Windows

Windows virtual machines (VMs) are supported as batch jobs on HPC systems. This section illustrates how to submit a job and run a Windows instance in order to run Windows applications on the high-performance computing systems.

The following images are pre-configured and made available by staff:

Windows 2016 Server Basic (minimal software pre-loaded)
Windows 2016 Server GIS (GIS Software Stack pre-loaded)

The Windows VMs can be launched in two fashions:

Menu Launcher - Point and click to start
Command Line - Advanced and customized usage

Click each of the above links for detailed instructions on using them.

Link to section 'Software Provided in Pre-configured Virtual Machines' of 'Windows' Software Provided in Pre-configured Virtual Machines

The Windows 2016 Base server image available on Bell has the following software packages preloaded:

Anaconda Python 2 and Python 3
JMP 13
Matlab R2017b
Microsoft Office 2016
Notepad++
NVivo 12
Rstudio
Stata SE 15
VLC Media Player

The Windows 2016 GIS server image available on Bell has the following software packages preloaded:

ArcGIS Desktop 10.5
ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Server 10.5
Anaconda Python 2 and Python 3
ENVI5.3/IDL 8.5
ERDAS Imagine
GRASS GIS 7.4.0
JMP 13
Matlab R2017b
Microsoft Office 2016
Notepad++
Pix4d Mapper
QGIS Desktop
Rstudio
VLC Media Player