Setting Up and Using a Compute Server License

If you have purchased one or more Gurobi Compute Server licenses, you'll need to perform a few setup steps in order to start your Compute Servers. Once started, client machines will be able to offload the work of solving an optimization model onto these servers. The clients and the Compute Servers can run any mix of supported operating systems. Thus, for example, multiple Linux machines could submit jobs to a pair of Compute Servers, one running Windows and the other running Linux. Any machine that can reach the Compute Server(s) over your network can be a client (including the Compute Servers themselves).

There are a few steps involved in setting up such licenses. The first is to retrieve your license key. The key should be installed on the machine that will act as a Compute Server. Once you have your key, you will need to start Gurobi Remote Services. Finally, client machines will need a Compute Server client license in order to find the Compute Server(s).

Note that if you are setting up a machine as a client of an existing Compute Server, you just need to create a Compute Server client license.