Checking Status of Shared-Application Licenses

The check_license command provides license availability information for the HPCMP shared applications shown in the first and third columns of the table below. The second and fourth columns show the argument supplied to check_license.

SLB Applications Non-SLB Applications
ABAQUS abaqus CFD++ cfd++
ANSYS acfd COMSOL comsol
LS-DYNA lsdyna FIELDVIEW fieldview
MATLAB matlab TECPLOT tecplot
STAR-CCM starcm
US3D us3d

The check_license command shall be available on all allocated HPCMP systems.

To check the status of any SLB or non-SLB license, execute check_license followed by the argument for the desired application name as shown in the table above. For SLB-supported applications, a listing of all reservations follows license availability information. For any non-SLB application, check_license will display only the number of unused licenses.

For example, the command:

$ check_license starcm

produces output similar to the following:

                     Available starcm Licenses:
                     Reservable starcm Licensed features (avail licenses):

ccmppower: 2

=============================================================================

                         Reservations for starcm

Display window is from Wed Oct 10 16:52:11 2012 (1349902331)
                    to Thu Oct 10 16:52:11 2013 (1381438331)

id=RAR478227 user=<username> host=<system> ts=1349531972 te=13.. tok:ccmppower=1
    Sat Oct 6  09:59:32 2012 through Fri Oct 12 08:59:32

The addition of new SLB or non-SLB applications to the original list of supported applications automatically updates the check_license command.

The SLB provides a number of interactive scripts that users may execute to get information about current or future availability of licenses. Please see the SLB User Guide, posted on the HPC Centers website, for more information.

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