{"id":240552,"date":"2022-11-12T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/understanding-ansys-cfd-mechanical-hpc-licensing\/"},"modified":"2022-11-12T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T10:40:10","slug":"understanding-ansys-cfd-mechanical-hpc-licensing","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/understanding-ansys-cfd-mechanical-hpc-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Ansys CFD, Mechanical, HPC licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that each Mechanical and CFD license allows solver to run on 4 cores. We have 5 Mechanical, 3 CFD licenses and there are 4 HPC cores available. While trying to run CFD in 3 different workstations (similar ones with 12 logical processors each), license works for some configuration of cores and does not work for the rest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example,<\/p>\n<p>Workstation 1 = 12 cores, W2 = 4 cores, W3 = 4 cores =&gt; Works fine<\/p>\n<p>W1 = 12 cores, W2 = 4 cores, W3 = 8 cores =&gt; Does not work<\/p>\n<p>W1 = 8 cores, W2 = 8 cores, W3 = 8 cores =&gt; Works fine<\/p>\n<p>Why is this so ? If at all each license works with 4 cores, then the maximum core that a workstation can utilise is 4 + 4 (License and HPC) = 8. How is CFD running 12 cores when the max core availability is 8 ?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Need some clarity on this, kindly help.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-240552","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-cfd-1","topic-tag-ansys-hpc-2","topic-tag-core"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["267504","68381"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.220.96.181"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1539"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["240552"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["68381","267504"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["240733"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["240733"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-11-14 19:39:50"]},"test":"babugandhibhel-in"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/240552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/240552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}