This Abaqus tutorial is a good place to start regarding the use of Abaqus. Once you understand how to create an input file you can do the following to have the job run on the server.

Also, Abaqus documentation is online.

We are going to follow very close what is done in another document that generally describes how to run jobs on the servers.

1. ssh into a server.
2. You will need an Abaqus input file.
3. Run your job
   • Decide where you want to run the job For this example I will have it in my home directory (or N: drive on windows)
   • run the job: /usr/opt/bin/abaqus job=input_file_name
4. For long running jobs you will want to use the screen command.

   This page lists the department servers. Only use the ones running RHEL.

5. If you are in desperate need of the gui you can run it. If you get errors starting it (which isn't surprising since the compute servers won't have the proper video drivers installed) Then try running:

   abaqus cae -mesa

   This should get around the lack of proper video drivers.