Setting up a compute server
Important note: most Gurobi licenses do not use the compute server.
You should only follow these instructions if your gurobi.lic
file contains the line CSENABLED=1.
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).
We should note that our distributed parallel tuning feature allows any machine to be configured as a restricted compute server. These special Gurobi compute servers don't require a Gurobi license. The only jobs they will accept are tuning jobs. To set up a restricted compute server, you should follow the instructions for setting up a standard compute server, but you can ignore any step that involves a license file.
Your next step depends on the types of machines you will be using as your compute servers. Instructions are available for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS.
Compute server clients also require licenses, but you can generate the required license files yourself. Consult the client license section for details.
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