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SGI (NYSE:SGI), Mountain View, Calif., has announced that industry-leading mechanical computer-aided engineering (MCAE) software applications are immediately available on the SGI(R) Altix(TM) 3000 family of servers and superclusters, the first high- performance Linux(R) HPC environment capable of scaling to hundreds of processors with global shared memory.
A variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace and defense, and general manufacturing, rely on MCAE applications to improve design quality and reduce design-cycle time and costs. By combining the leading HPC technologies of the Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, the open-source Linux operating system and SGI(R) NUMAflex(TM) system architecture, the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters offers the capability to meet the essential needs of MCAE simulation environments for advanced product development.
Manufacturing companies and research organizations employ commercial MCAE software from a variety of independent software vendors. The list of MCAE applications immediately available for SGI Altix includes ABAQUS(R) from ABAQUS Inc., LS-DYNA(R) from Livermore Software Technology Corp., MSC.Nastran(TM) and MSC.Marc(TM) from MSC.Software Corp., and STAR-CD(TM) from CD adapco Group. Over the next several months, additional MCAE software is undergoing development and is expected to become available soon. This software includes...