Apart from our Subscription Packages which offer combinations of products and modules selected by DHI, Perpetual Licenses (Professional and Essential) are also available if you prefer to build your own software portfolio. A brief introduction to our Perpetual Licenses license options is given below. For more detail (including pricing information), please contact your local DHI office.
All Perpetual Licenses are issued as a floating type, allowing members of your modelling team concurrent access to the purchased licenses from a license server (with hardware lock). A floating license can also be configured as a local license if preferred. All Perpetual Licenses also include the first 12 months of technical support and updates (SMA), and no limitations apply to the size of models that can be built (i.e. the number of cells, elements, cross-sections or pipes).
With a Professional License, you get fully featured software and optimum productivity for your team. All DHI’s products and modules are available for purchase on a Professional license, and each ‘seat’ purchased comes with four concurrent simulations of the engine(s) associated with that product or module (except FEFLOW, where a Professional License allows unlimited concurrent simulations of models utilising the same mesh). Professional Licenses are also available as an Internet License, saving the money and man-power typically associated with establishing and maintaining a license server.
Many MIKE modules can utilise computer parallelisation techniques, and Professional licenses are delivered with 16-core capability (each concurrent simulation can utilise up to 16 CPU cores). Compute capability for these modules is set to Unlimited cores on a Professional License while SMA is valid (similarly, for those modules that can utilise GPU computing hardware, Professional SMA provides free access to GPU). In addition to technical support and updates, having Professional SMA also provides further benefits including volume discounts, priority access to DHI’s online services, and bonus modules that DHI no longer sells (e.g. MIKE Animator Plus).
University licenses are strictly limited to educational and research purposes only. University licenses are granted a 50% discount on the Professional list price (purchase and SMA).