HPC/Application licenses

Introduction

Licenses for several high-profile commercial applications are hosted on servers within the Carbon HPC cluster. Applications consuming these licenses can run at the following network locations:

1. As a standalone application on a computer external to Carbon.
2. Interactively on Carbon's login nodes, either in a virtual desktop (VNC) or with graphics displayed elsewhere (X11).
3. Non-interactively (as a batch job) on Carbon's compute node.

The current page describes network requirements for situation 1. The other situations require no networking considerations for license access, though they do for remote graphics, which is described elsewhere