Users and/or the PIs are going to be required to sign an academic license agreement this year to confirm there will be no commercial use of the software, further details will be provided directly by email. In the meantime please ignore anylicense expiration countdown messages appearing in the output files. When it is complete another message will be posted here.
O Jan 7, 2019: The annual renewal process of the free abaqus license seats expiring is underway and handled by Sharcnet. Any jobs that were still running at jan18 midnight were killed and need to be resubmitted. O Jan 18, 2019: The sharcnet license renewal has been renewed until 1 and license server restarted with the new keys. WARNING: If the required tokens are not available when a job starts, the job must be manually killed then resubmitted to the queue otherwise it will sit idle until the specified maximum job -r runtime is reached. To give everyone a chance running Abaqus on sharcnet for free, the license server limits research groups to 15 of 16 abaqus tokens and each researcher to 10 of 16 tokens by November the license server research group limit will be adjusted to 15 of 21 free abaqus tokens while the researcher limit will be 10 of 21 free tokens.
New abaqus users must submit a problem ticket to request joining the abaqus group otherwise the software will not be accessible. The abaqusstat command maybe used to check how many tokens are in use as described in the Documentation (click link below). Submit a problem ticket if this is of interest, sharcnet will then contact the company and handle all details of purchasing the license you want, following this the PI will be invoiced. Sharcnet covers the base license cost which is non-trivial.
The approximate 2018 cost is $100 per compute token plus $360 per user gui seat plus applicable taxes. Research groups can purchase dedicated tokens to be hosted on the Sharcnet Abaqus Academic Researach license server. Details for configuring abaqus to connect to either the sharcnet or western license are provided in the Documentation wiki link below. Researchers located at Western have the option of using the Western site license for running jobs on sharcnet machines located at Western with special arrangement. Jan-2018: Once again 2 CAE seats and 21 standard abaqus execute compute license tokens are FREELY available (on a first come first serve basis) for use on any sharcnet machine.
Sharcnet covers the entire base license but provides very few free tokens, adding additional tokens is relatively cheap. If this of interest send an email to and indicate the number of tokens you require or indicate the maximum cores/jobs needed for simultaneous computing. Part2) Research groups can purchase additional licenses to add to the existing license pool for preferential/priority access. Research groups from ANY Compute Canada institution can use the license on any Sharcnet hardware including Graham. New users will need to submit a ticket to Compute Canada to request to sign the agreement before being permitted to use the license. Previous users will be emailed soon to request signing the agreement. Users and/or the PIs are going to be required to sign an academic license agreement this year to confirm there will be no commercial use of the software.
Jan-2019: Part1) The sharcnet Abaqus license has been renewed until 1.