HP-MPI Version 1.0 for Windows Release Note

HP-MPI V1.0 for Windows Release Note

Licensing Policy

HP-MPI 1.0 for Windows uses FLEXlm licensing technology. A license is required to use

HP-MPI for Windows. Licenses can be purchased from HP’s software depot at

http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot, or contact your HP representative.

Demo licenses for HP-MPI are also available from HP’s software depot.

Licensing

HP-MPI 1.0 for Windows uses FLEXlm licensing technology. A license file can be named

either as license.dat or any file name with an extension of .lic. The license file must be

placed in the installation directory (default C:\Program Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\

HP-MPI\licenses) on all the runtime systems, and on the license server.

You will need to provide the hostname and hostid number of the system where the FLEXlm

daemon for HP-MPI for Windows will run. The hostid can be obtained by typing the following

command if HP-MPI is already installed on the system:

%MPI_ROOT%\bin\licensing\<arch>\lmutil lmhostid

The hostname can be obtained using the control panel by following Control Panel -> System

-> Computer Name tab.

The default search path used to find an MPI license file is:

"%MPI_ROOT%\licenses:.".

If the license needs to be placed in another location which would not be found by the above

search, the user may set the environment variable LM_LICENSE_FILE to explicitly specify the

location of the license file.

For more information, see http://licensing.hp.com.

Installing License Files

A valid license file contains the system hostid and the associated license key. License files can

be named either as license.dat or any name with extension of *.lic (like mpi.lic, for

example). The license file must be copied to the installation directory (default C:\Program

Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\HP-MPI\licenses) on all runtime systems, and to the

license server.

The command to run the license server is:

"%MPI_ROOT%\bin\licensing\<arch>\lmgrd" -c mpi.lic