Engineers Now Make Multiple Design Iterations per Day with ALGOR Faster Processing

    PITTSBURGH--June 4, 2002--ALGOR, Inc., a leading maker of software for mechanical engineers, recently added new fast solvers that support parallel processing on multi-processor systems.
    This new solver technology is available for all analysis types including linear static stress, Mechanical Event Simulation (MES), electrostatics, fluid flow and heat transfer. These updates provide significantly faster processing times through sparse solver technology that utilizes the power of all available system processors to perform parallel solutions and reduce solution time.
    Ray Mort of AVT Engineering Company in Hurst, Texas, said, "The new sparse solver technology for MES significantly improves my analysis runtimes. I can now verify several design iterations during the course of a day on models that used to require overnight analysis runs."
    ALGOR engineers also benchmarked the analysis runtimes of various models to test the performance of the new fast solvers on dual-processor systems. In these studies, an MES analysis of a CAD model finished in 11.3 minutes with the new solver compared to 138 minutes with the previous solver, speeding up by a factor of 12.2. The new fluid flow solver completed an unsteady analysis of a model approximately 16.4 times faster in a similar comparison. For steady-state heat transfer, the new solver completed analysis of a CAD model approximately 733% faster at 9.3 minutes, compared to 68.2 minutes with the previous solver.
    Based on these and other results, the new solvers provided performance gains for all analysis types on both single- and dual-processor systems. Unlike iterative solvers that provide only approximate results, ALGOR's new solver technology provides exact mathematical solutions.
    The software is available for PC workstations running Windows 98/2000/NT/Me/XP.
    ALGOR makes computer software and provides services for mechanical and civil engineers. The company serves over 20,000 engineers in over 60 countries in organizations such as DuPont, General Motors, Goodyear, Hewlett-Packard, NASA, Naval Surface Warfare Center and Yale University. Partnerships with other leading mechanical engineering software companies offer data interchange with products from ANSYS, Inc. ; Autodesk, Inc. ; CADKEY Corporation; MSC.Software Corporation ; Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC); Robert McNeel & Associates; Structural Dynamics Research Corporation; Solid Edge, EDS-PLM Solutions ; SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company; and others. Educational support and customer service include the use of Internet audio/video technology for distance learning and free, live software demonstrations.
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