Press Release
MSC.Software's Nonlinear and Linux Cluster Technology Enables Efficient Engineering Simulation for Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Mar. 26, 2002 - MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE: MNS), the leading global provider of simulation software, services and systems, and Nittetsu Plant Design, an affiliate company of Nippon Steel Corp., today announced that the Nittetsu's System Engineering Department has selected MSC.Marc's Domain Decomposition Method (DDM) and the MSC.Linux cluster system to solve complex engineering problems. Nittetsu Plant Design specializes in designing iron-making processes and environmental plants.
"Manufacturers around the world are finding extraordinary value in the nonlinear analysis capabilities of MSC.Marc running on the MSC.Linux operating system," said Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "MSC.Software's work with Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation is an example of the ways in which we are helping manufacturers and engineers save time and money by combining simulation software like MSC.Marc's DDM and computing platforms like MSC.Linux."
For Nittetsu's evaluation of the MSC.Marc's DDM and MSC.Linux technologies, MSC.Software conducted a benchmark study on thermal and stress analysis on both UNIX and Linux environments. This benchmark showed that analysis performed under Linux cluster is significantly faster than UNIX for thermal and stress analysis.
"Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation expects to find further efficiencies in the design process for in-house and engineering phenomenon by performing more analysis case testing and large-model analysis with the DDM parallel computing capabilities in MSC.Marc under a Linux cluster environment," said Atsushi Yumoto, System Engineering Department of Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation.
MSC.Marc is a general-purpose finite element program for advanced engineering simulation. The MSC.Marc family of products has evolved and matured through constant development and worldwide use by thousands of engineers involved in the most challenging problems in structural physics.
With 40-years of experience in high-performance computing across many industries, MSC.Software is leveraging its strengths in scientific and technical computing to deliver its customers state-of-the-art, high performance computing solutions based on clustering computers (Beowulf clusters) and the specially engineered high performance operating system- MSC.Linux.
About Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation
Nittetsu Plant Design Corporation an affiliate company of Nippon Steel Corp., mainly designs iron-making process and environmental plants. The System Engineering Division provides system development services and engineering consultation support for CAD, CAE and FA physical distribution with its high performance computer engineering resources. For more information, please visit http://www.iijnet.or.jp/npd_ca/
About MSC.Software Corporation
MSC.Software (NYSE: MNS) is the leading global provider of simulation software, with related services and systems, that helps companies make money, save time and reduce costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop better products faster by utilizing information technology, software, services and systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1200 people in 22 countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit www.mscsoftware.com.
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