tallface65 mentioned some time back a bug in HFSS 14.0 which prevents frequency sweeps in parallel without a Distributed Solve Option (DSO) license, which was fixed in HFSS 14.01. See:
https://www.edaboard.com/thread254566.html
Does anyone know if that bug was introduced in 14, or if its in 13.0 or 13.02 too? I seem to get the same problem on HFSS 13.02. Here is how I configured HFSS 13.02 I get the feeling what I'm doing here does require a DSO license, and so fails and there is no way out of it. Getting a DSO license is out of the question due to financial reasons. This is what the license I have permits
If anyone (especially tallface65) can show me how to set up HFSS 13.0, 13.02 or 14.0 (but not 14.01) optimally to make use of multiple cores on one machine, with an HPC license, but without needing a DSO license, I would appreciate it. BTW, in the above example, 192.168.1.200 is the local host. I know it is possible to just write 'localhost' there, but I tried using the IP address too, in the vague hope that would work, but it did not.
This is how I set up the HFSS options.
Are these optimal, given I don't have a DSO license?
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