A Canadian software company and a leading provider of high performance nanophotonic design software, Lumerical Solutions Inc., is donating 10 simulation engine licenses of its finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software to Compute/Calcul Canada at one of the new WestGrid installations. The licenses will enable FDTD Solutionsʼ academic customers in Canada to run, at no additional cost, large simulations on any number of the 3072 cores of WestGridʼs Orcinus cluster.cluster with Infiniband interconnect.

Information on FDTD Solutions is available at www.lumerical.com/fdtd.php, and information on how to access the software through WestGrid is available at www.westgrid.ca/support/software/lumerical.

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