Each node, or computer, in the HPC needs read access to the Thin Client installation. Either run the Thin Client installer on each node, or ask your system administrator to run it once on a shared disk and export it, read-only for, mounting on each node.
The folder called autodesk-dssp-2017-thinclient contains the Simulation Job Manager (SJM). This folder cannot be shared between clients because the SJM needs to create database and temporary files that are specific to each client on which it is started. Copy this folder to a filesystem that is local to each client. You can copy the folder to a local node as part of the execution scripts.
The solvers are threaded, not Message Passing Interface (MPI) enabled, and use as many threads as are physically present on the execution machine, by default. For jobs that spawn child jobs, such as DoE, Optimization, or Runner Balance Studies, the SJM can distribute these child studies to other nodes, in order to spread the workload.
Your cluster should include a number of possibly identical hosts, or nodes, each with its own address, and each running the same version of Linux. The cluster is fire-walled from outside communication, with the exception of outgoing licensing requests (ADLM) and incoming file transfer requests. Nodes within the cluster either are not fire-walled, or can have ports opened on demand. Please see the additional notes associated with using Portable Batch System (PBS).