** ERROR ***                           CP =       6.139   TIME= 09:41:23\n The capability GPU was either not ordered with this ANSYS installation\n or the appropriate product was not selected for this session.\n  Contact your ANSYS support person for more information.\n<\/pre>\n<p>In batch mode I get a more cryptic error message:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code codeBlock\" spellcheck=\"false\">** FATAL ***                           CP =       1.771   TIME= 10:13:10\nThere was an error while initializing the GPU library.  Error code = 1.\n  Please check your Mechanical APDL installation.  In many cases,\nsimply rebooting your machine may help get past this error.\n<\/pre>\n<p>I am using ansys 2020 R2<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any pointers?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I had contacted the HPC staff at the university and this is the response I got from them:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ansys were not able to answer my query but have suggested that you sign up to their support forum instead&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Kevin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-159346","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-gpu-acceleration","topic-tag-hpc","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-mechanical-apdl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_view_count":["13303"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1722"],"_bbp_subscription":["243521"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["159346"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["68381","157474","169096"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["181698"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["181698"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-06-16 07:25:27"]},"test":"kevjose"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}