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Abaqus is currently available on the nic-cluster and various Windows CLCs on campus.
You can find more general infromation about abaqus at http://www.3ds.com/
On the NIC cluster abaqus can be used both interactively and through batch processing in the queue system.
Note all the tutorials below jsut show how to launch the application and see results. There are currently no available tutorials for Abaqus itself just it's general use on the cluser.
The general abaqus documentation at http://nic-cluster.mst.edu/abaqus/ will give the general information needed for abaqus on Windows.
We are currenly working on a Windows Tutorial.