Deployment options¶
Choose what fit your needs¶
Antares comes bundled in different ways depending on your needs and computing power available.
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Desktop
Antares executable for universities and first approach
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Base
For institutions having servers but no high performance clusters
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Performance
Ideal for institutions having both servers and high performance computing clusters.
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SaaS
Coming!
A solution offered by RTE-I for remote access to high performance clusters
Side-by-side comparison¶
Here is a comparison of the different Antares deployment options:
| Desktop | Base | Performance1 | SaaS (coming!) | Legacy | |
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| Operating system | Ubuntu, Windows | Cross platform for users: Linux, Windows, Mac; Server: Ubuntu | Cross platform for users: Linux, Windows, Mac; HPC on Linux | Cross platform: Linux, Windows, Mac | Windows |
| Performance | Low | Medium | High (depending on your cluster) | High | High (depending on your cluster) |
| Multiple users | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| HPC | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ SLURM | ✅ SLURM | ✅ SLURM |
| GEMS modelling | ✅ (coming!) | ✅ (coming!) | ✅ (coming!) | ✅ (coming!) | ❌ |
| Xpansion | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Study editing | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (import/export studies only) |
| Study variants | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Warning
Historically, Antares user interface was built alongside the simulator as a "rich client". This Legacy interface is now unavailable since v10.0 in favour of Antares Web.
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RTE international can bring their expertise for the installation, use and support of Antares on your infrastructure. More on their website. ↩