Lumerical on Caviness

Lumerical requires user(s) to purchase a license in order to gain access to the license server to actually use the software. This requires some amount of setup for each workgroup to do in order to use Lumerical on Caviness. Unlike the traditional way of configuring the license for Lumerical software, One has to set an environment variable i.e., LM_LICENSE_FILE to the license server "path" (<port>@<hostname>') in order to use the Lumerical software. This is done as follows. The VALET packages for Lumerical are available to everyone on Caviness, and will load as expected. However, in order to use the different Lumerical packages, it will only work if the appropriate license server <port>@<hostname>'' information is defined as provided upon purchasing a license.

$ vpkg_versions lumerical-fdtd
 
Available versions in package (* = default version):
 
[/opt/shared/valet/2.1/etc/lumerical-fdtd.vpkg_yaml]
lumerical-fdtd  High performance FDTD-method Maxwell solver
  8.21.1781     alias to lumerical-fdtd/2019a-R1
* 2019a-R1      release 2019a R1 (8.21.1781)

$ vpkg_versions lumerical-mode
 
Available versions in package (* = default version):
 
[/opt/shared/valet/2.1/etc/lumerical-mode.vpkg_yaml]
lumerical-mode  Comprehensive Optical Waveguide Design Environment
  7.13.1781     alias to lumerical-mode/2019a-R1
* 2019a-R1      release 2019a R1 (7.13.1781)