1.1. Overview of Elastic Licensing

Ansys Elastic Licensing is a "pay-per-use" licensing system that enables hourly-based licensing of virtually every Ansys product through a single product offering called Ansys Elastic Unit (AEU). Ansys Elastic Licensing complements other licensing solutions from Ansys by providing you with on-demand access to core portfolio of pre-post, solver, and HPC simulation solutions. You only pay for what you use, allowing you to efficiently meet fluctuating licensing demands throughout the year, while accommodating high usage periods associated with critical new projects. You simply buy a number of AEUs and from this "pool" as you consume them. Each Ansys product consumes a number of these AEUs per hour.

You can see the number of AEUs consumed by each product in the elastic license rate table. For information on viewing this table, see Viewing License Entitlements.

Summary of New and Changed Features

Listed below is a summary of those licensing items that are either new or have been changed since the last release. For a list of all major new and changed features of any product, see the Release Notes document for that product.

  • The Web Assignments and Transactions table column widths are automatically resized based on contents.

  • Included a new Web Assignments user interface for both Shared and Named User.

  • The overall licensing experience has been enhanced to provide improved performance, stability and security.

  • The Licensing Portal Export Active Server history has been updated to include all servers.