Specifications

RUNNING COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS® WITH AMAZON™ ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD™ | 5
• Shut Down and Delete Your Stacks
• Troubleshooting
Nomenclature
The following terms are used in this guide:
• AWS ™, Amazon Web Services™.
• AWS CloudFormation™, Amazon's tool for launching collections of AWS™
resources from a pre-defined template.
• EC2™, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™.
• AMI, An Amazon™ Machine Image is a special type of pre-configured operating
system and virtual application software, which is used to create a virtual machine
within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™ (EC2™). It serves as the basic unit of
deployment for services delivered using EC2™.
• Amazon S3™, the Amazon Simple Storage Service™, an online cloud storage
service.
• Stack, a collection of Amazon AWS™ resources (EC2™ machines, buckets, security
groups etc.) created by the AWS CloudFormation™ tool.
Requirements
The following requirements should be fulfilled for running COMSOL on the cloud.
• A local installation of COMSOL Multiphysics
®
5.0 update 1 (version 5.0.1.276).
• An Amazon™ account activated for AWS™ services.
• Access to a Floating Network License (FNL) of COMSOL Multiphysics 5.0 or later.
• Make sure your IT-department has configured your organization’s firewall to allow
outbound traffic on port 22. This is required to access your Amazon EC2™
instance.
Introduction
The following steps are needed to run COMSOL on EC2™, and are detailed in this
guide.
1 Download AWS CloudFormation™ Templates for COMSOL®
2 Create a Key Pair.