The guidelines in this article shows how to submit Lumerical simulation jobs to the Ansys Cloud HPC services from your local computer.
Requisites
- Lumerical 2022 R1.1 and newer
- Ansys User Account
- Ansys Elastic Units (AEU)
Sign in to Ansys Cloud
- Open the Lumerical CAD.
- Click on the "Cloud" icon on the menu bar to show the Ansys cloud integration window.
- Sign into Ansys cloud using the "Sign-in" icon on the Ansys cloud integration window.
Submit a simulation job
- Open your simulation file in the Lumerical CAD.
- Click Submit from the menu bar. If you are not logged in to Ansys cloud, it will prompt you to sign in with your Ansys account.
- Choose your region, hardware resources, e.g. machine type, number of nodes and cores, and advanced solve options from the New Job window.
- Hit Ok to submit your simulation job.
Submit optimizations and sweeps
- Open your simulation file in the Lumerical CAD.
- Navigate to the Optimizations and Sweeps tab in the CAD
- Hit the "Submit" button on the top of the window.
- Choose your hardware settings, i.e. the Region, Machine type, and the number of cores to run each simulation on your sweep.
- Hit "OK" to run the sweeps on Ansys Cloud.
Managing submitted jobs
- The job status will be shown in the Ansys cloud integration window. Manage your submitted jobs or view logs and download completed simulation to view results or run analysis on your local computer.
- The submitted jobs can also be managed from the Ansys cloud portal.
- You can go to the Ansys cloud forum
and Ansys cloud portal 
from the integration window.