The MSC Patran Analysis Manager provides convenient and automatic submittal, monitoring, control and general management of analysis jobs to local or remote networked systems. Primary benefits of using the Analysis Manager are engineering productivity and efficient use of local and corporate network-wide computing resources for finite element analysis.

The Analysis Manager has its own scheduling capability. If commercially available queueing software, such as LSF (Load Sharing Facility) from Platform Computing Ltd. or NQS is available, then the Analysis Manager can be configured to work closely with it.

This release of the MSC Patran Analysis Manager works explicitly with MD Nastran & MSC.Marc releases up to version 2006, and versions of ABAQUS up to 6.x. It also has a general capability which allows almost any software analysis application to be supported in a generic way.

For more information on how to contact your local MSC representative see Technical Support, xi.