Seen this, anyone, regarding Autodesk and educational institutions, a default of 125 instances for free, up to …????: http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/academic-resource-center
We are currently working on installing this on standard PCs to get a feeling of what general performance on a "thick" client looks like, but are thinking seriously about deploying GRID-drivem VM instances, as well.