The process of submitting a job requires the user to select the file and options desired. The job is submitted to the system and ultimately executes MD Nastran, ABAQUS, MSC.Marc, or some other application module. Patran’s Analysis Manager properly handles all necessary files and provides monitoring capability to the user during and after job execution. See Monitor for more information on monitoring jobs.

In Patran, jobs are submitted one of two ways: through the Analysis application form for the particular Analysis Preference, or outside of Patran through Patran’s Analysis Manager user interface with the Action (or tree tab in the Windows interface) set to Submit. Submitting through the Analysis form in Patran makes the submittal process transparent to the user and is explained in Getting Started.

For more flexibility the full user interface can be invoked from the system prompt as explained in the previous chapter or from within Patran by pressing the Analysis Manager button on the Analysis application form or by invoking it from the Tools pull down menu. This gives access to more advanced and flexible features such as submitting existing input files from different directories, changing groups or organizations (queue manager daemons/services), selecting different hosts or queues, and configuring analysis specific items. The rest of this chapter explains these capabilities.

Below is the UNIX submittal form (see Windows Submittal for the Windows interface).