Boxer: availability, licensing and working with CFS

CFS partnerships

Boxer is currently made available by CFS to our partners, who share our goals for mutual process development. There are three levels of partnership available:

• Development partnerships. These provide a partner with access to the core Boxer development path, through source-code access, and very strong coupling and interaction with CFS's main team (often through substantial on-site support and development). Such partnerships require funding of order two to four man-years per calendar year, for a two to three year funding horizon - with no license restrictions - and also provide to a partner substantially reduced license fees in the long-term.
• Application partnerships. These provide a partner with an intermediate level of engagement, with CFS software provided via binaries but with substantial discussion and interaction for customised development. This model requires funding of order one man-year per calendar year.
• Licensing partnerships. These represent more traditional licensing model, where partners simply license the developing capability of Boxer through its ongoing development. There is also an opportunity for feedback into CFS's development plans via an annual Users' Group forum. License fees are structured so as not to penalise the ambition of users wishing to mesh with large parallel resources; Boxer is not licensed per individual CPU but rather per-seat, with a cost break at around 16, 64, or 512 CPUs.

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