Overview

CloudHPC offers advanced, scalable high performance computing solutions that harness the power of the cloud.

Its state-of-the-art infrastructure delivers unmatched computational power, flexibility, and security, tailored to meet the demands of intensive workloads.

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.

Scalable cloud infrastructure for intensive computational tasks
High-speed data processing and advanced analytics
Robust security protocols to protect critical data
Cost-efficient operations with pay-as-you-go pricing

Key Features

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-up your compute capacity then CFD FEA SERVICE cloud HPC service has you covered!

Wide range of cloud machines availability	Full control over your simulations	Pay for what you need and use
• Unlimited cloud space with 60 days files availabilility • 2nd to 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors from 3.3GHz • Intel® Xeon® Emerald Rapids Processors 4.0GHz • Virtual Machines type: from 1 to 224 vCPU • RAM: from 1.00 GB/vCPU to 8.00 GB/vCPU • From 100 GB to 2000 GB Hard Disk	✔ Check the simulations with real time plots ✔ Connect to the instances via SSH ✔ Use your X desktop software ✔ Take advantage of VNC remote desktop	💵 No fixed costs, subscriptions or annual fees 💵 100% pay per use based on vCPU/Hours usage 💵 Discount available for high monthly usage 💵 Pay with credit/debit cards
Integration and efficiency	Cost Flexibility	Customer Support
Ask for API access to the web application in order to integrate cloud computing into your simulation software and create synergies. A dedicated repository is also available on GitHub containing guides, GPL v3 licensed scripts and other information to interact with the Cloud HPC world	Priced per vCPU / hours, the price structure is centered around customer needs by ensuring maximum flexibility and scalability	Customer support is available 9:00 to 18:00 CET/CEST from Monday to Friday - excluding bank holidays. Support covers both existing issues and the settings of the simulations, to guarantee the best result in the shortest time span

Available Software

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

Available Software	Description	License
Blender	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.	free
CalculiX	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.	free
cfMesh	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.	free
cfMesh+	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. CF-MESH+ is designed for engineers and other experts using CFD in their product development and research. It is a perfect companion to those who require an efficient, easy-to-use, yet fully automated meshing process able to resolve complex domains faced in industrial settings.	on demand
Code_Aster	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.	free
Code_Saturn	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).	free
Contam	CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis computer program designed to help you determine: airflows: infiltration, exfiltration, and room-to-room airflows in building systems driven by mechanical means, wind pressures acting on the exterior of the building, and buoyancy effects induced by the indoor and outdoor air temperature difference. contaminant concentrations: the dispersal of airborne contaminants transported by these airflows; transformed by a variety of processes including chemical and radio-chemical transformation, adsorption and desorption to building materials, filtration, and deposition to building surfaces, etc.; and generated by a variety of source mechanisms, and/or personal exposure: the predictions of exposure of occupants to airborne contaminants for eventual risk assessment.	free
Dakota	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.	free
Elmer	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.	free
EnergyPlus™	EnergyPlus™ is a whole-building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption — for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, and process and plug loads — and water use in buildings. Its development is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Building Technologies Office. EnergyPlus™ is a console-based program that reads input and writes output to text files. Several comprehensive graphical interfaces for EnergyPlus™ are also available.	free
FDS	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 CEN/TS 12101-11:2022 - Jet Fans positioning	free
FEniCS	FEniCS is a popular open-source computing platform for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with the finite element method (FEM). FEniCS enables users to quickly translate scientific models into efficient finite element code. With the high-level Python and C++ interfaces to FEniCS, it is easy to get started, but FEniCS offers also powerful capabilities for more experienced programmers. FEniCS runs on a multitude of platforms ranging from laptops to high-performance computers.	free
MantiumFlow	MantiumFlow is a CFD simulation tool that wraps around OpenFOAM ®. It sets up and post-processes cases, based on templates. This makes using OpenFOAM ® and CFD in general much easier, because the user only has to provide the geometry and select a template. It is much more than a simple OpenFOAM GUI as it takes care of setting up all boundary conditions, the mesh and post-processing.	coming soon
M-STAR CFD	M-Star is modern computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that provides first-principles modeling tools for scientists and engineers, generating predictions that are functionally indistinguishable from measured data. To use of M-STAR CFD it is necessary that you own a license.	bring your own
OpenFOAM	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.	free
OpenLB	OpenLB is an object-oriented implementation of the lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM). It is the first implementation of a generic platform for LBM programming, which is shared with the open source community (GPLv2). The code is written in C++ and is used by application programmers as well as developers, with the ability to implement custom models OpenLB supports complex data structures that allow simulations in complex geometries and parallel execution using MPI, OpenMP and CUDA on high-performance computers. The source code uses the concepts of interfaces and templates, so that efficient, direct and intuitive implementations of the LBM become possible.	free
OpenRadioss	OpenRadioss is a multidisciplinary finite element solver developed by Altair Engineering. It can solve both linear and non-linear problems. It is a finite element solver using implicit and explicit integration schemes for the solution of engineering problems, from linear statics and linear dynamics to nonlinear transient dynamics and mechanical systems. This multidisciplinary solver enables designers to maximize performance related to durability, NVH, crash, safety, manufacturability, and fluid-structure interaction, in order to bring products to market faster.	free
ParaView	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.	free
PreCICE	preCICE is an open-source coupling library for multi-physics simulations such as fluid-structure interaction and conjugate heat transfer simulations. This library is compatible with several software available on the cloudHPC, among which OpenFOAM, Code_Aster, CalculiX	free
PSI	Psi is an ab initio computational chemistry package originally written by the research group of Henry F. Schaefer, III (University of Georgia). Utilizing Psi, one can perform a calculation on a molecular system with various kinds of methods such as Hartree-Fock, Post-Hartree–Fock electron correlation methods, and Density functional theory. The program can compute energies, optimize molecular geometries, and compute vibrational frequencies. The major part of the program is written in C++, while Python API is also available, which allows users to perform complex computations or automate tasks easily. Psi4 is the latest release of the program package - it is open source, released as free under the GPL through GitHub. Primary development of Psi4 is currently performed by the research groups of David Sherrill (Georgia Tech), T. Daniel Crawford (Virginia Tech), Francesco Evangelista (Emory University), and Henry F. Schaefer, III (University of Georgia), with substantial contributions by Justin Turney (University of Georgia), Andy Simmonett (NIH), and Rollin King (Bethel University).	free
PyTorch	PyTorch is a machine learning library based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, originally developed by Meta AI and now part of the Linux Foundation umbrella. It is one of the most popular deep learning frameworks, alongside others such as TensorFlow and PaddlePaddle, offering free and open-source software released under the modified BSD license. Although the Python interface is more polished and the primary focus of development, PyTorch also has a C++ interface.	free
Salome-Meca	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.	free
Scilab	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.	free
SU2	SU2 is a suite of open-source software tools written in C++ for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDE) and performing PDE-constrained optimization. The primary applications are computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamic shape optimization, but has been extended to treat more general equations such as electrodynamics and chemically reacting flows. SU2 supports continuous and discrete adjoint for calculating the sensitivities/gradients of a scalar field.	free
TensorFlow	TensorFlow is a software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence. It can be used across a range of tasks, but is used mainly for training and inference of neural networks. It is one of the most popular deep learning frameworks, alongside others such as PyTorch and PaddlePaddle. It is free and open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0.	free
Vento CFD	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	coming soon
CFD FEA SERVICE Template	CFD FEA provides a range of simulation template which automate the analysis performed by users in several fields of civil and mechanical engineering. By editing a simple XML file, the user can quickly execute several scenarios and quickly obtain engineering information about the component or structure under investigation: simpleFill - simulate injection filling of your plastic injection component on demand valveFlow - automate your safety valve analysis on demand tenuFEM - check your gasket sealing and pressure	on demand

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