Press Release
MD Nastran Achieves New Leading Performance Benchmark, Demonstrating Speed and Processing Power for Real-World Engine Analysis
SANTA ANA, CALIF. - May 9, 2006 - MSC.Software Corp. (OTC: MNSC), the global leader of enterprise simulation solutions, today announced MD Nastran achieved two new leading performance benchmarks for engine analysis issued by the German Association for Research on Automobile-Technique (FAT).
"Engine models have many millions of degrees of freedom (DOF) making them very large and requiring as much as several days processing time, that MD Nastran reduces to hours," said Reza Sadeghi, vice president, product development, Enterprise Computing, MSC.Software Corporation.
The following results from the FAT benchmark models demonstrate the fast processing and performance results achieved with MD Nastran.
Engine Block Linear Simulation with MD Nastran
Model size: 25 Million DOF
Compute resources: IBM p5-570, 16 (2.2 GHz) POWER5+ processors, 128GB RAM
Elapsed time for 2 static load cases: 1 hour, 35 minutes (1 CPU, 16GB)
Elapsed time for 20 eigenmodes: 9 hours, 5 minutes (8 CPUs, 60GB)
Engine Block, Head and Gasket Nonlinear Simulation with MD Nastran
Model size: 10.5 Million DOF
Compute resources: Itanium2, 1.6 GHz and 2x2 CPU's DMP (distributed memory parallel), 9GB RAM
Elapsed time for 2 load cases (pretension and pressure): 50,200 seconds (13.9-hours)
"Processing speed and performance are crucial for cutting costs and enabling innovation," said Glenn Wienkoop, president and chief operating officer, MSC.Software Corporation. "The automotive industry understands these crucial issues and runs standard benchmarks used by its members for comparison of competing products. In this study MD Nastran was evaluated against other solvers and continued to highlight superior capability and performance time enabling more "what-if" scenarios that can increase innovation, reduce errors and accelerate time to market."
For more information on large simulations with MD Nastran, please visit http://www.mscsoftware.com
About MSC.Software Corporation
MSC.Software (OTC: MNSC) is a leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions, including simulation software and services, 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 23 countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit www.mscsoftware.com.
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