Megdich Islem <megdich_is...@yahoo.fr> writes: > Yes, Empire does the fluid structure coupling. It couples OpenFoam (fluid > analysis) and Abaqus (structural analysis). > Does all the software need to have the same MPI architecture in order to > communicate ?
I doubt it's doing that, and presumably you have no control over abaqus, which is a major source of pain here. You could wrap one (set of) program(s) in a script to set the appropriate environment before invoking the real program. That might be a bit painful if you need many of the OF components, but it should be straightforward to put scripts somewhere on PATH ahead of the real versions. On the other hand, it never ceases to amaze how difficult proprietary engineering applications make life on HPC systems; I could believe there's a catch. Also you (or systems people) normally want programs to use the system MPI, assuming that's been set up appropriately.
