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Sun Microsystems® is a global supplier of network computing solutions: servers, storage, software and services. For companies and developers building a complete IT infrastructure, Sun delivers more choice, better value and unsurpassed innovation for network computing. Vision: Everyone and everything participating on the network. Sun's tagline of 25 years is "The Network is the Computer." Sun's mission is to create technologies and fuel communities that power the Participation Age. Sun conducts business in more than 100 countries around the globe. For more information, visit www.sun.com.

Windows HPC Server 2008 provides a productive, cost-effective, and high-performance computing (HPC) solution that runs on x64-bit hardware. Windows HPC Server 2008 can be deployed, managed, and extended using familiar tools and technologies.

Windows HPC Server 2008 enables broader adoption of HPC by providing a rich and integrated end-user experience scaling from the desktop application to the clusters. A wide range of software vendors, in various verticals, have designed their applications to work seamlessly with Windows HPC Server 2008 so that users can submit and monitor jobs from within familiar applications without having to learn new or complex user interfaces.

Developing parallel programs requires integrated development environments along with support for distributed computing standards. Visual Studio 2008 provides a comprehensive parallel programming environment for Windows HPC Server 2008. In addition to supporting OpenMP, MPI, and Web Services, Windows HPC Server 2008 also supports third-party numerical library providers, performance optimizers, compilers, and a native parallel debugger for developing and troubleshooting parallel programs. For more information, visit www.microsoft.com/hpc.

Tata Technologies Limited, founded in 1989, is a global leader in Engineering Services Outsourcing (ESO) and Product Development IT services to the global manufacturing industry. Tata Technologies, through its pragmatic approach to engineering and manufacturing processes, delivers best-in-class solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) and Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) to the world’s leading automotive and aerospace manufacturers and their suppliers.

Tata Technologies is headquartered in Singapore, with regional headquarters offices in the United States (Novi, Michigan), India (Pune) and the UK (Luton). The company has a combined global work force of more than 4,000 employees serving clients worldwide from facilities in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Tata Technologies
BreitwiesenstraBe 19
70565 Stuttgart
Deutschland
Ph: 49 (0)711 789 09-0
Fax: 49 (0)711 789 09-99
www.tatatechnologies.com

Regional offices in
Dortmund and Munich

FEV Motorentechnik GmbH is an independent engineering service supplier offering high-tech solutions in the field of automotive powertrain and vehicle development. FEV employs more than 1,800 highly skilled employees at its headquarters in Aachen, Germany and other technology centers in the U.S., China, India, Poland and in representative offices all over the world. Our customers include the global automotive manufacturers and their suppliers. In addition to engineering services, FEV offers development, production and service of test and instrumentation systems for powertrain development and validation.

VI-Grade has been founded as spin-off from MSC.Software in 2005. Founders are pioneers in CAE of mechanical systems.

VI grade's mission is to provide solutions for virtual product development to manufacturers of complex mechatronic products, by offering integrated high class simulation software, research and consulting services.

The company has 25 employees and contractors in 7 locations worldwide and an international partner network exists in 10 countries.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI conducts research in the field of computer simulations for product and process development, and is a prominent corporate partner in the industrial and science sectors.

SCAI designs and optimizes industrial applications, implements custom solutions for production and sales procedures, and offers calculations on high-performance computers. Our services are based on industrial engineering, combined with state-of-the-art methods from applied mathematics and information technology.

The core aspects of research and development are:
- Tools for the analysis of simulation results
- Compression techniques for simulation applications
- Parameter optimisation
- Robust Design
- Scalable solver technology
- Performance optimisation (e.g. cache, parallel computers)
- Data parallel compiler technologies

VISTAGY, Inc.
200 5th Avenue
Waltham, MA 02451
U.S.A.
www.vistagy.com

VISTAGY, Inc. develops software that turns popular commercial 3D CAD systems into specialized engineering environments that help engineers at design-driven companies create better products faster, easier and more cost effectively. The company works with manufacturers chiefly in the aerospace, automotive and marine industries, with customers ranging from The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky Aircraft, SPARTA, Inc. and Team Prada to the world champion Renault F1 Team.

The company was founded in 1991 on the belief that when given the right software tools and access to information, engineers will make better decisions, develop truly innovative products and solve the world's most vexing engineering problems.

ESTECO
AREA Science Park
Padriciano, 99
34012 Trieste
Italy
sales@esteco.com
www.esteco.com

ESTECO is a software company in the private sector which operates in the field of numerical optimisation and simulation covering the IT-related aspects of the design process. The company is considered a technological leader in the sector of design optimisation software thanks to the high quality of his software products like modeFRONTIER®.

ESTECO activities are targeted at the following objectives:
* meeting the needs of companies seeking to create competitive products and to achieve a return on software investment by integrating numerical models in their design and production processes;
* assisting designers and research workers with the acquisition of expertise in design optimisation;
* delivering optimisation-driven solution through advanced engineering services

vMACH Engineering GmbH
Ottmarshart 16
85229 Markt Indersdorf
Germany
Ph: 49 8136-229851
Fax: 49 8136-92004
office@vonmach.com
www.vonmach.com

vMACH Engineering GmbH was established in 1993 as an engineering office and fast became an automotive industry development partner. The evolution of vMACH Engineering continues in two principal directions: Software Development and Engineering Analysis and Computation. So far we created and developed our own software tools and technology which in conjunction with our experience in software programming and in the area of engineering analysis makes it possible to create any engineering software system according to customer problems

Software offer:
FEGraph Postprocessor for static and dynamic analysis with integrated 3D graphics and XY-plotting tool and many interfaces including reading measured data with special features for NVH applications as acoustic , Model Identification, TPA, Data Comparison

FEOptim Pre- and postprocessor tool for optimization, especially in NVH analysis and Model Updating supported not only all nastran functions, bus improved the optimizations with many developed (Beta method, sensitivity analysis, automatically generation of target and restraints equations)

FETest - Test Data Processor optimised for Analysis Engineers. Perhaps the first software of the world, which is also optimized for identification of large, complicated FE-models as well as test data. Automatic workflow makes modal analyse easy also for laics.

ESTEQ
Esteq Block 6,
Tijgervallei Office Park
Silverlakes Road
Silverlakes
0081 Pretoria, Gauteng
South Africa
Ph: 27 (0) 12 809 9500
Fax: 27 (0) 86 528 8284
www.esteq.com

ESTEQ is at the forefront of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), through a passion for engineering technology, solving current business challenges today, and turning tomorrow's vision into reality.

We are a team of engineers and professionals, dedicated to serve the industry using world class software, hardware and integrated knowledge.

"The term PLM itself was broadly adopted in 2001, defining the application footprint and business process of PLM as everything from ideation and initial design to engineering, direct material sourcing, ramp-up of manufacturing and asset lifecycle management. PLM enables companies to solve strategic issues that influence the success of the product lifecycle from beginning to end. Companies are adopting PLM to manage entire product portfolios and expedite the digital transformation of their manual business processes."- Cobus Oosthuizen

IBM
www.ibm.com/deepcomputing

International Business Machines Corporation is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

With over 350,000 employees worldwide, IBM is the largest information technology employer in the world. IBM holds more patents than any other U.S. based technology company. It has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and IBM Research has eight laboratories worldwide. IBM employees have earned three Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. As a chip maker, IBM is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders.

DYNAmore GmbH
Industriestr. 2
D-70565 Stuttgart
Ph: 49 (0)7 11-45 96 00-0
Fax: 49 (0)7 11-45 96 00-29
E-Mail: info@dynamore.de
www.dynamore.de

DYNAmore is dedicated to support and distribute LS-DYNA, LS-OPT and related software products for crash analysis, metal forming and optimization. With the German based company, LS-DYNA users in several European countries have convenient and effective access to the vast experience in LS-DYNA available at DYNAmore, which assures a qualified support for the users.

Phoenix Integration
www.phoenix-int.com

Phoenix Integration, a global leader in Software Integration and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, enables integration of models and simulations, process automation, results visualization and data management in the conceptual and preliminary stages of product design and systems analysis. Global organizations that leverage Phoenix solutions include nine of the top 10 U.S. defense contractors and seven of the top 10 aerospace companies.

Mentor Graphics GmbH
Mechanical Analysis Division
Hanauer LandstraBe 188
60314 Frankfurt am Main
Ph: 49 69 130253 0
Fax: 49.69.130253 53
www.mentor.com/
products/mechanical/

The latest evolution in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Engineering Fluid Dynamics (EFD)

The Mechanical Analysis Division of Mentor Graphics (formerly Flomerics and NIKA GmbH) provides the world's most advanced computational fluid dynamics products. Our simulation software and consultancy services eliminate mistakes, reduce costs, and accelerate and optimize designs involving heat transfer and fluid flow before physical prototypes are built. Tightly integrated with major MCAD systems including Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, and CATIA, FloEFD is fully-featured 3D fluid flow and heat transfer analysis software without the numerical complexity and meshing overhead of traditional CFD.

Analisis y Simulacion S.L. (AyS)
www.analisisysimulacion.com

Analisis y Simulacion S.L. (AyS) is a privately held company based in Spain, dedicated to implement solutions and services in the IT ENGINEERING environment. We deliver best in class solutions to the industry, focusing in the product and process development areas. Our team of enthusiastic engineers help companies implementing and developing state of the are technology. Our Engineers work alongside our customers reaching their objectives in a very cost effective manner. We have been pioneers in Spain and since 2004 our services have been required all over the world, working with top leading customers across the globe.