Creating your Lumerical Product instance and AMI using a windows based instance is outlined below.
- From the EC2 dashboard, go to Instances and Launch a new instance
- Choose Windows Server base, from the Amazon's quick start AMIs.
- Select the instance type, i.e. c5.large.
- Configure instance details,
- Use Spot instance (optional - not used in this example)
- add the instance to your existing placement group
- use the Security Group you created
- make the shutdown behaviour to Stop.
- Review and launch instance.
- Connect to your instance.
- Download and install Lumerical Products.
- Open and configure product license to obtain from your license server instance.
- Enter the private IP of your license server instance as the 'Server' in the Floating tab in the Licenses section of the Product Launcher.
- Open and run FDTD from the launcher or directly from the Windows search bar
- If FDTD is working and you can create and run your simulation, you can log off or disconnect.
- Stop this compute instance from the AWS management console when not in use.