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Academic Licensing Process

Complete details about and application instructions for Simio’s Academic Licensing Program

Simio Academic Licensing is

  • No-cost (free)
  • Equivalent to Simio RPS (no limits on model size/complexity)
  • Valid for 1 year (can be renewed after 1 year expiration)
    • To make updates or changes to an active grant award prior to renewal, email academic@simio.com

How to Apply for an Academic Grant

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Gather application information
  • Licensing needs (see Licensing Explained below for details):
    • Number of license seats for Academic Network License
    • Number of license seats for Academic Node-Locked License
    • Number of license seats for Student License
  • Academic email address of Grant Holder (Intended Grant Holder should complete the grant application)
  • Web link verifying Grant Holder faculty status (university profile page, LinkedIn profile, Google Scholar page, etc.)
  • [If renewing your Academic Grant] Grant Identifier

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Complete Academic Grant application
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Await Grant Application Review
  • Approval may take up to (5) business days
  • Upon approval, a grant award email will be sent to the provided academic email address of the Grant Holder. This grant award email includes:
    • Link to download Simio software
    • Grant Identifier
    • License key(s)
    • License activation instructions
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Licensing Explained

The three types of license types available are Network and Node-Locked:

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Network License
  • A license hosted on a computer server, from which clients borrow the license through proximity (i.e., same network)
  • Allows for quicker setup of multiple computers
    • Common use: Computer labs
Node-Lock
Node-Locked License
  • A node-locked license seat is tied to one specific computer. Once activated, it cannot be transferred to another computer
    • Common use: Faculty members’ personal computers
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Student License
  • A Simio Student License is a single Node-Locked license for all students to use (see ‘Node-Locked License’ above for explanation of license type)
  • The number of license seats on a Student License is dependent upon the number requested in the Academic Grant application

Licensing Examples

The licenses requested by a professor applying for licenses for a course taught in a computer lab with (45) computers as well as for the professor’s (1) personal computer may look like:

  • Network license seats: 45
  • Node-Locked license seats: 1

The licenses requested by a professor applying for licenses for a course taught to (30) students using their personal computers as well as for the professor’s (1) personal computer and teaching assistant’s (TA) (1) personal computer may look like:

  • Node-Locked license seats: 1
  • Student Licenses: 31

The licenses requested by an IT staff who is applying on behalf of multiple professor’s teaching a total of (120) students using their personal computers as well as for (5) university-owned computers in five different classrooms and (5) professor’s personal computers may look like:

  • Node-Locked license seats: 10
  • Student Licenses: 120

The licenses requested by a faculty researcher applying for licenses for their (1) personal computer as well as for their research group of (2) faculty researchers and (5) student researchers using their personal computers may look like:

  • Node-Locked license seats: 3
  • Student Licenses: 5
Apply for an Academic Grant