Cloud computing is the way through which we want to deliver complex hardware systems dedicated to engineering simulations. We at CFD FEA SERVICE have created an innovative cloud High Performance Computing (HPC) system for the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) world.

Thanks to this cloud HPC you can use the power of a cluster to run your engineering analyses, may them be CFD, FEM, FEA and many more. The system allows you to select machines in terms of available vCPU and RAM to solve the case under study.

If you are you looking for an answer to your fluctuating hardware resource requirements, if you would you like to enjoy pay-per-use pricing and you need to scale your computational capacity then CFD FEA SERVICE cloud HPC service has you covered: use our system to enjoy 360° services from cloud resources and clusters to web accessibility with a wide range of integrated and always up to date softwares.

Software available

A wide range of software is available directly using the cloud HPC system. New versions and updates are constantly added by our IT team so you can just enjoy the power of the cloud cluster and take advantage of your simulation and analisys.

Blender

Description	Version	License
Blender is a free and multiplatform software for modeling, rigging, video editing, 2D and 3D rendering; among the many features it also allows for running simulations of fluids, coatings, particles and other non-linear elements. It is available for a range of OS: Microsoft Windows, macOS, GNU / Linux, along with unofficial ports as well. In terms of complexity, Blender is equipped with a robust set of features that match it to other well-known 3D modeling programs such as Softimage XSI, Cinema 4D and Maya.	v2.80	free

CalculiX

Description	Version	License
CalculiX is a free and open source software for the analysis and simulation of finite elements; an application that uses an input data format similar to the ABAQUS software. It has an implicit and explicit solver (CCX) written by Guido Dhondt and a pre and post processor (CGX) written by Klaus Wittig. The software was originally written for Linux then Convergent Mechanical Solutions ported it to the Windows. Thanks to Calculix it is possible to run FEA (Finite Element Analysis) using cloud parallelization.	v2.18	free

cfMesh

Description	Version	License
Provided by Creative Fields, Ltd. Extend project, University Zagreb. Automatic, control by dictionary, similar to snappyHexMesh with capabilities to generate tetrahedral meshes and boundary layers.	v1.1.2	free

Code_Aster

Description	Version	License
Code_Aster is a free software for numerical simulation of materials and mechanical structures, mainly developed by the department of "Analyses Mécaniques et Acoustiques" of the R&D service of Électricité de France (EDF). The current script allows to run FEM - Finite Element Method - analysis using any customized com file with MPI parallelization.	v14.6 v14.4 v13.6 v13.4	free

Code_Saturne

Description	Version	License
Code_Saturne is a general-purpose computational fluid dynamics free computer software package. Developed since 1997 at Électricité de France R&D, Code_Saturne is distributed under the GNU GPL licence. It is based on a co-located finite-volume approach that accepts meshes with any type of cell (tetrahedral, hexahedral, prismatic, pyramidal, polyhedral...) and any type of grid structure (unstructured, block structured, hybrid, conforming or with hanging nodes...). Its basic capabilities enable the handling of either incompressible or expandable flows with or without heat transfer and turbulence (mixing length, 2-equation models, v2f, Reynolds stress models, Large eddy simulation...). Dedicated modules are available for specific physics such as radiative heat transfer, combustion (gas, coal, heavy fuel oil, ...), magneto-hydro dynamics, compressible flows, two-phase flows (Euler-Lagrange approach with two-way coupling), extensions to specific applications (e.g. for atmospheric environment).	v6.1	free

Dakota

Description	Version	License
The Dakota project delivers both state-of-the-art research and robust, usable software for optimization and UQ. Broadly, the Dakota software's advanced parametric analyses enable design exploration, model calibration, risk analysis, and quantification of margins and uncertainty with computational models. The Dakota toolkit provides a flexible, extensible interface between such simulation codes and its iterative systems analysis methods, which include: optimization with gradient and nongradient-based methods; uncertainty quantification with sampling, reliability, stochastic expansion, and epistemic methods; parameter estimation using nonlinear least squares (deterministic) or Bayesian inference (stochastic); sensitivity/variance analysis with design of experiments and parameter study methods.	v6.11	free

Elmer

Description	Version	License
Elmer is a finite element software for multiphysical problems published under open source. Elmer is mainly but not exclusively developed by CSC – IT Center for Science. The purpose of this site is to host services for the benefit of the user community.	v9	free

FDS

Description	Version	License
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The computer program solves numerically a large eddy simulation form of the Navier–Stokes equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires, to describe the evolution of fire. FDS is free software developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States Department of Commerce, in cooperation with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Smokeview is the companion visualization program that can be used to display the output of FDS. Thanks to FDS it's possible to run CFD analysis for FSE - Fire Safety Engineering - according to the most common international standards: • BS 7346 - British Standard • AS1668.2 (2012) - Australian Standard • PIARC – 05.16.B and PIARC – 05.05.B for tunnel ventilation	v6.7.7 v6.7.6 v6.7.5 v6.7.4 v6.7.1 v6.7.0	free

OpenFOAM

Description	Version	License
OpenFOAM (for "Open-source Field Operation And Manipulation") is a C++ toolbox for the development of customized numerical solvers, and pre-/post-processing utilities for the solution of continuum mechanics problems, most prominently including computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The cloud HPC platform includes two main scripts which allows: MESH calculation with snappyHexMesh CFD Solution for transient/steady simulations using any OpenFOAM solver - i.e. simpleFoam, pimpleFoam, rhoSimpleFoam, rhoPimpleFoam, chtMultiRegionFoam, etc. Custom OpenFOAM solvers currently available: humidityRHOTHERMO compiled in v8 and v2012 openInjMoldSim compiled in v7 OpenQBMM compiled in v2106	v9 v8 v7 v2106 v2012 v2006 v1912	free

ParaView

Description	Version	License
ParaView is an open-source multiple-platform application for interactive, scientific visualization. It has a client–server architecture to facilitate remote visualization of datasets, and generates level of detail (LOD) models to maintain interactive frame rates for large datasets. It is an application built on top of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) libraries. ParaView is an application designed for data parallelism on shared-memory or distributed-memory multicomputers and clusters. It can also be run as a single-computer application.	v5.6	free

Salome-Meca

Description	Version	License
Salome is free software that provides a generic platform for pre- and post-processing for numerical simulation. It is based on an open architecture made of reusable components. It is open source, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, and both its source code and binaries may be downloaded from its official website.	v2020.0.1	free

Scilab

Description	Version	License
Scilab is a free and open-source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. It can be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulations, numerical optimization, and modeling, simulation of explicit and implicit dynamical systems and (if the corresponding toolbox is installed) symbolic manipulations.	v5.5.2	free

Vento CFD

Description	Version	License
VENTO is the ideal choice for all CFD industrial analysts and designers. Simplicity and quickness make it perfect for educational purposes. 4 dedicated layouts (apps): External Aerodynamic (3D and 2D) Wind Tunnel Building Internal Flows VENTO AEC is the first CFD software specially developed for the AEC market sector. Civil Engineers and Architects will master its use with no required previous CFD experience. Focus on 4 Main Applications: determination of wind load on buildings and structures outdoor comfort analysis in urban design and in the design of stadiums time-accurate analysis of contaminat dispersion in urban environments, industrial and natural sites HVAC, indoor clima comfort, energy saving	Coming soon ...	Coming soon ...

Pricing

The pricing scheme is the simplest possible for a cloud HPC application. The base unit is the vCPU/Hour – so a unit which refers to the harware computing power allocated for every hour you use it. There are three standard models that differenciate the vCPU/Hour cost depending on the RAM allocated.

Beyond the vCPU/Hours computation, there are no other costs involved with the cloudHPC: so storage is completely free as well as data transfer (upload/download).

MultiThread/Core REG instance

MultiCore REG instance

Non Regular Instances

NON Regular instances, also called PREemptible, are excess power computing to which users may refer in order to run their analysis. While REGular instances are exclusively used for the analysis, PRE machines can be restarted at any time during the calculation (at least once every 24 hours, usually 2-3 times every 24 hours). After the machine reboots, the simulation restarts automatically from the last saved restart file. More information available in this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYfvGqfBqqI

MultiThread/Core PRE instance

MultiCore PRE instance

Progressive discount

High use discounts are automatic discounts for running specific amounts of use in our cloud HPC platform every single month. Depeding on the montly turnover in terms of €uro spent on the platform, a progressive discount percentage is applied on the total amount. This percentage increases with the turnover on the platform for each moth and ranges from 0% to 30%.

The procedure to evaluate and to apply the discount is the following:

• Evaluation of turnover of the current month
• Given the amount the discount percentage is calculated from the following graph (from 0% to 30%)
• Application of the discount percentage

CloudHPC screenshots