How to use gams

Software	Version	Cluster
gams	37.1.0	Dardel

gams module

To load the GAMS module

ml PDC/21.11
ml gams/37.1.0

Running using the queue system

Here is an example job script, job.sh, for running gams

#!/bin/bash
ml PDC/21.11
ml gams/37.1.0
gams inputfile.gms > outputfile.lst

Which can be submitted with

sbatch --nodes=1 -t 00:30:00 -p main -A projectname ./job.sh

where projectname needs to be replaced with a valid compute time allocation.

Running interactively

To run on an interactive node, you can allocate a node

salloc --nodes=1 -t 00:30:00 -p main -A projectname

and then run your program with the commands

srun gams inputfile.gms > outputfile.lst

License file

Without a valid GAMS license the system will operate as a free demo system. If you own a single-user license, then you can place it in the Private subdirectory of your home folder and tell GAMS which license to use with the command line argument “license”, for example:

gams license=$HOME/Private/gams-lic.txt inputfile.gms > outputfile.lst

Make sure that the license file is not readable by other users. If you own a multi-user license, then you need to use specific file access groups to control access.

Disclaimer

PDC takes no responsibility for the correctness of results produced with the binaries. Always evaluate the binaries against known results for the systems and properties you are investigating before using the binaries for production jobs.