ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
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I'm using version 6.14-1, requesting 200 Restart interval (Error happens for 100 intervals too).

But at some point in analysis, the following error pops up -
State File Translator exited with an error.
Note that the same error happens if I also tick Time Marks.
The History and Field output requests are at 200 intervals, with field output being at approximate times.

But at some point in analysis, the following error pops up -
State File Translator exited with an error.
Note that the same error happens if I also tick Time Marks.
The History and Field output requests are at 200 intervals, with field output being at approximate times.





RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
Note that Abaqus 6.14-1 has a known bug (can't copy xy-data to clipboard in visualization module), which has been fixed in later release. Not sure my struggle with restart is also related to bug. Regarding the size of .res or .stt files, No they are not even 1GB and I have plenty of space left.
RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
Whats preventing you from updating to v6.14-2? Or v2016?
RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
The .abq file is causing the problem I think, even with 20 intervals, the size is 30GB. Abaqus was having difficulty in writing data to this huge file, while analysis was going on full tandem with usual read/write operation to SSD.
This is just my speculation, any other idea/solution is welcome.
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RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
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For future reference - http://www.egr.msu.edu/software/abaqus/Documentati...
When you run an analysis, you can write the model definition and state to the files required for restart.
In Abaqus/Standard these files are the restart (job-name.res; file size limited to 16 gigabytes), analysis database (.mdl and .stt), part (.prt), output database (.odb), and linear dynamics and substructure database (.sim) files.
In Abaqus/Explicit these files are the restart (job-name.res; file size limited to 16 gigabytes), analysis database (.abq, .mdl, .pac, and .stt), part (.prt), selected results (.sel), and output database (.odb) files.
These files, collectively referred to as the restart files, allow an analysis to be completed up to a certain point in a particular run and restarted and continued in a subsequent run. The output database file only needs to contain the model data; results data are not required and can be suppressed.
RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
I've had this happen with standard analyses and there was an error in the .log file saying "unable to write to the .odb" or something along those lines. It would be interesting to know if explicit gives a different error like you have encountered? Or if your problem was something else.
RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly
20 intervals gave 30 GB file size, now imagine what will be the file size of 100 or 200 intervals! Unfortunately I did not look at the size of .abq file for 100 or 200 interval runs as I was focusing on .stt and .res files only.
RE: ABAQUS/Explicit: Restart request causing Analysis to terminate unexpectedly