Specifications

16 | CHAPTER 1: RUNNING COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS® WITH AMAZON ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD™
To create a COMSOL Multiphysics server, use the AWS CloudFormation™ tool and
the script COMSOL_CloudServer.json, which is provided by COMSOL.
1 Go to https://comsol.aws.amazon.com/ and click the AWS CloudFormation™
icon.
2 Click Create Stack.
3 Write a name for your stack— for example, My-COMSOL-MPH-Server.
4 Choose Upload a template to Amazon S3.
5 Navigate to the folder where you saved the AWS CloudFormation™ templates and
choose the file COMSOL_CloudServer.json.
6 Specify the needed parameters.
a AcceptLicense - Write yes if you have read through and accept the COMSOL
Software License Agreement, available at http://www.comsol.com/shared/
downloads/sla.pdf. Please observe that if you do not answer yes to this question,
you will not be able to create a COMSOL Multiphysics server in the cloud.
b AdditionalNodes - Specify if you want to start more nodes than one and connect
them together to a cluster, for computing larger models and/or parametric
sweeps.
c AMIID - If you have created an AMI with a custom COMSOL installation, enter
the ID of the AMI here. This input is optional.
d Autostart - Specify if you want the COMSOL Multiphysics server to start
automatically after launch. The options cluster, yes, and no are available. If you
specify cluster, COMSOL will launch the Multiphysics Server in cluster mode.
This is necessary when you are creating additional nodes.
e Company - Specify your company name.
f COMSOLServerPort - Specify what port the COMSOL Multiphysics server
should use. The default is 2036.
g InstanceType - Specify what instance type you want to use for your COMSOL
Multiphysics server. Different instance types have different hardware
specifications and costs. The recommended type is an instance type from the R3