The installation instructions above can also be followed for clusters. COMSOL supports shared-memory parallelism and distributed-memory parallelism on macOS with Apple silicon. For details on system requirements, including additional software packages required for certain configurations, see www.comsol.com/system-requirements.

COMSOL Multiphysics requires a Floating Network License for running on clusters. Please check the license file for the CLUSTERNODE feature, which needs to be present to enable the cluster computing functionality. The license manager needs to be accessible from all nodes in the cluster. Therefore it is often a good idea to have it run on the head node.

If you work on a computer that is not on the cluster, install COMSOL Multiphysics on that computer. Typically, you use a scheduler to launch jobs on the cluster. Make sure the scheduler client software is installed on that computer. You can configure the installation to use the scheduler by changing the comsol.ini file according to the section on MPI Options in the COMSOL Multiphysics Reference Manual.

For more information on installing and running COMSOL on clusters, see Running COMSOL on Clusters and the COMSOL Multiphysics Reference Manual.