CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 February 2005
Product News
MSC.Software Releases MSC.Nastran for 64-Bit AMD OpteronT Processor-Based Systems
MSC.Software Corp. announced the availability of MSC.Nastran for 32- and 64-bit AMD OpteronT processor-based systems. The 64-bit version of MSC.Nastran on AMD Opteron processor-based systems has demonstrated performance improvements of up to 15% compared to similar engineering simulations run on a 32-bit architecture.
"Many of our customers use our software to solve extremely large engineering problems and MSC.Nastran for AMD Opteron processor-based systems can help them solve these problems faster and even tackle extremely large problems they may have not been able to attempt before," said Bill Weyand, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "We look forward to continuing our work with AMD and our other partners so our customers can use the latest technology and improved simulation solving times to reduce product development time and costs."
"This release gives users the first benefits of our work with MSC.Software to deliver production-quality 64-bit MSC.Nastran on AMD Opteron processor-based systems with Direct Connect Architecture," said Pat Patla, director, Server/Workstation Marketing, Microprocessor Business Unit, Computation Products Group, AMD. "AMD and MSC.Software share a commitment to improving performance, productivity, and cost-effective solutions for analysis-driven organizations."
The 64-bit MSC.Nastran for AMD Opteron processors currently runs on SuSE 9.0, SuSE 9.1 and RH 3.0 operating systems. For more information on MSC.Nastran, please visit http://www.mscnastran.com .
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