Google Cloud¶

Prerequisites¶

Google Cloud Account
Sufficient quota to access a2-highcpu-1g Instances (These are Instances with Nvidia A100 GPUs.)
M-Star license
M-Star download portal account
Setup SSH keys for your Google Cloud project

Create Instance¶

Login to https://console.cloud.google.com.
On the left navigation bar, go to Compute Engine.
Click Create Instance at the top.
1. Set name.
2. Under Machine configuration, select the GPU machine family.
3. Select GPU type: NVidia Tesla A100.
4. Select the number of GPUs: 2+.
5. Under Boot disk, select Change.
  1. Operating System: Ubuntu
  2. Version: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  3. Size: 500
Select Create.

Install M-Star CFD¶

See Linux (Single Node).

Troubleshooting Pre and Post startup¶

See Troubleshooting M-Star Pre/Post start up for additional information