Introduction

Lumerical FDTD Solutions Engine is available on the WestGrid Orcinus cluster.

For details how to create the input file and analyze the data, please  visit the Lumerical web site (http://www.lumerical.com/support.php).

As far as running FDTD Solutions on WestGrid is concerned, an example of a job submission script can be found on Orcinus at

/global/system/info/notes/script-examples/FDTD/FDTD-parallel.pbs

User Responsibilities

WestGrid no longer has the Shared User Interface license. It will be up to the users to obtain a client license.

The CAD - FDTD Lumerical User Interface is not supported, please contact http://www.lumerical.com/contact.php for details.

System Characteristics and Limitations

The Lumerical Engine was formerly available to WestGrid users on the glacier.westgrid.ca system, with a limit of 10 concurrent simulations. Through a donation from Lumerical, this license has been extended to the Orcinus cluster.

Note: If it is not included in the batch job script generated by the Lumerical front-end software, add this TORQUE directive to the job submission file:

#PBS -l software=FDTD