CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
15 November 2005
Product News
MSC.Software Announces Support of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
MSC.Software Corp . announced its support of the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. MSC.Software has developed MSC.Nastran and MSC.Marc native ports for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 to provide customers with access to more memory to solve larger problems, faster.
MSC.Nastran is a widely used finite element analysis (FEA) program for simple to complex, linear and nonlinear analyses of structural, fluid, thermal, and coupled systems. MSC.Marc is a powerful, advanced, general-purpose nonlinear FEA product for simulating a wide range of engineering applications and manufacturing processes. MSC.Nastran and MSC.Marc will integrate with Microsoft MPI which is a part of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and offer customers world class solution performance.
"As the leader in Virtual Product Development, MSC.Software is providing beta support of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. Our upcoming release of MSC.Nastran will integrate with Microsoft MPI and Microsoft Job Scheduler technologies to include advanced optimizations and extend the performance customers will see with high-end analysis," said Frank Kovacs, vice president of strategic alliances, MSC.Software. We will continue to strengthen our collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the delivery of low cost enterprise VPD solutions that enable our customers to reduce time-to-market and increase market share."
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is Microsoft's official entry into the world of high-performance computing (HPC), and is designed to accelerate time-to-insight by providing an HPC platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools. MSC.Software's upcoming releases of MSC.Nastran and
MSC.Marc with native ports into the Windows Server System will help organizations scale up beyond the limits of the 32-bit x86 architecture, with highly scalable HPC system resources.
"We are pleased to be working with MSC.Software to enable our HPC customers to benefit from both Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and applications such as MSC.Nastran and MSC.Marc," said Kyril Faenov, director of high performance computing, Microsoft Corp. "With a solid HPC infrastructure and broad availability of compatible applications, customers can take advantage of HPC solutions that are easy to deploy, manage and use."
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