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CST Particle Studio

Short description

3D electromagnetic simulations with and without exciting source beam (wakefield solver, eigenmode solver, time domain solver, frequency domain solver)

Web resources

  • Installer: installation through CMF or from \\cern.ch\DFS\Applications\CST
  • Product webpage: https://www.cst.com/

Technical information

  • Parallelization strategy:

    • MPI (requires license) and multithreading ("for free")

  • Operating systems:

    • Windows and Linux (optimized so far primarily for Windows)

  • Other prerequisites:

    • requires valid viewer, solver and acceleration licenses
    • can run on standard PC for small scale study, but requires dedicated servers for large scale.

Other information

  • License: commercial license
  • Contact persons: Benoit Salvant, Monika Balk (at CST), and support line via tickets
  • Being actively developed and supported: Yes, by the company