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Siemens FEA tools helped create the extremely lightweight Solar Impulse 2 plane

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 16, 2015

Femap with NX Nastran is being used to optimise and verify the structure of first plane to circumnavigate the earth…

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First look: Comsol Multiphysics 5.1 expands app capabilities

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 5, 2015

The new release makes it easier to create simulation apps and share them within your team A fully integrated environment…

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Altair investment in FluiDyna points to future for GPU-based CFD simulation technology

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 7, 2015

FluiDyna’s technology uses Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as massively parallel processors Altair and German company FluiDyna, a developer of native…

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AMD unveils new 32GB server GPU for HPC

Posted by Greg Corke - July 10, 2015

AMD is upping the ante in GPU compute with its new FirePro S9170 server GPU that features 32GB of on-board…

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Intel to bring Xeon to mobile workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - August 11, 2015

Historically, if you wanted an Intel Xeon in your mobile workstation you needed to buy a specialist machine from the…

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Ansys launch free student package for simulation workflows

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 20, 2015

Students all over the world now have free access to Ansys simulation tools Giving students a broad scope of mechanics…

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CD-adapco introduces computational rheology to Star-CCM+

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 28, 2015

Computational rheology adds the ability to solve new flow simulations within the Star-CCM interface With the fanfare that it’s latest…

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Siemens to acquire CD-Adapco for close to $1 billion

Posted by Al Dean - January 26, 2016

News in late last night took us by surprise – Siemens is intent on acquiring CD-Adapco for just a shade…

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Reviews

Review: SimScale

Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 18, 2016

Simulation is an area ripe for cloud-based delivery and SimScale is looking to take advantage. Al Dean investigates the company's…

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First Look: CompoSide 2.8.2 – materials and more for composite parts design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 17, 2016

CompoSide v2.8.2 supports all composites material types including adhesives, cores, fibres, matrix and plies Composites design can be slow going,…

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