When the simulation experts in an organization turn their models into applications, the overall simulation, design, and manufacturing workflow improves. The simulation expert no longer has to rerun the same or slightly different analyses for other collaborators or customers and the organization can spread the advantages of simulation to a larger group of people. To build their own computational applications, your simulation experts need COMSOL Multiphysics® with its built-in Application Builder. To make these applications accessible to many people at a fraction of the cost, your organization needs COMSOL Server™.
Each simulation application has its own customized user interface, where the application creator can control the inputs and outputs that the application user can apply and manipulate. Experts create these apps by including only the parameters relevant to the design of a specific process or product. This better transfers the simulation expert’s knowledge and experience to the people involved in the design and manufacturing processes across all engineering disciplines in an organization — even those without prior simulation experience.
The simulation expert brings theoretical knowledge and the power of simulation to the optimization of a design or process. Other project stakeholders can then bring their own experiences of building or operating these designs and processes to the overall workflow by using the simulation application and, potentially, providing feedback to the simulation expert aruba acdx.
To make such an augmented workflow a reality, the applications need to be easy to distribute, access, and run. COMSOL Server™ is the product for deploying applications and bringing them to the hands of colleagues and team members. It is also the hub for managing many different applications over multiple functions or operations in an organization.
Scale Your Computational Resources and Easily Maintain Applications
COMSOL Server™ has exactly the same computational demands per user as COMSOL Multiphysics®. Through applications, COMSOL Server™ gives users access to the same powerful simulation technology that is found in COMSOL Multiphysics®.
All users logged into the COMSOL Server™ product can run applications on the computer where it is installed. Alternatively, the load can be distributed by installing COMSOL Server™ to run applications on multiple computers. In that case, one computer is set as the primary server for handling user account and access management, and a series of other computers are used for computations, called secondary servers. It is also possible to have multiple sets of primary and secondary servers, all controlled by a single license manager, which is useful if you have teams that want to only use the computational resources that are allocated for them.
When a user runs an application via the web browser or COMSOL Client, their own computer or mobile device does not need to perform the multiphysics calculations. These can all be done on the server computer(s). Since you are controlling the access and use of applications through a centralized hub, any changes or updates you make are immediately available to all users. You can run up to four application sessions per concurrent user.
By using cluster computing technology with COMSOL Server™, it is possible to configure applications to run on a variety of cluster architectures. For applications designed to distribute the computational workload, computations can be run in parallel for large parametric sweeps or large models. A COMSOL Server™ license is enabled out-of-the-box for an unlimited number of cores and compute nodes without extra licensing fees.
