Ansys Workbench combines access to ANSYS applications with utilities that manage the product workflow. Workbench allows you to construct projects composed of multiple dependent systems that can be updated sequentially based on a workflow defined by the project schematic.
Workbench is included with ANSYS as part of our Newcastle University licensing agreement to all users of the HPC facilities.
To use ANSYS Workbench on Comet, please read the main ANSYS guide first.
The ANSYS Workbench (and all graphical tools launched from within it) can now be run on Comet. To do so start a new X11 desktop session using our Open OnDemand service.
Comet GPU nodes and ANSYS
Using a GPU node for ANSYS Workbench display is unsupported. GPU nodes are only to be used for accelerated ANSYS Mechanical APDL solvers or batch-mode Fluent compute jobs.
Unless you are using Workbench to run Mechanical APDL solvers you should therefore not assign a GPU card, and should only ever use the VNC Desktop session option from our Open OnDemand service. Please do not use the VNC Desktop (GPU) session option - this is unsupported.
$ source /nobackup/shared/containers/ansys.2025r2.sh $ container.run runwb2
You should now be able to run any of the installed ANSYS tools directly from the Workbench application.
Remember to log off and close the VNC Desktop session down when you are finished - your HPC project account will continue to accrue time against the allocated resources whilst the VNC Desktop session runs, even if you are not actively using it.
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