Altair HyperWorks Licensing 2020 Release Notes
Highlights
- HyperWorks Units and SolidThinking Units are now unified under Altair Units providing tremendous value to the user’s investment.
- Solver unit draw has been modified to provide better value and to better adapt to multi-server HPC environments.
New Features
- Altair License Manager
- Altair 2020 requires Altair License Manager 14.5.1. The new License Manager is compatible with previous versions of Altair software. Licensing behavior of HyperWorks versions 2019.4 and older is not affected by the change of license server.
- Product license features
- The following new Altair 2020 applications are available under Altair
Units licensing:
- ConnectMe
- A tool to efficiently manage, launch, and update Altair and APA software applications. A license feature is required to receive product updates and notifications.
- EDEM
- Discrete element (DEM) solution with modeling environment and solver.
- Inspire Render
- Full-featured concept design rendering environment created specifically for industrial and product designers.
- Inspire Studio
- Full-featured concept design modeling environment created specifically for industrial and product designers.
- Seam
- Statistical Energy Analysis solution for high frequency vibrations and acoustics.
- Pollex PCB
- Printed Circuit Board (PCB) modeling, verification environment with solutions for manufacturing validation, and solvers for signal integrity (SI) and thermal behavior.
- Solver licensing
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Solver licensing was modified. In general, both licensing variants (per job and by hardware usage) of previous releases continue to be available in a modified manner. The per-job licensing now applies mainly to in-application execution of solvers. The HPC license provides value for large scale solver execution on clusters.
It draws units based on the total CPU core count of a solver, and therefore the license draw does not depend on number of jobs, but on compute resources used. GPU acceleration for AcuSolve, Feko, and OptiStruct is included thru elevated core count. EDEM GPU support is licensed in a similar way. Combination of in-app and HPC license depends on the license provided.
For more information, reference the Altair Units Licensing section in the HyperWorks documentation.