MD on Demand

Get Reality with MD Nastran™ and IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand
MSC Software and IBM have partnered to develop one of the most powerful simulation engineering solutions in the world, MD on Demand. MD on Demand supports IBM's on demand initiative and provides a flexible, rapid and strategic solution for customers' business environments. MD on Demand is a hosted service where customers can perform MD Nastran analysis in the IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD) centers. MD on Demand is intended to be a service that provides additional capacity in surge situations or provide an option to customers who have a need to perform complex simulations but not on a regular enough basis to justify the purchase of the application and the supporting infrastructure.

IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD)
IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand® (DCCoD) provides companies with flexible access to vast computing power capable of handling large workloads. DCCoD members have on-tap access to secure, isolated high-performance computing (HPC) environments that can be used like on-site hardware, without the capital commitment and maintenance costs. When computing demands exceed in-house capacity clients can easily shift the excess workload to an IBM DCCoD center and purchase the processing capacity necessary to meet demand. IBM DCCoD offers significant technology choice including IBM POWER 5+™ - the fastest MD Nastran platform, IBM PowerPC® found in BlueGene®, Intel® Xeon® or AMD Opteron™ processor-based server nodes supporting AIX®, Linux® or Microsoft® Windows®. Additionally, DCCoD offers proven cluster management software, optional interconnects and value added services. Rest assured, when IBM is empowered to host, maintain and support your HPC computing capacity needs, you are free to focus on the engineering and business operations. Ultimately, DCCoD delivers customers a way to bring better products to market-typically faster and at a lower cost than traditional capacity procurement.

MD Nastran
Delivering the most comprehensive set of simulation and analysis technologies available anywhere, MD Nastran offers true multidiscipline simulation in one, fully-integrated system. It is the most powerful and widely used simulation solution in the world, and has been the simulation product of choice for over four decades.

Relied upon by NASA to co-develop the original Nastran software in 1965, MSC.Software has continued to expand the original Nastran code base to offer its highly developed and extended proprietary version of Nastran to major manufacturers around the globe. Since 2001, MSC.Software has additionally invested over 500 person-years in development, engineering MD Nastran into a simulation product of unparalleled breadth and power.