[inarus]

Hi all,

To start simple, me and my Professor at school would like to run Fine/Marine on multiple nodes in a classroom, at first on 2 desktop PCs (Win7x64).

The main goal is to create a cluster from 5 + 1 servers (WinServer2008x64), located in an extremely noisy room, air conditioned, day and night, winter and summer. No IT professional in our University seems to have the time, interest or maybe the experience to help us out.

The servers are used mainly as license servers for various software our Professors are using remotely for research, CFD, FEA, etc, and sure, for a centralized intranet for our multiple classrooms and 2 separate buildings of offices including the towing tank facility.

I decided to ask here, and take some time to research how to achieve an MPI computation on at least some common i5 workstations.

Fine/Marine's license supports only 8 CPU's computing at once.
If we can achieve this, my Professor told would be a good opportunity to talk up further to extend the license for our need.

Thank you for your time.

[MaximePetre]

Dear Inarus,

I confirm that it is possible to connect multiple machines to run FINE/Marine computations. The procedure is described in the FINE/Marine documentation. Did you have any trouble in particular? If it the case, the best solution would be to contact your Numeca office or agent to get support in your particular case.

Best regards,

Maxime PETRE,
Numeca International Support

[inarus]

Originally Posted by MaximePetre

Dear Inarus,

I confirm that it is possible to connect multiple machines to run FINE/Marine computations. The procedure is described in the FINE/Marine documentation. Did you have any trouble in particular? If it the case, the best solution would be to contact your Numeca office or agent to get support in your particular case.

Best regards,

Maxime PETRE,
Numeca International Support

Mr. Maxime PETRE,

Thank you for your quick reply. I will look forward to the user manual. I suppose it will be very helpful.
If you don't mind, I will address further uncertain issues here.

Thank you very much!