I'm running hundreds of Abaqus simulations using an iterative python script. halfway through, Abaqus decided to disconnect from the server and I'm trying to find a way to reconnect without having to restart Abaqus.
Ask a stand alone licence from SIMULIA, if you can. the chance of crashing because of checking the licence will decrease when there was no need for online connection. However, my strong suggestion is to figure out a way to store your results, for a crash may happen for other different reasons. A simple code in python for saving and restoring results can help you to not loos your previous calculations, whenever the crash happens and you may need to restart the program.
Thanks for the response. My other ODBs are saved. I just didn't want to fiddle about with the job submission script to make it start from the job where the license disconnected. But in the end I had to do exactly that, and things didn't go as planned, I might end up resubmitting the 100+ jobs eventually. But this is horrible, I'm loosing precious time!