CAE Portal Makes Using Your Managed HPC Easy
TotalCAE's intuitive HPC Portal is your gateway to streamlined, powerful computing!
Unlock unparalleled efficiency and productivity with TotalCAE Platform that is included with all TotalCAE Managed HPC Service plans. TotalCAE’s platform isn't just robust — it's intuitive, designed with user-friendly features that make job submissions a breeze, whether you prefer a web-based portal or a command-line interface.
We provide a unique and comprehensive ecosystem that lets you get the most out of your HPC experience. Say goodbye to the complexity and inefficiency often associated with high-performance computing; with TotalCAE, you gain a streamlined, powerful, and insightful computing environment right at your fingertips.
HPC Portal
- Submitting Jobs Quickly & Easily
- Job Scheduler
- License Aware Scheduling
- Application Aware Integration
- Monthly Updates
- tsubmit - Universal Command Line Tool to Submit
- Set Companywide Best Practices
- Co-Simulation Support
- In Browser Terminal Command Line
- Job Dependencies
- TotalCAE University
- Email Preferences
- Message of the Day
Submitting Jobs Quickly & Easily
TotalCAE offers a rich assortment of job submission methods to cater to your preferred work style. Our user-friendly web-based portal is intuitive and easy to navigate. For command-line experts, our tsubmit command-line interface offers quick and efficient submission for submitting many jobs and integration with 3rd party tools and scripts.
The Power of Job Scheduling
TotalCAE comes with a job scheduler that enables you to schedule jobs based on your business requirements. TotalCAE will tune the system on an ongoing basis based on your changing needs.
Reminder on After Hours, Weekend, and Scheduled Jobs
CAE managers or team leads can easily re-order jobs in the queue based on priority and receive dynamically estimated job completion times for applications that provide it to plan your projects more efficiently.
Easily schedule jobs for the weekend or after hours, and create rules for Design of Experiment (DOE) jobs to prevent those classes of jobs from monopolizing the system.
License Aware Scheduling and Real-Time License Feedback
Avoid scheduled jobs failing due to lack of licenses with our intelligent License Aware Scheduling.
This feature calculates the number of CAE licenses required for the job, and dynamically queues resources based on your license availability to ensure licenses are available for every engineering job. TotalCAE supports all major CAE license schemes including FLEXlm, DSLS, LSTC, LM-X, Ansa, Altair HHWU, and more. TotalCAE will give feedback to the engineer on the number of licenses still required before the job will start:
TotalCAE also can prioritize licenses by user or group to ensure fair usage of the license across teams.
Application Aware Integrations
TotalCAE has application aware integration for most solvers. Clicking on a job will show capabilities specific for that application. For example, with Abaqus, you can suspend/resume Abaqus tokens and cleanly shut down the simulation with Abaqus terminate in just one click.
Control when emails are sent to you or turn off job emails altogether.
Never Fall Behind, TotalCAE keeps you Up to Date on the Latest Innovations
We’re always updating our platform to keep you ahead of the curve. Monthly updates ensure you are getting the latest innovations and integrations to keep your team at the forefront of HPC capabilities.
Submitting Jobs Quickly & Easily
TotalCAE Integrates with Industry Standards
In addition to TotalCAE Platform, our system enables clients to run with their preferred industry standard tools and integrations, here is a partial list of:
- TotalCAE Web Portal
- TotalCAE Command Line
- Standard Scheduler Batch Scripts
- Ansys Workbench with RSM
- 3DEXPERIENCE
- Siemens PLM
- Ansys Minerva
- SPDM Tools
- Design of Experiment Tools like iSight, HyperStudy
- Siemens PLM
- Native batch scripts
- Containers
- SPACK
- Modules
Universal Platform to Submit to On-prem or Cloud
TotalCAE allows users to import a TotalCAE profile from clusters or cloud systems to submit with TotalCAE tsubmit. TotalCAE tsubmit handles all simulation data orchestration to and from the remote systems(s) to free engineers from dealing with data movement with the cloud.
Set Company Best Practice Defaults
TotalCAE can set companywide best practices for applications so engineers are running most efficiently out of the box and conforming to CAE best practices.
For example, default core counts per application that are most efficient from CAE license perspective based on your standard models, and issue feedback when users deviate from corporate standards.
Co-Simulation Support
Co-simulation is coupling two or more distinct solvers together that normally run independently.
For example, Abaqus may be doing some structural analysis, and pass off CFD analysis to STAR-CCM+, all in a single job. A more complicated scenario show below is having CoTherm orchestrate solving between TAITherm and Siemens STAR-CCM+ or Ansys Fluent in a single job to solve advanced simulation problems.
Co-Simulation Support
TotalCAE has first-class support for fine-grained control of coupling scenarios.
This makes it easy for clients to control and choose coupling of their favorite applications that support these more advanced simulation requirements.
In-Browser Terminal Command Line
Many clients love using the command line, we have a terminal version of our portal called “tsubmit” that is handy for submitting lots of jobs quickly, like looping through load cases. Clients also like being able to use their favorite Linux utilities. Now you can get a command line terminal right in the browser, making it easy to access the command line if you don’t have PuTTY or other terminal program available.
Job Dependencies
It is not uncommon that users want to submit a bunch of CAE jobs that depend on each other, for example, the output of job A feeds into job B. Many clients are using this for load cases, or various CAE pipelines they have created. TotalCAE supports job depencies in our web portal and submit command line through the –depends-on-jobid flag.
Message of the Day
To make it quicker to communicate system wide changes or issues to HPC users, we can now show a customized “Message of the Day” on login to acknowledge maintenance windows, system problems, or other news.
Save Time and Money on Job Monitoring with TotalCAE Watchdog
TotalCAE watchdog monitors the output of your CAE solver to email and alert you of jobs that may not be doing useful work. This helps save money on cloud jobs and enable engineers to not have to constantly be checking on their jobs.
Job Peek
Peek at the output of a running job at any time by right clicking on the job and choosing “ peek” or use “tsubmit peek”. This is handy to quickly see the solver output without needing to actually login to a terminal or look at your mapped drive.
See screenshots below. Also works with tsubmit like tsubmit job peek <jobid>!
Filter Jobs by Node List
It can be helpful to see what jobs ran on a set of node(s) when debugging node issues. Now you can filter nodes using standard scheduler syntax to see what other jobs ran on a set of node(s).
Visualization: On-Prem or Cloud
Our visualization tools make it easy to do pre- and post-processing without needing to wait on data downloads. TotalCAE makes it simple for engineers to connect to cloud desktops, turn them on/off, auto-stop desktops on the cloud, and easily bill desktop usage to specific projects. Learn more about HPC Remote Visualization for Data and Applications.
Status Emails Make it Easy to Keep Tabs on your Jobs and Get Support
TotalCAE Tmail sends application aware snippets of your job status ( For example, STA file on Abaqus, D3HSP with LS-DYNA) along with the important job details, so you can quickly see what happened with the job and forward the details to TotalCAE if you need us to review the job.
Explanation on Jobs Pending
Segfault Detector
Detect segfaults occurring during your job that can make it appear to be silently working when it is not and alert you that the job may not be running correctly.
Stuck Job Monitoring
CAEWatchdog will alert users via email if your specific application output is not updating properly
Post-Processing Tailored to Your Needs
TotalCAE offers a suite of post-processing options to meet your custom requirements including graphical desktops and automated post-processing options including your own custom post processing code.
Visualization: On-Prem or Cloud
Our visualization tools make it easy to do pre- and post-processing without needing to wait on data downloads. TotalCAE makes it simple for engineers to connect to cloud desktops, turn them on/off, auto-stop desktops on the cloud, and easily bill desktop usage to specific projects. Learn more about HPC Remote Visualization for Data and Applications.
Simple Billing and Cost Management
In our cloud-based setting, staying in your budget is a breeze.
Take advantage of our built-in job cost estimators, and set maximum spending caps by job, user, and project to prevent budget overflows. Delegate budgets to project managers, and enable warnings when projects get low on funds. Keep your cloud costs under control while still enjoying the limitless capabilities of the cloud, export to Excel for easy sharing and chargeback.
On-demand automatic on/off based on license and resource availability
Maximize efficiency and control costs with our HPC cloud portal's cutting-edge feature—On-demand Automatic On/Off. This intelligent feature ensures your cloud HPC resources are only activated when necessary, based on real-time license and resource availability. Experience streamlined operations that enhance performance and significantly reduce operational costs, making your HPC tasks more efficient and budget-friendly.
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Take control of your high-performance computing costs with our HPC Portal's Job Cost Estimates and Job Cost Limits. Get a precise estimate of your expected costs, ensuring transparency and effective planning. Set firm limits on how much each job can spend, preventing any unexpected overruns and safeguarding your resources. With these tools integrated into our HPC Portal, you can confidently manage your computing expenses, making every project more predictable and efficient.
Job Monitoring
View & Submit HPC Clusters
View and submit to all your HPC clusters and cloud from a single pane of glass.
