The Fluent RSF is specifically designed to handle highly parallel simulations, often characterized by large volumes of sensitive customer data, over the Internet. It is optimized for large-scale simulations and/or the concurrent execution of many simulations, such as those found in sensitivity analysis or optimization. The facility uses state-of-the-art security and systems infrastructure technology from providers including Cisco, Sun, SGI, and Hewlett Packard. This service is ideal for Fluent CFD users who require occasional "surge" capacity for time-critical simulations, or periodic simulations of large models.

As the name implies, STAR-Works combines the best in class features of STAR-CD and SolidWorks. It aims to meet the demand of engineers for a single CAD and CFD solution to speed product development, cut costs and improve product quality.

CD Adapco has made some advances since I last saw StarCD, but in all honesty, it still has a long way to go before it will see the majority of SolidWorks users becoming interested. But perhaps this is isn't there real aim. At present, Star-Works is a fantastic way for an analyst to take SolidWorks data, and prepare it for use within StarCD.

Does anyone have any suggestions to help get him started?

Dr. Michael Raw, Vice President of Product Development for CFX, has agreed to answer 10 of the best questions submitted to this thread. Valid questions range from numerical modeling to commerical software development and planning.

Dr. Raw is one of the original authors of the CFX series of CFD solvers and has been working on commercial CFD for 15+ years. He has worked extensively in both structured and unstructured flow solver development.

So post your questions and we'll send off the best ones for Dr. Raw's reply which will be posted here when complete.

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