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Make Simulation Applications Accessible with the COMSOL Server™ Product

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Software for Distributing, Managing, and Running Applications Built with COMSOL Multiphysics®

The COMSOL Server™ product helps you spread the benefits of simulation throughout your organisation. As the platform for deploying and running applications built by your in-house simulation experts, COMSOL Server™ enables you to streamline the R&D workflow, efficiently share knowledge and analyses across departments, and rapidly respond to customers' needs.

The web interface for COMSOL Server™ comes with administrative tools that enable your organisation to manage access to the applications you have uploaded, user accounts, user groups, and multiprocessor utilisation. Administrator-verified end users can upload, access, and run applications housed in the Application Library of COMSOL Server™ through web browsers or a desktop-installed client.

Why Do I Need COMSOL Server™?
  • To better serve colleagues and customers
  • To enhance and streamline the design and development workflow and speed up time-to-market
  • To efficiently share knowledge and analyses among team members and across departments
Who Needs COMSOL Server™?

IT departments centralising simulation resources for:

  • Simulation specialists
  • Design teams
  • R&D teams
  • Manufacturing departments
  • Colleagues and customers of simulation experts
  • Test laboratories
  • Vendors to companies that use simulation
  • Professors, researchers, and students
  • And more
What Do I Get in COMSOL Server™?
  • Administrator tools for creating and managing user accounts and app usage
  • The same powerful simulation technology as found in the COMSOL Multiphysics®software
  • Web interface for accessing apps from a web browser
  • A worldwide license with unlimited access to parallel processing on clusters
  • Licensing options for a cost-effective way to run COMSOL apps
Where Is COMSOL Server™ Installed?

Wherever you install software for your organisation, including:

  • Your organization's server
  • Clusters
  • Virtual private clouds
  • Desktop or laptop computers
  • Anywhere that can be accessed via the internet or your network
What Is the Difference Between COMSOL Server™ and COMSOL Compiler™?
 

COMSOL Server™

Compiled Standalone Application

Run on cluster

Yes

No

User access control

Yes

No (the application author can password protect, set expiration date, and lock to a hostid)

Version control (to latest version)

Yes

No (the standalone application is a self-contained entity after compilation)

Run from browser

Yes

No

COMSOL® paid-for license required

Yes

No

An Integral Part of the Simulation, Design, and Manufacturing Workflow

When the simulation experts in an organisation 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 organisation 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 organisation needs COMSOL Server™.

Each simulation application has its own customised 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 organisation — even those without prior simulation experience.

The simulation expert brings theoretical knowledge and the power of simulation to the optimisation 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.

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 organisation.

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 centralised 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.

Run Your Applications Locally, Over Your Organisation's Network, or Anywhere in the World

Applications are easy to use and with COMSOL Server™, they are easy to access, deploy, and share, too. You can install the COMSOL Server™ software anywhere you would like. Typically, COMSOL Server™ is installed on a server or cluster within your organisation's network, but it can also be installed for offline or personal use on a laptop or desktop computer.

Applications are run through any popular web browser, such as the Google Chrome™, Firefox®, Internet Explorer®, Microsoft Edge®, or Safari® browsers. You do not need any plugins to run an application, yet you get immediate access to interactive 1D, 2D, and 3D graphics. On native Windows® operating systems, you can also run applications from an installed thin desktop client, COMSOL Client for Windows®, which can be downloaded for free from the Product Download page. If your application was built using components from one of the LiveLink™ products for CAD and it requires a connection to the third-party CAD program, then you need the desktop client.

While the Application Builder requires the Windows® version of COMSOL Multiphysics® to build applications, COMSOL Server™ is more flexible. You can run applications on Windows®, Linux®, and macOS platforms, as well as any operating system that supports most web browsers.

Administrate and Run Your Applications with Ease

As the administrator, you have complete control over your organisation's applications, including who can access and run them, via the web interface in COMSOL Server™. The main dashboard presents available applications in a straightforward Application Library format. From here, it is easy to launch applications and control their permissions within your organisation.

Different menu items on the dashboard lead you to interfaces for monitoring your CPU and memory usage and controlling your sessions that are running applications. If COMSOL Server™ has been installed on several computers, the primary server's web interface gives you an overview of all user sessions across all secondary servers.

You can create and control user accounts and user groups, either on the fly or by linking to preexisting user databases on your network based on either Active Directory by Microsoft® or LDAP. From the level of an administrator or power user, you can also set permissions for user groups and grant Application Library access to users so that they can upload and edit applications. Other tools allow you to control where applications can be run using multiple cores or clusters, or restricted to a one-application-per-core basis.

Want to customise the web interface and your applications to match your organisation's branding? Easy-to-use tools enable you to make the Application Library in COMSOL Server™, the applications that you run, and the web interface all your own.

Flexible Licensing Options to Achieve a Range of Simulation Goals

After you have installed COMSOL Server™, you decide who can access and run applications on it. COMSOL Server™ incorporates favourable licensing to allow maximum and flexible use.

You can allow access to multiple users within your organisation or, if you wish, your external vendors, clients, partners, or customers. You can also grant access to your applications and allow users to run them on your COMSOL Server™ license from anywhere in the world. You can even host your license on a virtual private cloud (VPC) and be paid for use of your applications and license of COMSOL Server™ by third parties. COMSOL Server™ supports the same set of add-on products and modules as COMSOL Multiphysics® does.

If you want to distribute applications for teaching and academic research purposes, then COMSOL Server™ is also tailored to your needs. COMSOL continuously supports academic research through the use of simulation. In fact, we consider simulation applications made by students, researchers, and faculty to be publications for the academic world, similar to papers and articles published by universities and journals. An application provides a more sophisticated presentation of a simulation model than merely placing figures and graphs into an article — and we believe it should be made available to your colleagues. This includes allowing them to view and run your applications on your institution's Academic Server License, even if they do not belong to your institution.

Every business and every simulation need is different.

In order to fully evaluate whether or not the COMSOL Multiphysics® software will meet your requirements, you need to contact us. By talking to one of our sales representatives, you will get personalised recommendations and fully documented examples to help you get the most out of your evaluation and guide you to choose the best license option to suit your needs.

Fill in your contact details and any specific comments or questions, and submit. You will receive a response from a sales representative within one business day.

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