Client preparation

A client is any machine that will run analyses. No files need to be installed on the client; all files can be mounted remotely from the server.

Prerequisite software packages

Prerequisite standard software packages are required, but may not be installed on your computer. They can be found on your installation media or you can electronically download them from your Linux vendor. While the installation does not require these packages at install time, they are needed by the client at runtime.

Tip: If you have a client software image, you can get these packages added to the image.

Distribution and version	Required packages
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.8	libgomp libgfortran44
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.2 (or higher)	libgomp libgfortran

Mount the target directory

The client requires read-only access to the target directory, at the same absolute path as on the server.

Set the environment

Source the file mfclient.env (in the target directory) into your shell. This sets variables necessary for the software to check out a license.

Example: The client has mounted the target directory as /software/autodesk. Run the . (dot) command to source the commands into your shell:

$ . /software/autodesk/mfclient.env

Tip: If you have custom job management software, you can have it source the same file to prepare the environment before it runs jobs.

Run analyses

You can now run solvers from the command line.