ESI Group announces Visual Environment on Windows 64-bit

ESI Group (ESIN FR0004110310), a leading provider of digital simulation software based on the physics of materials, has federated its multi-disciplinary solvers technology in the Visual Environment platform. This suite of software offers a proven engineering simulation solution based on openness, together with extended interoperability with tier CAE solutions.

[ClickPress, Mon Dec 18 2006] ESI Group (ESIN FR0004110310), a leading provider of digital simulation software based on the physics of materials, has federated its multi-disciplinary solvers technology in the Visual Environment platform. This suite of software offers a proven engineering simulation solution based on openness, together with extended interoperability with tier CAE solutions.

Vincent Chaillou, President and Chief Operating Officer of Product Operations at ESI Group, says, “Visual Environment is the integration of ESI Group’s expertise. It results in a unique hub which provides to ESI Group and its customers an enterprise engineering software solution.”

Visual Environment improves the effectiveness of business productivity and innovation for engineering enterprise software solutions. The software manages with consistency the transport of compute models, which empowers simulation-based design, accelerates product development and innovation, and reduces costs and time to market. The Visual Environment integrated solution portfolio bridges low- to high-end requirements, knowledge processes and data, and engineering workflows, all of which can be managed in a structured way.

Visual Environment is based on an embedded data model which offers an extended environment where new applications and interfaces with tier solutions are easily implemented. It supports ESI Group solvers like PAM-CRASH and PAM-MEDYSA, as well as NASTRAN, RADIOSS, LS-DYNA or MADYMO. It also provides a development toolkit enabling users to develop their own applications, or else integrate their existing ones in order to get the complete benefits of a simulation platform. Using the Intel Xeon® Processor 5100 Series and Windows 64-bit, engineers can work interactively with huge models of over 4.5 million finite elements, which require more than 3 to 4 Gigabits of memory.

“We are pleased that Visual Environment, the latest ESI product, optimised for our new Intel® Xeon® Processors 5100 Series, helps ESI’s customers to reach new levels of performance on their simulation environment. The Intel® Xeon® Processors 5100 Series, with its Intel® 64 instruction set and Dual Core technology, provides the necessary bandwidth and performance for handling large simulation models while keeping the thermal envelope to reasonable levels,” says Gordon Graylish, Vice President of Sales and Marketing EMEA at Intel.

Within the all-in-one framework, Visual Environment allows users to address multiple applications in different physics-related fields. The great flexibility of Visual Environment, combined with the wide range of applications, fully answers customers’ needs. Within this platform, the different simulation domains can be addressed and chained manually or automatically, while Visual Composer keeps track and offers interoperability between CAD geometry and compute models. In addition, Visual-Process, as part of Visual Environment, provides important productivity gains as it helps engineers to capture, automate and customise CAE processes and engineering best practices in process templates.


About ESI Group

ESI Group is a pioneer and world-leading supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. ESI Group has developed an entire suite of coherent, industry-oriented applications to simulate a product’s behaviour realistically during testing, to fine-tune the manufacturing processes in accordance with the desired product performance, and to evaluate the environment’s impact on product usage.

ESI Group’s products, which have a proven track record in manufacturing and have been combined in multi-trade value chains, represent a unique collaborative, virtual engineering solution, known as the Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous manner. By drastically reducing costs and development lead times, VTOS solutions offer major competitive advantages and make it possible to eliminate gradually the need for physical prototypes. This integrated protocol allows all the company’s solutions to work with each other and with applications developed by independent software vendors. By significantly reducing costs and development lead times and enabling product/process synergies, VTOS solutions progressively eliminate the need for physical prototypes during product development, thus offering major competitive advantages.

ESI Group is listed on the Eurolist compartment C of Euronext Paris, and generated sales of €62.2m in 2005. The company employs over 500 high-level specialists worldwide, and covers more than 30 countries.

Virtual Try-Out Space® and VTOS® are registered trademarks of ESI Group. All other products, names and companies mentioned in this press release are brands, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
For further information, please go to: www.esi-group.com

About Intel Corporation

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance the way that people work and live. Intel, which was founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today Intel is both the world's largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products.

For further information, please go to: www.intel.com/intel/index.htm

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