Marc Mentat
Marc Mentat by Hexagon Marc is a general purpose finite element program capable of solving structural and thermal problems. Marc input is graphically generated using the program Mentat.
Using Marc Mentat interactive
(Graphical User Interface)
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Using Marc Mentat in SLURM batch jobs
(Command Line Interface)
Test Marc
Load the module
[user@umbrella]$ module purge
[user@umbrella]$ module load MarcMentat/2024.1-intel-2023a
Check execution on empty data file (test.dat)
[user@umbrella]$ touch test.dat
[user@umbrella]$ run_marc -jid test
Program name : marc
Marc shared lib :
Version type : i8
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running the job in the background, see test.log
Final run stream value
RUNJOB= /sw/rl8/zen/app/MarcMentat/marc2024.1/bin/linux64i8/marc -jid test -dirjid /home/20224765/. -maxnum 1000000 -dirjob /home/20224765 -ml 128474 -ci yes -cr yes
test.log file has more info
[user@umbrella]$ cat test.log
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Mon Jan 6 11:36:25 CET 2025
Marc test begins execution
(c) COPYRIGHT 2024 Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Inc., all rights reserved
Requested number of element threads = 1
Requested number of solver threads = 1
VERSION: Marc 2024.1, build 942447 (2024/05/08)
Date: Mon Jan 6 11:36:25 2025
Marc execution begins
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Marc SLURM sbatch jobscript example using Shared Memory
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=test_marc
#SBATCH --output=test_marc-%j.log
#SBATCH --partition=tue.default.q
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=4
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2gb
#SBATCH --time=00:05:00
module purge
module load MarcMentat/2024.1-intel-2023a
run_marc -j e2x1.dat -v no -b no -nte ${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK} -nts ${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK}