Collaboration Promotes Joint Product Offering, MD on Demand
SANTA ANA, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MSC.Software Corp.
(OTC: MNSC), the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions
including simulation software and services today announced that it has
teamed with IBM to jointly offer MD on Demand in conjunction with the IBM
Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD) offering. This collaboration will
enable customers to take advantage of MD Nastran in an on demand
environment to meet peak analysis demands to ensure right-to-market and
minimize time-to-market for products in highly competitive environments.
MD on Demand supports IBM's on demand initiative and provides a
flexible, rapid and strategic solution for customers' business
environments. MD on Demand is a hosted service where customers can perform
MD Nastran analysis in the DCCOD Centers. MD on Demand is intended to be a
service that provides additional capacity in surge situations or provide an
option to customers who have a need to perform complex simulations but not
on a regular enough basis to justify the purchase of the application and
the supporting infrastructure.
"MD on Demand is an excellent example of true innovation in the area of
enterprise simulation and has the potential to be an ideal solution to run
in the IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand centers," said David Gelardi,
vice president of Deep Computing, IBM. "The DCCoD global centers contain
over 14,000 processors including the MD Nastran performance leader, the
System p5(TM) with powerful new POWER 5+(TM) technology. This massive
computing power helps enable customers to scale beyond in-house limits on
an on demand basis. IBM DCCoD when combined with MD on Demand can offer
flexibility, potential cost savings and help address the most demanding
simulation problems."
"Utility computing is an emerging opportunity in the technical
computing market and is seeing continuing investment from both systems and
applications suppliers. IDC believes that one of the major advantages
utility strategies offer end users is the ability to access specialized
computational resources on an as needed basis," said Christopher Willard,
IDC Technical Computing Systems vice president. "Multidiscipline
simulations combine independent aspects of product design problems into a
single unified analysis. Up until recently, such analysis was limited by
both the availability of raw computing power and generally available
applications software. The MD on Demand offering provides both the hardware
and the software components to users on an as needed basis."
"MD on Demand is based on MD Nastran, widely considered to be the
world's most powerful enterprise simulation solution," said Andy Meyer,
vice president of corporate marketing at MSC.Software. "By providing
engineers with integrated and multidiscipline simulation capabilities of
this depth and breadth, we are providing them with the confidence in their
product's performance under a multitude of conditions. MD on Demand
provides customers additional costs flexibility and by providing these
capabilities on demand via MD on Demand, the cost savings are even
greater."
For more information about the MD on Demand offering, please visit
http://mdondemand.mscsoftware.com
About MSC.Software Corporation
MSC.Software (OTC: MNSC) is the global leader of enterprise simulation
solutions, that help companies make money, save time and reduce costs
associated with designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software
works with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop
better products faster by utilizing information technology, software,
services and systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1200 people in 23
countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and
services, please visit http://www.mscsoftware.com.
Safe Harbor Language
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including all
statements relating to the features, benefits, capabilities and performance
of MD on Demand, MD Nastran and other MSC.Software products. These
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, changes in technology, the
end-user computing and analysis environment, implementation and support
that meet evolving customer requirements, general industry trends and the
impact of competitive products.
Furthermore, information provided herein, which is not historical in
nature, are forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All
such forward-looking statements are based largely on management's
expectations and are subject to and qualified by risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed
or implied by such statements. The Company undertakes no duty to update any
forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or
changes in the Company's expectations.
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Demand, MD Nastran, and Patran, are trademarks or registered trademarks of
MSC.Software Corporation in the USA and/or other countries. NASTRAN is a
registered trademark of NASA. All other trademarks belong to their
respective owners.
SOURCE MSC.Software Corp.
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Public Relations, +1-714-445-3119,
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Vice President, Investor Relations, +1-714-444-8551,
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