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

Test Marc Mentat

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
.....
.....
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
.....
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
......

Test MarcMentat and Fortran compiler

Load the module

[user@umbrella]$ module purge
[user@umbrella]$ module load MarcMentat/2024.1-intel-2023a

Check execution on empty data file (test.dat) and fortran code (main.f)

[user@umbrella]$ touch test.dat
[user@umbrella]$ 
[user@umbrella]$ run_marc -jid test -u main

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

# The input file input.dat can be referenced without the .dat extension

run_marc -j input -v no -b no -nte ${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK} -nts ${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK}

Marc SLURM sbatch jobscript example using specific Fortran code

#!/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

# The input file input.dat can be referenced without the .dat extension
# The Fortran code main.f can be referenced without the .f extension

run_marc -j input -u main -v no -b no -nte ${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK} -nts ${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK}