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SGI Expands CFD Capability with OpenCFD Acquisition

After acquiring OpenCFD last month, SGI said it would continue to offer the company's flagship open-source CFD software, OpenFOAM, free to the business, government and academic communities under the ...Full Article

CFD Is on a Roll

Advanced modeling software helps manufacturing companies work smarter and faster.Full Article

From Detonation to Diapers at Los Alamos National Laboratory

When you think of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) what comes to mind? Perhaps the first atomic test on July 16, 1945? Or scientists today busily tending the US ...Full Article

Case Study: AAI Corporation Builds Competitiveness with HPC and the ‘Black Art’ of Computational Fluid Dynamics

A few years ago, AAI Corporation hired Dr. Michael Guterres to lead its Aircraft Engineering Department. The company knew it had to elevate its design capabilities to be more ...Full Article

Designing Bicycle Wheels in the Cloud

While riding a bike may be easy, the aerodynamics involved in wheel design are complex, requiring powerful CFD software running on high-performance computer systems. The simulations generate so much ...Full Article

Virgin Racing Releases Details of Strategic Partnership

Virgin's new technical partnership with McLaren includes access to both virtual and physical design tools.Full Article

Altair’s Approach to Solving the Software Licensing Problem

Licensing is one of the major stumbling blocks to the spread of digital manufacturing technology among small- to medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs). Rapid advances in CAE software, especially in modeling ...Full Article

Case Study: Making Cars Go Faster with Platform HPC

Swift Engineering has been designing and manufacturing high-end race cars since 1983. A small company with limited IT resources, Swift required an affordable state-of-the-art HPC solution that would boost ...Full Article

Case Study: Software Vendor Expands CFD Reach by Adding Cloud

Symscape, a developer of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, wanted to expand its customer base by making its CFD system even more affordable. The company used "burst to Windows ...Full Article

From Safety to EcoBoost: HPC Enables Innovation and Productivity at Ford Motor Company

After an intense 30-year working relationship with supercomputers — ranging from early water-cooled Crays to today's commodity clusters — engineers at the Ford Motor Company view modeling and simulation ...Full Article

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