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

  1. Login to https://console.cloud.google.com.

  2. On the left navigation bar, go to Compute Engine.

  3. 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

  4. 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