We have the Abaqus software suite at the University of Sheffield and we are having difficultly running the code in MPI parallel on more than one node on our HPC cluster ShARC. The problem is related to the fact that we have password-less SSH switched off on the ShARC cluster. The code runs successfully using MPI or SMP on one node.

Therefore does anyone know of a solution to get the MPI parallel Abaqus working on more than one node with e.g. a tight integration SGE parallel environment for MPI (which we have set up) or another way of doing it on a cluster with password-less SSH disabled?

I have had a go at modifying the variables in the 'abaqus_v6.env' file, e.g. mp_rsh_command, but without success.

Thanks,

David