Introduction to OpenFOAM (online)

Thursday Apr 27, 2023, 9:30 AM → 3:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Online

As a joint effort of bwHPC-S5 and NHR@KIT, the Steinbuch Centre for Computing is hosting an introductory level course on the parallel use of OpenFOAM software for (future) users of the bwUniCluster or HoreKa supercomputers. The course will be held online April 27, 2023 from 9:30 to 15:00 (in English, online only). The course covers topics like using modules for setting up the environment, some linux commands, submitting parallel jobs or setting up harddisk space for the computations as well as two OpenFOAM tutorials. The course is organized by the Competence Center for Engineering and the SimDataLab Engineering in Energy and Mobility at the Steinbuch Centre for Computing, KIT.

Participants are expected to already have an account on one of the above two SCC supercomputers or one of the bwFORClusters. If you just obtained a new account - please, immediately after the first login complete the required survey, otherwise your account may be blocked after two weeks. Please, plan several days (3 or 4) for obtaining an account (you should set up a VPN and a 2-way authentication before the course).

The course will take place virtually and participants will get per Email the link 1-2 days before the course. No course fees apply. The number of participants is restricted to 40.

The course is restricted to users from Baden-Württemberg Universities and applied Universities. Please login exclusively with your official University-account. Registrations with accounts from private emails (e.g. googlemail, yahoo etc.) are not welcome and will be removed.

1 Welcome and course contents

2 Some basic linux line commands

3 Setup of environment variables using modules

4 Workspace setup

5 Tutorial 1

12:00 PM Lunch Break

6 Submitting a parallel job. Queues.

7 Tutorial 2

8 Questions and feedback