InstallationAndSetup.pdf

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Chapter 2:

Installation and Setup

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

The following are the recommended specifications.

Category

Minimum

Recommended

Processor

500 MHz (Pentium 2)

3 GHz (Pentium 4 or

Athlon)

Operating

System

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Windows 2000

Windows XP Pro SP2

Additional

software

Digital Visual Fortran 5

Compaq Visual Fortran 6.x

Intel Visual Fortran 9.0.x

NOTE: One of the fol-

lowing packages must

be installed for IVF 9.0

usage:

NOTE: A free EGCS/GNU

Fortran 77 compiler is

provided, which is suffi-

cient to run most cases in

PSCAD. However, certain

dimensioning limits will be im-

posed (see Dimension Limits).

• Microsoft Visual C++.

NET 2002 or 2003.

• Microsoft Visual

Studio.NET 2002 or

2003 (with Visual C++

installed).

Memory

(RAM)

256 MB

1 GB

Hard Disk

500 MB

40 GB (Fast SCSI or

IDE)

Video

SVGA (800 x 600)

XGA (1280 x 1024)

Other

Peripherals

and

Hardware

CD-ROM Drive /w 32-bit

Drivers

Mouse

One (1) Parallel, Serial or USB

port (for hardware lock)

TCP/IP Network Protocol

Same

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FORTRAN COMPILERS

PSCAD requires a Fortran compiler to build and simulate

projects. The following commercially available compilers are pres-

ently supported:

•

Digital Fortran 5.0

•

Compaq Visual Fortran 6.x

•

Intel Visual Fortran 9.0.x

For your convenience, a free Fortran compiler, called the EGCS/

GNU Fortran 77 compiler, is provided on your PSCAD CD (or may

be downloaded from our worldwide website: www.pscad.com). If you

have downloaded the Student Edition from our website, the GNU

compiler is available as a separate file. Please note that the GNU

compiler will impose some limitations otherwise not experienced with

the Digital, Compaq or Intel Fortran compilers.

If you are the owner of a professional PSCAD license, and intend to

run large cases (i.e. greater than 200 nodes), it is highly recommend-

ed that you purchase the Intel Visual Fortran 9.0.x compiler. Contact

us at PSCAD Sales (sales@pscad.com) for purchasing details.

LICENSING

All PSCAD software editions, except the Student Edition, must

be licensed. Licensing is organized and controlled using License

Manager software, which can exist either as a separate, standalone

program, or can be embedded within PSCAD itself.

The type of licensing arrangement that is best for you depends on

how you wish to utilize PSCAD, and on what type of license you

purchased. The following sections describe each type of licensing

arrangement in detail.

Multi-User Licensing

The multi-user licensing (MUL) method was first introduced with

PSCAD V3, and was then the only licensing option available. With

this configuration, the License Manager software is installed as a

standalone program, which can be accessed by any computer (in-

cluding the host), on a Local Area Network (LAN).

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NOTE : The License Manager will only

grant licenses to computers on the same

subnet. Licenses requested via a router will

not be accepted.

A multi-user set-up is capable of providing multiple users on multiple

machines the ability to run multiple combinations of various licens-

able editions of PSCAD. In other words, if a user is sufficiently li-

censed, this method has the potential to afford a lot of freedom when

operating over a LAN, and should be used if there will be several

PSCAD users.

In multi-user licensing, the License Manager is used in conjunc-

tion with a hardware lock (also known as a dongle), which contains

licensing information for the purpose of validation. When an instance

of PSCAD is started somewhere on the LAN, a license will be re-

quested from the License Manager. The License Manager deter-

mines whether a license is available, and checks the information on

the dongle for verification.

The number of users that can access PSCAD simultaneously

over the LAN depends on the number of licenses available on the

dongle. For example, if there are a total of two Professional Edition

licenses on a network dongle, then only two users may use the

PSCAD Professional Edition at the same time. Each time a user

opens or closes the PSCAD program, it will request or relinquish a

license respectively. Each licensable edition of PSCAD possesses

a separate product number, so that several products are possible on

one dongle.

NOTE : The number of licenses owned does

not limit the number of PSCAD installations

on the LAN!

The License Manager and dongle needs to be installed on only

one computer in a network. This computer will act as the License

Manager ‘server,’ which will hand out licenses to other machines on

the network, as requested. PSCAD may also be installed on the

License Manager server machine if desired.

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EXAMPLE : A PSCAD user owns three

Professional Edition licenses programmed

onto one dongle. The above diagram illus-

trates how the user could install the License

Manager on a LAN, so that up to three users

can run PSCAD simultaneously.

Multi-user licenses can be time limited or infinite (no time limit).

Single-User Licensing

Single-user licensing (SUL) still involves the use of a dongle, but

a standalone License Manager program is not required. Here, an

embedded License Manager, within the PSCAD program itself, man-

ages the licenses.

A single-user license will only allow a single user on a single machine

to run only one instance of a licensable edition of PSCAD. Single-

user licensing is designed especially for use on standalone machines

and laptops, and will NOT allow access from other machines, even if

it is connected to a LAN.

EXAMPLE : A PSCAD user owns one

Professional Edition license programmed

onto a single dongle. The above diagram

illustrates how the user would install PSCAD

as a single-user configuration. Note the ab-

sence of the License Manager as a separate

program.

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Single-user licenses can be time limited or infinite (no time limit).

Trial Licensing

In order to simplify the evaluation process, and to provide access to

the full PSCAD Professional Edition functions, trial licensing is now

available with PSCAD V4. A trial license is a special type of single-

user license, where a time limit is mandatory and the user may only

own a single trial license of the PSCAD Professional Edition.

NOTE : Only the Professional Edition of

PSCAD is available for trial licensing.

With trial licensing, neither the License Manager nor the dongle

is required. However, the user must request a trial license after

PSCAD is installed. Note that until the trial license is approved and

sent by the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre Inc., the installed copy

of PSCAD will function as a Student Edition (SE), with all SE limita-

tions imposed (i.e. 15 electrical nodes maximum).

NOTE : Do not upgrade your operating sys-

tem, hard drive, or network card during the

duration of the trial license period. Any one

of these changes will cause your trial license

to be lost.

Trial licenses are locked to the hardware and registry of a particular

machine and are therefore not transferable from one machine to

another. The latest installed trial license will overwrite any previously

existing trial licenses.

Hardware Locks (Dongles)

The License Manager software supports the following types of hard-

ware locks:

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