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Licensing count on parallel compile Jobs

Stefan_R_1 — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:12:37 GMT

Hi,

I am interested in licensing aspects of parallel compile jobs. I plan to use Composer XE compiler on a Linux host with 32 Cores and two Xeon PHI cards.

How are such parallel compile jobs counted for licenses? Does each compiler instance count as a separate "user"?

Please answer this question both for

"single user" licenses, and
floating licenses

Thanks and Regards,
Stefan Rink

Hi Stefan,

Hubert_H_Intel — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:00:44 GMT

Hi Stefan,

1. For named-user (formerly known as single-user) licenses:

A named-user license owner can run as many instances of a tool on a single machine (including all installed Xeon Phi cards). However s/he CANNOT run several instances of the same license on DIFFERENT machines. A license can be installed on several machines, but not being used in parallel at the same time. BTW: As the name indicates a named-user license is bound to an individual person who cannot share the license with other co-workers, even not if the license is being used once at the same time.

2. For floating licenses, a license seat is being consumed per user and machine (including all installed Xeon Phi cards). A user who starts several instances of tool (e.g. a parallel project build with the compiler) on a single machine consumes one license seat only. If the same user starts several instances on different machines concurrently, as many license seats as machines used are being consumed.

Does this answer your question?

Regards, Hubert.

Hi Hubert,

Stefan_R_1 — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:28:48 GMT

Hi Hubert,

thanks, this answers my question. However, your answer brings up another question :-)

Would two users on one machine use up one Seat or two Seats of a floating license?

Regards,
Stefan

Stefan,

Hubert_H_Intel — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:38:07 GMT

Stefan,

Two users on one machine would consume two license seats.

Hubert.