Note: Starting January 2025, the CAD Compute Cluster service will be unavailable indefinitely as we explore options to update its hardware and software to deliver a high-quality, reliable service. This change does not affect our VCAD Cloud or Turbo Cloud platforms.
Recognizing that this type of service is valuable to our subscribers, we provide the following arrangements:
- Assist subscribers with access to our CAD licence servers if they run simulations on Digital Research Alliance or Calcul Quebec nodes. For more information, see Other Ways to Run HPC (High-Performance Compute) Simulations.
- Work with our academic partners to identify other options for high-performance computing (HPC) services.
- Find commercial data centre partners with whom we can offer VIE clients HPC access.
For more information about this change or to discuss a potential partnership, please contact Hugh Pollitt-Smith.
The CAD Compute Cluster is a dedicated group of servers enabling researchers to improve the performance of large computational tasks.
See the Support Documents for information on how to utilize the cluster.
Support Documents
- All
- CAD
- CMC Cloud
- Compute
- Cluster
- Linux
- Getting Started
- STC-Related
- Utilities
Speed up Your Simulations
- CMC engineers provide assistance in utilizing the infrastructure as well as domain knowledge on utilising HPC infrastructure
- Documentation/reference designs available for Ansys, COMSOL, Xilinx and more
- Uniform array available in standard and large memory configurations
Other Related Infrastructure
8 Nodes Delivering 8.6 TFLOPS
Node configuration:
- Dual 16-core 2.4 – 3.3 GHz CPU
- 4 nodes – 384 GB RAM
- 4 nodes – 768 GB RAM
- 100 Gb EDR node interconnect
- 10 GbE storage network
Design Environment Options to Optimize Use of the Cluster
- Remote Desktop Access through CMC cloud—a secure, high-performance environment. The CMC cloud is managed by CMC which helps lower the technical support and administration costs of a research project.
- Local Desktop Access through the STC Server Network that are regularly synchronized to deliver the latest updates to CMC-supported CAD tools