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ANSYS and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced today that they have scaled ANSYS® Fluent® to 36,000 compute cores – an industry first that could lead to greater efficiencies and increased innovation throughout manufacturers' product development processes. As companies increasingly seek to minimize time, quality and cost pressures by using engineering simulation, they have been constrained by compute power. High-performance computing (HPC) has become a core strategic technology enabling enhanced insight into product performance and improving the productivity by considering more design variants. The combination of the Blue Waters supercomputer and the Cray Inc. engineering team, the NCSA Private Sector Program technical team, and recent enhancements to the Fluent code enables organizations to study the most complex and realistic simulation cases. Blue Waters uses hundreds of thousands of computational cores to achieve peak performance of more than 13 quadrillion calculations per second. That advanced compute power is helpful for applications like Fluent software, an industry-leading computational fluid dynamics

GRAITEC is excited to announce the launch of their complementary productivity tools for Autodesk Advance Steel, GRAITEC Advance PowerPack. The GRAITEC Advance PowerPack is a powerful extension to Autodesk Advance Steel designed to enhance the user's capability, productivity and efficiency. By introducing industry specific and localized content, tools, templates and connections that complement what is already available in Autodesk Advance Steel, GRAITEC clearly aims to remain a market leader in providing practical technology solutions for the steel industry. GRAITEC Advance PowerPack for Autodesk Advance Steel will provide users with a multitude of new tools and functionality specifically intended to give them a competitive advantage. The first version of GRAITEC Advance PowerPack will introduce new tools for faster modelling, such as continuous beam and folded plate extender, and new capability such as the castellated beam and cellular beam sections, all combined with more intelligent and automated templates, all seamlessly integrated into a new user-friendly ribbon, the

BETA CAE Systems S.A. announces the release of v15.2.0. Developed in close cooperation with our customers, v15.2.0 offers a complete package of new solutions for pre- and post- processing and further facilitates the CAE working ways. BETA CAE System is committed in delivering improved and enhanced software releases, the soonest possible, in order to meet the requirement of their customers for the continuous improvement of their experience and work. Therefore, they are working in releasing new software versions with code corrections, new software features and enhancements, in regular, frequent intervals. A major software version is released every year. First point releases, such as v15.1.0, v15.2.0 and so on, with code corrections but also with additional software features and enhancements are released every three months. Second point releases, such as v15.2.1, v15.2.2, v15.2.3 mainly with code corrections only upon their parent first point release, are scheduled on a monthly basis. Each software release is accompanied by

BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of v15.1.3 of ANSA / μETA pre- and post- processing suite. This maintenance release focuses on the correction of identified issues for the ANSA / μETA 15.1x branch and is addressed to those who wish to continue to use the v15.1x branch with its issues resolved. BETA CAE System is committed in delivering improved and enhanced software releases, the soonest possible, in order to meet the requirement of their customers for the continuous improvement of their experience and work. Therefore, they are working in releasing new software versions with code corrections, new software features and enhancements, in regular, frequent intervals. A major software version is released every year. First point releases, such as v15.1.0, v15.2.0 and so on, with code corrections but also with additional software features and enhancements are released every three months. Second point releases, such as v15.2.1, v15.2.2, v15.2.3 mainly with code corrections only

InspectionXpert Corporation announces the release of the new InspectionXpert OnDemand for CAD, a new quality planning and documentation software platform that supports both 3D model-based and 2D print-based formats. InspectionXpert OnDemand for CAD means end users who need to create inspection packages can now save money and time using the same workflow regardless of input file format. Key highlights of InspectionXpert OnDemand for CAD: Does not require a CAD license to view, balloon, and extract inspection data for reporting Supports both 3D Model-based definition (MBD) and traditional 2D print-based inspection planning Create 3D and 2D PDFs from CAD models Support new DOD Model Based Definition (MBD) standards Standardize MBD inspection plans in your supply chain. Uses InspectionXpert OnDemand™ technology for secure, instant access from any computer at any time Learn more about InspectionXpert OnDemand for CAD. “InspectionXpert OnDemand is the simplest and fastest way to generate quality inspection forms and ballooned inspection drawings or MBD inspection models,” explains Jeff

DLT Solutions announced that it was awarded two blanket purchase agreements (BPA) with NASA. The first contract is an $8 million BPA with one base year and three option years to provide Autodesk® software and services. The second contract, providing industry-leading open source software and services from Red Hat, is a one-year BPA with three option years and no ceiling amount. Both contracts are new, single-award wins for DLT Solutions and are available to all NASA centers, Associated Facilities and NASA funded programs through the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC). In addition, both contracts provide NASA with a more streamlined and cost-efficient process for procuring Autodesk and Red Hat software and services while reducing administration costs and offering price reductions through a tiered discount model. “DLT Solutions is proud to be the sole awardee for both NASA contracts,” explained Brian Strosser, executive vice president of sales and marketing for DLT Solutions. “They are significant strategic wins that strengthen our relationship

Rand Worldwide, Inc., announces its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014.  For the three months ended September 30, 2014, Rand Worldwide, Inc. reported total revenues of $20,782,000, an increase of $2,746,000, or 15.2%, compared to the same quarter in the prior fiscal year. The Company’s overall gross margin percentage increased slightly from 46.8% to 47.6% mainly due to a positive revenue mix. Total selling, general and administrative expenses increased by 11% for the three months ended September 30, 2014 over the same period in the prior year as a result of $937,000 of transaction costs related to the Company’s recently concluded tender offer. In total, the Company reported income from continuing operations of $605,000, or $0.01 per diluted share for the quarter ended September 30, 2014, compared with $108,000 or $0.00 per diluted share, for the same quarter of the prior year.  During the first quarter of fiscal year

Delcam will preview a new rib-machining module for its PowerMILL CAM system on stand H57 in Hall 8 at the Euromold exhibition to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, from 25th to 28th November.  The new module, which will be available as part of the PowerMILL 2015 R2 release scheduled for January 2015, will speed up and simplify the machining into tooling of cavities to form ribs. Reinforcing ribs are required in many types of plastic mouldings, from electrical housings to containers to furniture.  They are typically much deeper than they are wide, which poses special challenges when machining the cavities needed to form them.  In many cases, these challenges prompt companies to use EDM to form the features rather than machining. The new PowerMILL module makes it much easier and safer to program the machining of cavities for narrow ribs, even when the cutter’s length is much greater than its diameter.  Using a dedicated

Dassault Systèmes announced that it has reached a significant milestone in its project aimed at driving the creation and use of simulated 3D personalized hearts in the treatment and diagnosis of heart diseases and medical device development. Powered by Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s realistic simulation applications, The “Living Heart Project” announced in May of this year, has rapidly moved its first realistic 3D heart simulator into beta test, validated the efficacy of a device and has surpassed 30 contributing member organizations. As a key step of this initiative, Dassault Systèmes has signed a five-year collaborative research agreement with the United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which will initially target the development of testing paradigms for the insertion, placement and performance of pacemaker leads and other cardiovascular devices used to treat heart disease. Using a technology crowdsourcing model that protects the intellectual property of each member, yet enables all to share the outcome, the “Living Heart Project”

IMS Software announced the signing of a reseller agreement with Avantage Mécanique, Inc. of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. “Our post-processing experts have used IMS for over 10 years and never reached the limits of the possibility that IMSpost offers. Any machining process can be supported, any kinematics, even with more than 5 simultaneous axis” said Vincent Thomasset, Director of Innovation and Business Development. “IMSpost’s open design allows advanced logic and custom macros to be integrated into our post-processors, adding intelligence to the NC generation process.” “And with IMSce, the controller emulator functionality opens up a whole new world of possibilities with its integration with CATIA V5 and V6. Post-processing and simulation in a single window will dramatically boost productivity.” “Avantage Mécanique will offer significant value to manufacturing companies in Quebec and across Canada” said Dan Wrenn, president and co-founder of IMS Software. “They are assembling a world-class engineering services organization focused on the most