<div dir="ltr"><div>Back when we had software requiring MathLM/FlexLM, we just used NAT to get the cluster nodes talking to the licensing server. We also had a consumable in Grid Engine so that people could keep their jobs queued if there were no licenses available.<br><br></div>Skylar<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Mahmood Sayed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mahmood.sayed@gmail.com" target="_blank">mahmood.sayed@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div>We've used both NAT and fully routable private networks up to 1000s of nodes. NAT was a little more secure fire or needs. </div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Apr 14, 2017, at 2:41 PM, Richter, Brian J {BIS} <<a href="mailto:Brian.J.Richter@pepsico.com" target="_blank">Brian.J.Richter@pepsico.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Beowulf] HPC and Licensed Software<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For a couple years we did NAT through our head node for checking out licenses (including StarCCM) and talking to Red Hat Satellite. We’re now transitioning to fully routed networks for our compute nodes, but NAT did the job well.<u></u><u></u></p>
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have a HeadNode which runs MOAB/Torque and we have 4 compute nodes connected with IB. The compute nodes are on their own private network. My question is, what is the best way to handle software that requires licenses to run on the compute nodes? For instance
we are trying to get STARCCM+ up and running on the cluster, the license server is on our general user network, the headnode is also on the user network, but when we submit a job to torque for STARCCM it keeps throwing errors that the software cannot connect
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