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TotalCAE Activation Filter 3.6 With License Pooling

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

The latest 3.6 release of the TotalCAE Activation Filter (TAF) now supports license pooling.

License pooling allows the HPC scheduler to look at multiple different license servers as a pool when considering if an application should start or not.

For example, TAF can look at multiple license servers that are in different locations, or owned by different departments, when making license aware scheduling decisions, allowing these to be pooled/aggregated if the application supports this.

ActivationFilter License Pooling

This update is free to all customers on active maintenance.

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TotalCAE Activation Filter with Matlab for License Aware Scheduling

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

The TotalCAE suite makes sure licensed applications like MathWorks Matlab™ do not start until sufficient application licenses are available on Microsoft HPC Server. This situation occurs when you have more hardware resources on your cluster than Matlab distributed licenses.

Matlab fails on the HPC cluster when there is not sufficient Matlab licenses

The TotalCAE suite resolves this issue with the following features:

1. Ensures Matlab jobs stay queued and do not start until sufficient licenses are available.
2. Dynamically calculates the required number of Matlab licenses for the job.
3. Does not require any modification to the application or cluster.

There are two TotalCAE tools that work in tandem: TotalCAE Submission Filter (TSF) and the TotalCAE Activation Filter (TAF). TSF adds in the required Matlab license information to the job as it enters the HPC Server batch system from Matlab. TAF checks the Matlab FLEXlm™ application licenses required calculated by TSF, and will postpone the job until the required application licenses are available.

TotalCAE Suite Enables Matlab License Aware Scheduling

Enabling the dynamic license calculation is a one click setup with the TotalCAE Submission Filter like below:

TotalCAE TSF Calculates Required Matlab Licenses

Jobs will automatically have Matlab license information injected into the job when they enter the cluster as in the example below:

Matlab Licenses Added to HPC Server Job

The TotalCAE Activation Filter also is a 5 minute configuration, running a simple Wizard and then clicking the test button configures the HPC cluster for Matlab license aware scheduling:

Activation Filter Matlab Configuration

With the TotalCAE suite installed, the end users can open Matlab pools, and not worry about not having sufficient Matlab licenses:

Opening a Matlab Pool with TotalCAE License Aware Scheduling

Getting More Information

Download a free two week trial and the
TotalCAE Suite Matlab Integration Guide [PDF] .

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TotalCAE Activation Filter 3.4 released. Now with After Hours support

Monday, October 15th, 2012

The TotalCAE Activation Filter for HPC Server 2008 R2 now includes After Hours Support. This allows jobs submitted to the after hours queue to only be considered for scheduling Monday through Friday when after hours is reached, or on the weekend.

All current customers on active maintenance can download this release at no charge.

-Rod

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TotalCAE Activation Filter 3.3 now supports Reprise (RLM) licensed applications

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

The TotalCAE Activation Filter (TAF) prevents HPC compute jobs from running if there are not sufficient solver licenses available. In addition to our existing FLEXlm, LSTC, and LM-X support, TAF version 3.3 adds in support for the Reprise RLM licensed applications such as Witness and Converge.

Other new features of version TAF 3.3:

1. Tune-able license cache for applications that take a while to pull licenses before they start.
2. Reprise (RLM) licensed application support.
3. New DEPENDSONANY job dependency support that enables a HPC job to wait until other job(s) are in the finished, failed, or cancelled state.

Tags: Activation Filter, Reprise, Witness
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TotalCAE Exhibiting at the LSTC 12th International LS-DYNA Users Conference

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

TotalCAE will be exhibiting the TotalCAE Portal and Activation Filter that support LS-DYNA on Microsoft HPC Server and Azure, as well as our HPC Linux and Windows cluster solutions for LS-DYNA at the LSTC 12th International LS-DYNA Users Conference.

Come visit us at the booth and enter to win a free HP Laptop!

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HPC Server 2008 R2 – Job Is Being Held by the Activation Filter

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

The TAF HPC Server Activation Filter will print a message that allows the engineer to see why a job is not running when they get the message “Job Being Held by Activation Filter Until …”.

For example, there may not be sufficient licenses for the application, or the job was requested to be postponed, or a higher priority job is requesting the same licenses. See the screenshot below:

JobManager - Not Enough Licenses Job Held by Activation Filter

By default, the HPC Job Manager does not show the “Progress Message” column. To enable the Progress Message column right click on the column header (like on “Pending Reason”), choose “Column Chooser”, and then highlight “Progress Message” as one of the columns. Click the “Add” button to move it to the right side, which is the list of displayed columns.

See the screenshot below:

HPC Server JobManager Column Chooser

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TotalCAE Activation Filter 3.2 for HPC Server 2008 R2 released

Monday, November 7th, 2011

TotalCAE, a leading global provider of HPC technology solutions and IT services for engineers, today announced the release of TotalCAE Activation Filter 3.2 (TAF) for Microsoft HPC Server.

TAF enables license aware scheduling on Microsoft HPC Server 2008 R2 for FlexLM, LM-X, LSTC licensed applications, and other extended functionality required for many types of technical computing applications.

“With TAF 3.2, we have extended support to LM-X to support Altair solvers, and added priority based scheduling that takes into account application license requirements, along with other improvements for our customers.” said TotalCAE Principal Rodney Mach.

New in TAF Activation Filter 3.2

Activation Filter support for LM-X license manager, used by Altair and other vendors
License aware priority scheduling
Job Manager Feedback Data for Held Jobs
LSTC license server support for license reporting webpage – Enhanced
Automatic tuning of HPC Server 2008 R2 settings for CAE/CFD license best practices

For additional detail and a complete listing of the new features, enhancements and improvements offered within TAF 3.2, visit the TAF homepage

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TotalCAE Activation Filter for HPC Server 2008 R2 Video Available

Monday, October 17th, 2011

The TotalCAE Activation Filter is now on the TotalCAE YouTube channel.

Below is a demonstration:

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TotalCAE 3.1 Activation Filter for HPC Server Released – Virtual Features, License Reporting and More

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

TotalCAE, a leading global provider of HPC technology solutions and IT services for engineers, today announced the release of TotalCAE Activation Filter 3.1 (TAF) for Microsoft HPC Server.

TAF enables license aware scheduling on Microsoft HPC Server 2008 R2, and other extended functionality required for many types of technical computing applications.

“With TAF 3.1, we have added even more advanced functionality including support for virtual features, license reporting, and enabled enterprise three tier redudant license support in the community edition.” said TotalCAE Principal Rodney Mach.

Virtual Features – New in 3.1
Applications like ANSYS Mechanical allow an application to start if multiple different FLEXlm features have sufficient tokens. For example if there are enough ANSYS licenses, OR enough ANE3 licenses.

Virtual Feature Support - ANSYS Mechanical

License Reporting – New in 3.1
Engineers like to see the available licenses from all FLExlm and other 3rd party license servers, TAF now can generate these HTML or XML reports for users to see the current license count

For additional detail and a complete listing of the new features, enhancements and improvements offered within TAF 3.1, visit the TAF homepage

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TotalCAE will be at the 2011 ANSYS Regional Conference at the Westin Southfield Detroit.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

TotalCAE will be at the 2011 ANSYS Regional Conference at the Westin Southfield Detroit, come see us in the HP booth to discuss our tools, portals, and IT services for ANSYS on both Windows HPC Server and Linux.

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