[JuPa]

Hi,

Is there a way to tell CFX to stop the simulation after 11 hours of wall clock run time? I submit jobs to a high end computer node, which the maximum allowed run time is 12 hours. Before the computer kicks me out and aborts my job I want to write a results file at the 11th hour.

I thought the "Elapsed Wall Clock Time Control" option might have done this but after reading the CFX Pre guide it seems I'm wrong.

I did a search, and read a comment by ghorrocks in this thread who said

Originally Posted by ghorrocks

Another thing to consider - you can use the cfx5stop command to stop a run in progress. It will shut down the slover and write a complete results file of whereever it got to. If you want to be clever you can set up a timed job (maybe using cron) to execute cfx5stop just before your time is up. Make sure you give it enough time to complete the timestep it is working on and write the results file.

This sounds like what I want. Does anyone know of a way to implement this?

Thank you