Products: ABAQUS/CAE ABAQUS/Viewer
Benefits: You can submit an analysis to a remote system and view the resulting output database from a local system.
Description: You can create a network ODB connector on a remote system that allows you to do the following:
Open a remote output database in read-only mode and view the contents of the output database using the Visualization module. The behavior of the Visualization module does not change when the output database is remote; for example, you can view the output database while the analysis is running on a remote machine, and more than one user can view the output database.
Import a part from a remote output database.
Import a model from a remote output database.
Upgrade a remote output database.
After you create and start a network ODB connector, you can use it to navigate the directory structure on a remote host. When you open a database from ABAQUS/CAE, a Network connectors entry appears under Directory in the file selection dialog box.
When you start an ABAQUS/CAE session, a cache is created in the scratch file directory. ABAQUS/CAE uses this cache for local data storage when you use a network ODB connector to read from a remote output database. The cache greatly increases the performance of the Visualization module in ABAQUS/CAE when accessing data from the remote output database. In most cases you will not have to tune the size of the cache. However, you may have to reduce the size of the cache if it is consuming too much disk space and reducing the speed of other applications on your system.
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