There are three commands with which a OpenSees job can be launched.

• OpenSees - For running a job in serial (single CPU).
• OpenSeesSP - Intended for the single analysis of very large models.
• OpenSeesMP - For advanced parametric studies.

More info can be found about running OpenSees in parallel here.

#!/bin/bash -e

#SBATCH --job-name      OpenSees-Serial
#SBATCH --time          00:05:00          # Walltime
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task 1                 # Double if hyperthreading enabled
#SBATCH --mem           512MB             # total mem
#SBATCH --hint          nomultithread     # Hyperthreading disabled

module load OpenSees

input="frame.tcl"
OpenSees ${input}

Input from Shell

Information can be passed from the bash shell to a Tcl script by use of environment variables.

Set in Slurm script:

export MY_VARIABLE="Hello World!"

Retrieved in Tcl script:

puts $::env(MY_VARIABLE)