CEI's Visualization Software Line Adds Support for Mac OS X Tiger

APEX, N.C.--May 2, 2005--CEI has added support for the Apple Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" across its entire visualization software line - EnSight, EnSight Gold, EnLiten, EnVideo and EnVe.

"This announcement extends our commitment to the Mac OS X platform, which we've supported for more than a year," says Darin McKinnis, CEI's vice president of marketing and sales. "The new core technologies and tools in Tiger should continue to increase the Mac's appeal to EnSight users performing high-end engineering and scientific visualization for structural and fluids analysis."

"Tiger's leadership in 64-bit computing enables developers to build and run a new generation of applications," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're excited that EnSight users will be able to take advantage of Tiger's support of native 64-bit applications to visualize complex datasets."

Tiger's support for 64-bit computing will enable EnSight users to take full advantage of the power of Apple's G5-based Xserve clusters. Users can now load world-class-sized datasets and visualize them interactively in EnSight Gold's Server-of-Servers (SOS) running on a G5 Xserve cluster.

CEI's flexible architecture supports mixing of computer platforms within a single visualization session, within a workgroup, or even across an entire corporate network. EnSight users running Tiger can connect to other Macs or non-Mac versions of EnSight for remote client-server visualization, collaborative visualization, cluster-based visualization, and multi-tiled displays for large visualization systems.

CEI's licensing model is platform-independent. Tiger users within existing CEI customer sites can simply install the applications and contact the network administrator to obtain the license key to use the software.

EnSight and EnSight Gold are software for visualizing, analyzing and communicating computational results for automotive, aerospace, chemical and scientific visualization problems. EnLiten, EnVideo and EnVe are free software packages that provide an easy way to use EnSight animations for collaboration and communication.

About CEI

CEI offers a complete suite of tools for engineering and scientific visualization, from meshing to plotting to animations that can be run on the most advanced VR displays. The company has corporate headquarters in Apex, N.C., and authorized distributors around the world. In addition to software products, CEI provides consulting services to engineers and scientists from organizations that need to visualize computational results for research, product design or product refinement.