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Is the license restricted to a certain CPU, and: what is the difference between a node-locked and a floating license?

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A license can either be bound to a single node (= "node locked license") or to a dedicated license server (= "floating license").

A floating license allows a flexible administration and usage as it ishosted by a server and distributed to compute clients on demand. Such a servermay manage the license requests for hundreds or thousands of software clients.

A node-locked license on the other hand is much more restricted as it can be used only on one pre-defined machine.

In any case, irrespective of the mode of the license, it is not limited to a certain number of users but to the number of concurrent processes. For example, if you have two licenses, at one time only two processes can be running - irrespective of the number of CPUs.

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