Specifications

4 | CHAPTER 1: RUNNING COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS® WITH AMAZON ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD™
Running COMSOL Multiphysics® with
Amazon™ Elastic Compute Cloud™
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™, also known as Amazon EC2™, allows you to
dynamically allocate virtual computer resources at a small hourly fee. If you have access
to a COMSOL
®
Floating Network License (FNL), you can run one or several
computations in the cloud. For this to work, the remote virtual computer in the cloud
needs the ability to access and check out an FNL license key from an on-premise
COMSOL license manager, or access to a cloud-based license server. For a cloud-based
license server, an extra license file is necessary.
This tutorial explains how to create and run a COMSOL Multiphysics
®
server on
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™ (EC2™). The step-by-step instructions are
platform independent. For the steps where differences between operating systems
exist, Linux
®
and Macintosh instructions are explicitly written.
In this section:
• Nomenclature
• Requirements
• Introduction
• Download AWS CloudFormation™ Templates for COMSOL®
• Create a Key Pair
• Create Key for Use in PuTTY (Optional)
• Create a COMSOL® License Server on EC2™
• Create login.properties File for EC2™ (Optional)
• Forward Ports From Your On Premise License Server
• Create a COMSOL Multiphysics® server
• Connect to the COMSOL Multiphysics® Server
• Disconnect from the COMSOL Multiphysics® Server
The Floating Network License (FNL) option for COMSOL is required
to run jobs on a remote computer or use cloud resources.