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[sefotron]

Hi all,

This may be the weirdest question of the forum, but I need a response in order to purchase a specific license of PGI C++. Scenario: I need a specific C++ program to be run in three equal isolated machines, i.e. A, B and C with no network towards/from them. A, B and C must run its own binaries. Therefore, they cannot share licenses/anything through network. In order to compile this program and have binaries running on all three machines...

option a: I need to buy 3 licenses of PGI C++ compiler, install 3 instances of PGI C++ compiler (one per machine), compile each source program on each machine and run the binaries.

option b: I need to buy 1 license of PGI C++ compiler, install this instance on machine A, compile sources and, via a thumbdrive, copy binaries from A to B and C (A, B and C have identical hardware/software).

If there is any other option, please, let me know. Thank you in advance!

[mkcolg]

Hi sefotron,

We don't have any run time licensing so you'd only need to purchase licenses for the systems that you are building on. So option b would work.

Note that our compilers are able to cross-compile, i.e. target an architecture other than the one it's being built for (via the -tp flag) so the build system's hardware need not be the same as the target system. Though, the general OS (Linux, Windows, MacOSX) does need to be the same.

Hope this helps,
Mat

[sefotron]

Thank you a lot, mkcolg! I will start right now the purchase process at my university. :) (I am an academic purchaser).