HPC systems available to individuals with a licensed product

Through Lumerical's Nanophotonic Design Ecosystem (NDE) initiative, high-performance computing systems are available to individuals with a licensed product at little, or no, additional cost.  Researchers in the following countries may already have free access to FDTD Solutions Engines licenses on a such a system:

Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
United States

North America

CANADA
	SharcNET System: FDTD Solutions is installed on a number of clusters within the SharcNET system, with some as large as 3,072 cores and with others employing Quadrics, Myrinet and Infiniband interconnects Location: London, Ontario User Access: Academic faculty members at Canadian institutions; non-Canadian faculty may be approved by the Scientific Director Access Fee: None Getting Access: See here for more information
	WestGrid System: 3,072 core HP blade-based cluster composed of 3.0GHz Intel Xeon E5450 quad-core processors with Infiniband interconnects Location: Vancouver, British Columbia User Access: Academics research across Canada; other non-profit researchers sponsored by a faculty member at a Canadian university that is registered with the CCDB may be able to obtain access as well. Access Fee: None Getting Access: http://www.westgrid.ca/support/accounts/applying_for_an_account
UNITED STATES
	National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation Project (NNIN/C) System: 2x28 dual-processor, dual-core AMD 2.0GHZ, 4GB RAM, 64-bit Opteron blades, for a total of 224 cores. Half of them are also equipped with Infiniband interconnects. Location: Harvard University, Boston User Access: Academics Researchers across the United States. Other users may also be able to gain access. Access Fee: None Getting Access: http://www.cns.fas.harvard.edu/users/how_to_become_user.php

Europe

UNITED KINGDOM
	ScotGrid System: High-throughput cluster composed of 140 dual-core Opteron servers, and 170 quad-core Xeon servers for a total of 1,920 cores connected with 1GB/s ethernet Location: Glasgow, Scotland User Access: Academic, non-profit, and commercial users who have a valid certificate and belong to a VO Access Fee: None Getting Access: If in the UK > http://www.scotgrid.ac.uk/join.html

Asia-Pacific

AUSTRALIA

ANUSF System: 11,936 cores based on Intel Xeon EMT 64 (Nehalem series) quad core processors (2.93 GHz) with 36 TBytes of memory and Infiniband interconnects Location: Canberra User Access: Academics. Non-Academic researchers can negotiate usage by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Access Fee: Academic usage is free, however there is a usage fee for non-academics Getting Access: http://nf.nci.org.au/accounts/