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Tecplot
Tecplot 360 is commercial software that may only be used by research workgroups that have purchased a license and are running a private license server. You must know the license server name and port number to use Tecplot.
To determine the available versions of Tecplot installed use
$ vpkg_versions tecplot Available versions in package (* = default version): [/opt/shared/valet/etc/tecplot.vpkg] tecplot TecPlot 360: A CFD visualization software tool that helps you quickly plot and animate your data 2012-r1 Version 2012, R1 2013-r1 Version 2013, R1 * 2013 (alias of 2013-r1) 2012 (alias of 2012-r1)
If your workgroup has purchased a Tecplot license, then the tecplot.lic
file containing the license server name and port number should be located in a shared workgroup directory such as $WORKDIR/sw/tecplot/licenses
. In the example tecplot.lic
below, lm.udel.edu
and port
would be replaced with your private license server name and port number.
HOST lm.udel.edu 0 port
Next install a tecplot
startup script in a shared workgroup directory such as $WORKDIR/sw/bin
which will load the current default version of tecplot denoted by the *
above and configure the environment variable RLM_LICENSE
to find the correct license server information for your workgroup.
#!/bin/bash source /etc/profile.d/valet.sh vpkg_require tecplot export RLM_LICENSE="$WORKDIR/sw/tecplot/licenses" tec360 "$@"
Interactive job
All interactive jobs should be run on a compute node by setting your workgroup and using qlogin. You need to be running X-Windows and you should make sure you are in the directory where you want to run Tecplot. Once on the compute node, you will automatically be in the same working directory. For example, for traine
on Mills, this process might look like this:
[traine@mills ~]$ workgroup -g it_css [(it_css:traine)@mills ~]$ qlogin Your job 692290 ("QLOGIN") has been submitted waiting for interactive job to be scheduled ... Your interactive job 692290 has been successfully scheduled. Establishing /opt/shared/OpenGridScheduler/local/qlogin_ssh session to host n017 ... [traine@n017 ~]$ tecplot Adding dependency `x11/RHEL6.1` to your environment Adding package `tecplot/2013-r1` to your environment Tecplot 14.0.2.35002 - 14:35:05 03-11-2013 [linux64-sled10.4] Configuration File : /opt/shared/tecplot/2013-r1/tecplot.cfg Process Temp Dir : /scratch/692290.1.it_css-qrsh.q/tecplot_traine/tpa7Qbddm Tecplot displayed on : localhost:10.0 OpenGL driver version : 2.1 Mesa 9.0-devel Tecplot executable : /opt/shared/tecplot/2013-r1/bin/tecplot.shared Tecplot Home Directory : /opt/shared/tecplot/2013-r1 QuickMacro File : /opt/shared/tecplot/2013-r1/tecplot.mcr Addon Startup File : /opt/shared/tecplot/2013-r1/tecplot.add AddOn Loaded : CFD Analyzer AddOn Loaded : CGNS Loader AddOn Loaded : DEM Loader AddOn Loaded : DXF Loader AddOn Loaded : FLOW-3D Loader AddOn Loaded : EnSight Loader AddOn Loaded : Fluent Data Loader AddOn Loaded : General Text Loader AddOn Loaded : HDF Loader AddOn Loaded : HDF5 Loader AddOn Loaded : PLOT3D Loader AddOn Loaded : PLY Polygon File Loader AddOn Loaded : Text Spreadsheet Loader AddOn Loaded : Kiva Loader AddOn Loaded : Finite Element Analysis Loader AddOn Loaded : Python Utility AddOn Loaded : Akima Spline AddOn Loaded : General Curve Fit AddOn Loaded : Stineman Interpolation AddOn Loaded : extendmcr AddOn Loaded : Advanced Quick Edit Tool AddOn Loaded : Multi Frame Manager AddOn Loaded : Create Multiple Frames AddOn Loaded : Tensor Eigensystem AddOn Loaded : Key Frame Animation AddOn Loaded : Aux Data Editor AddOn Loaded : Time Series Plot AddOn Loaded : Extract Over Time AddOn Loaded : Link Solution Time AddOn Loaded : Extend Time MCR AddOn Loaded : Strand Editor
You should see a tecplot 360 splash window followed by the GUI for Tecplot 360. If you get the error
Err: Cannot open display.
your forgot to run X-Windows.