Floating Licences
When using a Feko legacy installation, a floating licence scheme can be set up to allow a limited number of licences to be shared among users.
Apart from the machine code of each licence, all the information displayed for node-locked a licence is also applicable to floating licences. For both floating and node-locked licences, a line with a green background indicates a preferred licence and a line with a light blue background indicates a licence that is in use.
For each licence that is in use, the table displays the user and hostname where this licence is used, and the Parallel column indicates how many solver instances are available. If a user has a 16-node licence, he may start two concurrent 8-process parallel jobs, but not an 8-process job and a 10-process job.
In addition, expanding the licence shows information on when the licence was checked out and what components are in use. The user and hostname to which each component has been checked out to, as well as the process ID (PID), is shown for each component. This allows each component process to be uniquely identified and located for administrative and tracking purposes. It is possible to manually check in a licence to make it available for a new user.