CFD Online Discussion Forums - CFX High Performance Computing solver-mpi. exe not found

Hi everybody,

I am experiencing a strange error when trying to run a simulation on our university's HPC system. The job is started by running a batch file with the following command line:

Code:

/ANSYS/v193/v193/CFX/bin/cfx5solve -batch -double -def cal18.def -parallel -start-method "Intel MPI Local Parallel" -part 36 -monitor CFX_001.out

After a few seconds the queue system generates an abort email, caused by exit code 2. The .out file says:

Code:

An error has occurred in cfx5solve:



The solver executable

/rzbib/ANSYS/v2019.1/v193/CFX/bin/linux-amd64/double-ifort/solver-mpi.exe

could not be found, or is not readable.

I am wondering why the solver is looking for the mpi.exe in this (wrong) directory, as it is started from a different one. The correct directory contains the required solver-mpi.exe...i've checked it.

Has anybody experienced similar issues or has an idea what is messed up here? A workaround that came to my mind is to specify the required solver-mpi.exe with its root within the batch file....Not sure, if this is gonna work.

Thanks in advance,
Sundriver