About Licensing for Design Exploration Studies

Design exploration studies can involve tens, hundreds, or thousands of individual simulations, also known as "design points." In these studies, you might automate a series of design points with different values for selected parameters, or you might vary parameters as part of a design optimization.

When you run the same simulation multiple times outside of a design exploration study, the licensing cost is the same for each run. However, when you run multiple simulations as part of a design exploration, every subsequent simulation has a reduced cost. This approach enables you to run a study with multiple design points without incurring the full licensing cost of running each simulation individually.

The license model for design exploration includes three components that determine the licensing cost: your role, the design exploration compute layer, and the design exploration management layer.

• Suitable role: Enables you to set up the model and drive the analysis for a design exploration.
• Design exploration compute layer: Determines the licensing cost for each design point in the study. Each doubling of the number of design points increases the licensing cost but does not double it.
• Design exploration management layer: Determines the licensing cost when you want to run multiple simultaneous design points. The design exploration management layer enables you to run up to four simultaneous design points for no additional licensing cost beyond what you are paying to run the simulations on the design exploration compute layer. If you want to run more than four design points simultaneously, you can license them in batches of four.

For more information about how token usage and licensing consumption depends on the number of design cycles in your study, see SIMULIA Design Exploration Attenuation Licensing.