Sentaurus
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The Sentaurus Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) tools are installed in the Niagara software stack.
Getting a license
Licenses are provided by CMC Microsystems. Canadian students and faculty can register at this page.
Once you have an account, you must contact CMC and tell them you want to use the Synopsis Sentaurus tools on Niagara, and give them your SciNet username.
Running using the Niagara installation
Sentaurus 2017.09-SP2
Commercial modules can only be accessed using the 'module use' command.
module use /scinet/niagara/software/commercial/modules module load synopsys/sentaurus/2017.09-SP2
Running Sentaurus
Example submission script for a job running on 1 node, with max walltime of 11 hours:
#!/bin/bash #SBATCH --nodes=1 #SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=40 #SBATCH --time=11:00:00 #SBATCH --job-name test module use /scinet/niagara/software/commercial/modules module load synopsys/sentaurus/2017.09-SP2 # DIRECTORY TO RUN - $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR is directory job was submitted from cd $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR sdevice myinputfile.cmd