| Re: Multiple IDL versions [message #40514] |
Mon, 16 August 2004 01:55  |
Nigel Wade
Messages: 286
Registered: March 1998
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:49:02 -0700, Joe wrote:
> Nigel Wade wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:56:15 -0700, Joe wrote:
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>>> Hello all-
>>>
>>> Is there a way to run multiple versions of IDL at the same time (by
>>> the same user)?
>>>
>>> When I run IDL 6.0 in one xterm and then try to run IDL 5.4 in
>>> another xterm, it says no license is available.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Joe
>>
>> If both instances are run on the same system, by the same user and
>> output to the same display they should share a license. I don't
>> actually have 5.4 to test that version, but I can run 5.3 and 6.0, and
>> 5.5 and 6.0 simultaneously and it only uses the "6" floating licenses
>> of a single instance of IDL.
>>
>> At least that is the case with floating licenses, I'm not sure about
>> node locked licenses.
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> Ahh. That must be why it doesn't work for me. We use node-locked. :(
>
> When you do that with floating licenses, does it actually use 2 licenses
> then?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Joe
No, only 1 (effective) license is used, shared by both sessions.
Floating licenses are accounted in some strange way. We have "400"
floating licenses. An interactive session from sgi IRIX uses "10"
licenses, a similar session from Linux uses only "6" licenses. I don't
know if the accounting scheme has any sensible basis or is an arbitrary
scheme thought up during someones coffee break.
--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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| Re: Multiple IDL versions [message #40531 is a reply to message #40526] |
Fri, 13 August 2004 01:21  |
Nigel Wade
Messages: 286
Registered: March 1998
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:56:15 -0700, Joe wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> Is there a way to run multiple versions of IDL at the same time (by the
> same user)?
>
> When I run IDL 6.0 in one xterm and then try to run IDL 5.4 in another
> xterm, it says no license is available.
>
> Thanks!
> -Joe
If both instances are run on the same system, by the same user and output
to the same display they should share a license. I don't actually have 5.4
to test that version, but I can run 5.3 and 6.0, and 5.5 and 6.0
simultaneously and it only uses the "6" floating licenses of a single
instance of IDL.
At least that is the case with floating licenses, I'm not sure about node
locked licenses.
--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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| Re: Multiple IDL versions [message #40559 is a reply to message #40514] |
Wed, 18 August 2004 15:15 |
Melissa A. Jackson
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2003
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Node-locked licenses will allow multiple idl versions to run at same time as
long as same user, display, and host.
There was a problem in IDL 5.4 that is addressed by IDL 5.4.1.
See techtip 3217 on www.rsinc.com.
http://www.rsinc.com/services/techtip.asp?db=INT&ttid=32 17
-Melissa
RSI
"Nigel Wade" <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.08.16.08.55.29.51043@ion.le.ac.uk...
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:49:02 -0700, Joe wrote:
>
>> Nigel Wade wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:56:15 -0700, Joe wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all-
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to run multiple versions of IDL at the same time (by
>>>> the same user)?
>>>>
>>>> When I run IDL 6.0 in one xterm and then try to run IDL 5.4 in
>>>> another xterm, it says no license is available.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> -Joe
>>>
>>> If both instances are run on the same system, by the same user and
>>> output to the same display they should share a license. I don't
>>> actually have 5.4 to test that version, but I can run 5.3 and 6.0, and
>>> 5.5 and 6.0 simultaneously and it only uses the "6" floating licenses
>>> of a single instance of IDL.
>>>
>>> At least that is the case with floating licenses, I'm not sure about
>>> node locked licenses.
>>
>>
>> Ahh. That must be why it doesn't work for me. We use node-locked. :(
>>
>> When you do that with floating licenses, does it actually use 2 licenses
>> then?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Joe
>
> No, only 1 (effective) license is used, shared by both sessions.
>
> Floating licenses are accounted in some strange way. We have "400"
> floating licenses. An interactive session from sgi IRIX uses "10"
> licenses, a similar session from Linux uses only "6" licenses. I don't
> know if the accounting scheme has any sensible basis or is an arbitrary
> scheme thought up during someones coffee break.
>
> --
> Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
> University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
> E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
> Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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| Re: Multiple IDL versions [message #40613 is a reply to message #40559] |
Sat, 21 August 2004 09:05 |
jgd42-google
Messages: 3
Registered: August 2004
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Junior Member |
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"Melissa A. Jackson" wrote:
> Node-locked licenses will allow multiple idl versions to run at same time as
> long as same user, display, and host.
>
> There was a problem in IDL 5.4 that is addressed by IDL 5.4.1.
>
> See techtip 3217 on www.rsinc.com.
>
> http://www.rsinc.com/services/techtip.asp?db=INT&ttid=32 17
That did it!
Thank you Melissa and Nigel for your help!
-Joe
>
> -Melissa
> RSI
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> "Nigel Wade" wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:49:02 -0700, Joe wrote:
>>
>>> Nigel Wade wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:56:15 -0700, Joe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hello all-
>>>> >
>>>> > Is there a way to run multiple versions of IDL at the same time (by
>>>> > the same user)?
>>>> >
>>>> > When I run IDL 6.0 in one xterm and then try to run IDL 5.4 in
>>>> > another xterm, it says no license is available.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks!
>>>> > -Joe
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