Companies Partner to Establish Stochastic Simulation ASP; EASi, TeraPort to Develop Advanced Engineering Technology

    DETROIT, May 9 A Metro Detroit-based engineering company
has partnered with an Application Service Provider (ASP) in Germany to develop
the first worldwide stochastic simulation facility online.
    EASi, an organization specializing in computer-aided engineering and
information technology services, will begin developing the ASP immediately
with TeraPort, a German ASP specializing in mechanical and electronic
engineering and life sciences.  The ASP will allow customers to conduct
stochastic simulation -- a math-based solution that helps users account for
the uncertainties present in all engineering test data.
    According to Prakash Krishnaswamy, president and CEO of EASi, the ASP will
utilize EASi's ST-ORM, an advanced software tool for performing stochastic
simulation of physical systems, such as vehicles, and TeraPort's TeraPortal,
which provides access to engineering applications such as Crash, NVH,
Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Structural Mechanics.
    "The ASP will help customers account for uncertainties that occur in test
data.  For example, if you run five physical crash tests on a car, the test
results will change each time because of many types of variations that occur,
such as the angle of impact, the position of the vehicle's tires on the road,
and tolerances in the vehicle's construction," Krishnaswamy said.  "ST-ORM is
a tool that mathematically accounts for these uncertainties, and provides you
with data that you can use to improve the design of your physical system, in
addition to making it robust over a wide range of operational conditions.
    "This ASP will enable large-scale stochastic simulation to become
accessible to users via the TeraPortal engineering gateway, which meets all
requirements concerning security, availability, scalability and extensiveness.
It's going to break new ground for ST-ORM, making access to its meta-computing
capability more readily available than ever before."
    Dr. Andreas Rebetzky, managing director of TeraPort, said regardless of
small or large compute requirements, the customer will only pay for resources
that actually have been used, very much like paying a monthly phone bill.
"The ASP model helps small companies acquire access to large computing
resources, and it helps large companies to fulfill peak loads without needing
to invest in permanent resources, which remain idle for most of the time,"
Rebetzky said.
    With a staff of 400 professionals worldwide, EASi is one of the leading
providers of integrated solutions for fast-to-market product development.
EASi's capabilities cover all aspects of engineering and information
technology, including computer-aided design (CAD), concept design and
optimization, safety and vibration analysis, as well as e-business and
software product and technology development.
    TeraPort is an ASP for mechanical and electronic engineering and life
sciences environments.  Its innovative TerePortal gives engineers access to a
portfolio of development and simulation programs.  TerePortal manages both on-
campus Intranet and external Internet Compute Sites, providing global access
to application programs and data.  The only client requirements are an
Internet browser and access rights for the application software selected.

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