A brief overview
Altair has introduced Hosted HyperWorks Units (HHWU), a cloud-based license server solution, to HyperWorks versions 12.0 and beyond. This integration offers customers the flexibility to either utilize a traditional on-premise license server or leverage an Altair-hosted server managed through Altair Connect, the company’s Global Customer Portal.
With Hosted HyperWorks Units (HHWU), users can access licenses from anywhere, as long as they have internet connectivity.
Authorization for license usage is granted to client computers or individual users. Typically, individual users authorize their own machines and user/login accounts. In cases where a single machine is shared among multiple users, there can be multiple authorizations for each user, or alternatively, a system administrator may authorize the entire machine for all users.
The key distinction between these two authorization methods lies in accounting and management. If an individual user authorizes a machine, de-authorization may apply only to that specific individual, leaving other users authorized. Conversely, with a ‘system-wide’ authorization, de-authorization affects the entire machine, revoking access for all users.
System-wide authorizations are primarily used for compute clusters. Since it’s unpredictable which machines in the cluster a particular user may utilize at runtime, administrators opt to authorize the entire machine for all users. Although usage log files still record usernames, the authorization applies universally to all users of the machine.
It is important to note that only Windows and Linux systems can support HHWU.