{"id":163877,"date":"2021-11-11T00:42:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/lumerical-python-api-doesnt-use-the-full-capacity-of-the-assigned-cpu-in-hpc\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T06:32:18","slug":"lumerical-python-api-doesnt-use-the-full-capacity-of-the-assigned-cpu-in-hpc","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/lumerical-python-api-doesnt-use-the-full-capacity-of-the-assigned-cpu-in-hpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumerical Python API doesn&#8217;t Use the full capacity of the assigned CPU in HPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hi Lumerical Team<\/p>\n<p>I tried to run Lumerical python API on HPC. The process is: <\/p>\n<p>Running Python on HPC &#8211;&gt; Python creates pattern&#8211;&gt; Lumerical python API read the pattern and create simulation file through .lsf script &#8212;-&gt; Running created simulation file on HPC &#8212;&gt; Python read the results. <\/p>\n<p>For this process, we have assigned 4 nodes with 24 CPUs and 24 microprocessors to the job which are 96 microprocessors and CPUs in total. However, while running the simulation, it will only use 8 microprocessors which results in a long simulation time. Also, during this process, only one &quot;lum_fdtd_solve&quot; will be occupied. <\/p>\n<p>For the other case where we create our simulation file on a local desktop and just use the lum_fdtd_solve to solve the simulation, it will use the whole assigned capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Could you help me with this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-163877","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-api","topic-tag-hpc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_view_count":["296"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1014"],"_bbp_subscription":["234920"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["163877"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_engagement":["4274","26531"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["12"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["197385"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["197385"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-11-17 06:32:18"]},"test":"debin"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/163877","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\/163877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}