Dashboard

Dashboard#

The Flow360 GUI dashboard serves as the central hub for managing and monitoring your computational fluid dynamics (CFD) projects. This interface provides an intuitive overview of your simulations, resources, and project status.

Dashboard Components#

Component

Description

Recent

Grid view of recent CFD projects with status indicators.

FlexCredits

Display of available computation credits.

Company-wide storage

Storage usage bar showing your company’s current consumption against its allocated limit.

Pending resources

Overview of computational resources in use, diverged, or failed.

Start with the example

Use a pre-prepared example to get accustomed to Flow360.

Detailed Descriptions#

Recent#

The main area displays a grid of recent project cards, showing your latest CFD simulations in chronological order.

  • Information shown for each project:

    • Project name and description

    • Number of surface meshes, volume meshes and cases

    • Divergence and error indicators

    • Last modification timestamp

  • New project button:

    • Create a new project

  • Refresh button:

    • Manually refresh all project resource statuses

    • Located next to New project button

FlexCredits#

Shows your current balance of computation credits.

  • Balance: Numerical value of your current FlexCredit balance.

  • Updates: Credits are consumed based on computational resources used.

Company-wide storage#

Displays your company’s total storage consumption relative to its allocated limit. This widget appears on the dashboard only for companies that have a company-wide storage agreement with Flexcompute.

Company-wide storage widget showing usage bar and current/total storage values

  • Usage bar: A horizontal progress bar shows the proportion of storage used. The label above the bar displays the current usage and the total limit (e.g. 4.22 GB / 8.00 GB).

  • Warning at 90% usage: When storage consumption reaches 90% of the allocated limit, a warning is displayed on the dashboard to alert all users in your company.

  • Overage billing at 100% usage: When the storage limit is fully reached, any additional storage consumed beyond the allocated limit is billed using the standard storage billing rules.

Note: The company-wide storage limit is available depending on your customer agreement. If you do not see this widget, your account uses the standard per-use billing model. Contact Flexcompute support for more information.

Pending resources#

Displays pending computational resources and their current status.

Information Shown:

  • Running jobs

  • Queue status

  • Errors and divergence

Note: Below Pending resources there is a visual representation of all project’s statuses called Projects.

Start with the example#

A quick-start option for new users to begin with Flow360.

Features:

  • Template for common simulation scenarios

  • Complete simulation setup

  • Sample geometries and volume meshes

💡 Tips

  • Click the details icon on a project card for additional information

  • Monitor resource usage in real-time through the pending resources panel

  • Quickly see which project has diverged or errored

  • Use the refresh button if you don’t see recent changes reflected

  • Start with the example project if you’re new to Flow360

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

  • How do I start a new project?

    Click the “New project” button in the top right corner of the dashboard.

  • How can I monitor resource usage?

    Check the “Pending resources” panel on the right sidebar for real-time resource allocation and usage statistics.

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