How to implement Parallel Processing through the GUI

Hey guys,

I am new to FEATool and working on first simple models. I tried to get parallel processing going by just entering the according number under the solver settings, but unfortunately, it always puts back the "1".

What am I missing?

I ran through google, forum and the documentation, read a lot about the capabilities of the individual solvers and possible implementations for multiple machines, but I couldn't find an answer on how to generally access it.

I think there should be a note popping up somewhere that parallel processing is only available for full licenses, but maybe it has gone missing somehow.

Out of the box only shared memory parallel processing is supported (on the same machine that is). Although, the external solvers do support multi-system processing via MPI parallelization, it would have to be run separately (that is export the model case files and run outside the toolbox, at least for now).

I thought as much, thank you for clearing that up!

I forgot to add that the "built-in" linear solver (UMFPACK/SuiteSparse) also does not support parallel solutions, only the "MUMPS" linear solver does (and the external solvers FEniCS, SU2, and OpenFOAM).