Connecting to a Remote Fluent Session Using PyFluent.

[raj366v]

Hi PyFluent Experts,

I have Fluent and PyFluent installed on my laptop, and I can successfully launch Fluent using launch_fluent as well as connect to an existing session using connect_fluent.

Now, I want to connect to a Fluent session running on another machine that has more computing power (more cores) than my laptop. I attempted to use the connect_fluent command by providing the IP address, port, and password, but I encountered an error, and the connection was not established as it does when connecting locally.

Could someone guide me on the correct procedure to connect to a Fluent session running on a remote machine using PyFluent? Any suggestions or best practices would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[hpohekar]

@raj366v

When server and client are in a different machine, the environment variable SERVER_INFO_DIR can be set to a shared directory between the two machines and the server-info file will be created in that directory.

The value of the environment variable SERVER_INFO_DIR can be different for the server and client machines. The relative path of the server-side server-info file is passed to Fluent launcher and PyFluent connects to the server using the absolute path of the client-side server-info file.

A typical use case of the environment variable SERVER_INFO_DIR is as follows:
- Server machine environment variable: SERVER_INFO_DIR=/mnt/shared
- Client machine environment variable: SERVER_INFO_DIR=\\\\server\\shared
- Server-side server-info file: /mnt/shared/serverinfo-xyz.txt
- Client-side server-info file: \\\\server\\shared\\serverinfo-xyz.txt
- Fluent launcher command: fluent.exe ... -sifile=serverinfo-xyz.txt ...
- From PyFluent: connect_to_fluent(server_info_file_name="\\\\server\\shared\\serverinfo-xyz.txt")

cc: @mkundu1 @seanpearsonuk