Applications are easy to use and with COMSOL Server™, they are easy to access, deploy, and share, too. You can install the COMSOL Server™ software anywhere you would like. Typically, COMSOL Server™ is installed on a server or cluster within your organization's network, but it can also be installed for offline or personal use on a laptop or desktop computer
Applications are run through any popular web browser, such as the Google Chrome™, Firefox®, Internet Explorer®, Microsoft Edge®, or Safari® browsers. You do not need any plugins to run an application, yet you get immediate access to interactive 1D, 2D, and 3D graphics. On native Windows® operating systems, you can also run applications from an installed thin desktop client, COMSOL Client for Windows®, which can be downloaded for free from the Product Download page. If your application was built using components from one of the LiveLink™ products for CAD and it requires a connection to the third-party CAD program, then you need the desktop client.
While the Application Builder requires the Windows® version of COMSOL Multiphysics® to build applications, COMSOL Server™ is more flexible. You can run applications on Windows®, Linux®, and macOS platforms, as well as any operating system that supports most web browsers.
A simulation app created with the Application Builder is running in a browser.
Administrate and Run Your Applications with Ease
As the administrator, you have complete control over your organization's applications, including who can access and run them, via the web interface in COMSOL Server™. The main dashboard presents available applications in a straightforward Application Library format. From here, it is easy to launch applications and control their permissions within your organization.
Different menu items on the dashboard lead you to interfaces for monitoring your CPU and memory usage and controlling your sessions that are running applications. If COMSOL Server™ has been installed on several computers, the primary server's web interface gives you an overview of all user sessions across all secondary servers.
You can create and control user accounts and user groups, either on the fly or by linking to preexisting user databases on your network based on either Active Directory by Microsoft® or LDAP. From the level of an administrator or power user, you can also set permissions for user groups and grant Application Library access to users so that they can upload and edit applications. Other tools allow you to control where applications can be run using multiple cores or clusters, or restricted to a one-application-per-core basis.
Want to customize the web interface and your applications to match your organization's branding? Easy-to-use tools enable you to make the Application Library in COMSOL Server™, the applications that you run, and the web interface all your own.