Or for any other systems with lmstat: $ lmstat -a -c | less
If you are experiencing licensing issues, please run these commands to view the license availability on the eng-grid: $ comsol-educational-license-info
The COMSOL Class Kit License is available on all CAD, ECL, and Ingalls PCs.Īny Engineering undergraduate student or a graduate student who needs COMSOL for a class (NOT research), you can install the software by running setup.exe from the version directory you want within: \\ad\eng\support\software\windows\i386\comsol\multiphysics
You can try to force hardware (“direct”) rendering with a VNC connection, or can just choose software rendering by appending -3drend sw to your original COMSOL startup command, for example: $ comsol-research -3drend sw On Windows If your remote COMSOL interface crashes with cryptic error messages with “GLX” in the name, it\’s having trouble using hardware graphics rendering over the remote connection. Key is using the research license for LiveLink for MATLAB Troubleshooting 3D Rendering Errors Use the console command 'close' to exit the program $ module load comsol/5.3a matlab/9.4 comsol/researchĬOMSOL Multiphysics server 5.3a (Build: 201) started listening on port 2036 You can also run “comsol server matlab” from the command line, and it will start Matlab with the COMSOL toolboxes already loaded. This will launch matlab if it’s not running, and add the comsol toolboxes to it.
Simply click File > Client/Server/MATLAB > Connect to MATLAB from the menu bar. The first is if you’re working in Comsol and would like to connect Matlab to the running instance. There are 2 ways of getting Matlab and COMSOL to talk. For example, to load version 5.3a of COMSOL with the research license: $ module load comsol/5.3a comsol/research With Matlab
They give you full access to all the COMSOL tools, libs, and paths. If you want to do something more complex than run the GUI tool, you want to use Environment Modules. $ comsol54 # COMSOL Classkit license is the default $ comsol53a-educational # COMSOL 5.3a with the Educational ClassKit license Specific versions of COMSOL can also be called with shortcuts. See Grid/BatchComsol for more information.įor interactive use, run one of these quick commands to launch COMSOL with the appropriate license: You can also run a non-interactive instance of COMSOL by invoking “batch mode” when starting the program. Simply ssh to engineering-grid.bu.edu and run: $ qlogin For remote access to to the default version of COMSOL, you can access it through the Eng-Grid - see the Grid Instructions. Available ModulesĬOMSOL is available on all machines in all of the public Linux labs in the College of Engineering. It is important to note that running batch jobs on Eng-Grid uses a separate license pool of 3 batch licenses. We can only run 3 simultaneous instances of COMSOL under the Research license. This license is also available remotely on Eng-Grid (see On Linux below). Research License (FNL)įor research, BU offers a floating network license which allows us to install COMSOL on any BU owned machine.
We can run 90 simultaneous instances of COMSOL under the Class Kit License. Instructions for Citrix can be found here: Citrix. This license is also available remotely on the Eng-Grid (see On Linux below), as well as on Citrix. COMSOL License Options Class Kit License (CKL)įor lesson preparation, classroom use, homework, and activities for ordinary courses, you should use the Class Kit License.