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Research Computing

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Research Computing

To request access to Bentley ATC's HPC environment:

Bentley’s Research Computing is entirely on the cloud using Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and they include the following options:

1. Bentley Azure Virtual Desktop (Windows based)

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a cloud-based desktop and application virtualization service that delivers Windows desktops and apps to users anywhere. It is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy and manage virtual desktops and applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

2. Bentley HPC Pack on Azure Cyclecloud (Windows & Slurm Scheduler)

 

3. Bentley’s Azure Machine Learning (Linux based)

 

Click each accordion to know more about the versions available:

Default
  • 16 vCPUs powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 CPU
  • 32 GiB of memory
  • 1023 GiB OS disk
  • 128 GiB temporary disk
  • 4 Max Interfaces and Accelerated Networking
  • Supports premium storage
  • Processor specs: 24 cores, 48 threads, 2.70 GHz base frequency (max turbo frequency of 3.70 GHz), and 33 MB L3 Cach
Advanced
  • 48 vCPUs powered by Dual Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL CPUs
  • 192 GiB of memory
  • 1023 GiB OS disk size
  • 1800 GiB temporary disk size
  • 8 Max Interfaces and Accelerated Networking
  • Supports premium storage and includes a local temp disk
  • Processor specs: 52 cores, 104 threads, 2.6 GHz base frequency (max turbo frequency of 3.7 GHz) and 71.50 MB cache
Pro
  • 24 vCPUs powered by the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2690 at 2.90 GHz
  • 448 GiB of Memory
  • 1023 GiB OS disk size
  • 1344 GiB temporary disk size
  • 8 Max Interfaces and Accelerated Networking
  • Supports 4 Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB GPUs, with 5120 shading units (CUDA cores) and 640 tensor cores
  • Processor specs: GPUs operate at 1245 MHz, boostable up to 1380 MHz and 4096-bit memory

For more information and queries, contact Clifton Chow at 781-216-7126.