Activating Intel Parallel Studio 2015 (Linux) trial version

[Nadisanka_R_]

Hi,

I want to activate my Intel Parallel Studio trial version with proper licensing. OS is CentOS 6.6. Please let me know how can I activate my trial version once I receive my license file.

Thank you!

Regards,

Zank

[Hubert_H_Intel]

Hi Zank,

Do you mean how to convert your eval installation into a product installation with a permanent license? If this is your request, just copy the product license file into /opt/intel/licenses - if this dir doesn't exist yet, create it first.. That's all; no re-installation is required.

Regards, Hubert.

[Nadisanka_R_]

Hi Hubert,

Thank you ! Yes. That is one thing I wanted to know.

I need another small clarification. I am using VMs from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for my simulations. However due to some reasons I might have to change my VM time to time (Usually I move to a high performance VM only when my simulation load is high. Otherwise I use a normal VM for my simulations). Is there a way to reuse the same Intel Parallel Studio license when I switch to a new VM? Please kindly let me know.

Once this thing gets clarified I can purchase license for my trial version.

Thank you!

Regards,

Zank

[Hubert_H_Intel]

Zank,

In such case it's the best to install Parallel Studio on a share and mount it to a VM as appropriate. You can copy the license file into one of the default license search paths:

$HOME/intel/licenes
/opt/intel/licenses
  or 
<installdir>/<product>/licenses.

If 'licenses' doens't exist yet, you can create it.

The alternative options would be to modify the enviornment variable and point it to the location of the license file (export INTEL_LICENSE_FILE=<path_to/lic_file)

I hope this helps.

Regards, Hubert.

[Nadisanka_R_]

Hi Hubert,

Thank you for the information.

When moving from one VM to the other what I usually do is, I take a snapshot of the current hard disk and mount it to the new VM. This way I do not need to re-install all the required software packages from the scratch. But last time when I did this with an activated trial version of the Intel Parallel Studio I got an error saying no license file found or something. Then I had to re-install Intel Parallel Studio and re-activate a trial version. But not the other packages I had installed earlier. 

So do you think I can use this snapshot strategy and use Intel Parallel Studio in different VMs if I have a proper license in the /opt/intel/licenses folder?

Please kindly let me know.

Thank you!

Regards,

Zank

[Hubert_H_Intel]

Yes, when moving installations to another VM you need to move the license file too or copy it over to one of the default license directories after move (e.g.$HOME/intel/licenes or /opt/intel/licenses or <installdir>/<product>/licenses.).

Hubert.

[Nadisanka_R_]

Thank you very much!

Regards,

Zank