Invented by Otto Bayer in 1937, Polyurethane (PUR) foam is an extremely common material, especially in our cars (bumpers, dashboards, seats, etc.) and in our homes (as insulating material for walls, pipes and refrigerators). PUR is produced by mixing alcohol and isocyanates. The resulting reaction generates gas bubbles which become trapped in the curing compound.

Pre-formed foam plastics are produced by casting processes, where the reactants are mixed just before they enter the mould. When foaming large structures, the curing process may start while the reactants are still being fed into the form, which can result in poor product quality with undesirable voids. To ensure successful filling, both the filling and foaming processes must therefore be optimized together.

This seminar will touch on various topics within this broad segment, showing how CFD modeling with Fluent can assist manufacturers in improving emissions performance. Topics covered will include exhaust after treatment and evaporative emissions control, including a description of the modeling concept as well as numerous examples.

Researchers, engineers and engineering managers involved in emissions control, engineers new to CFD, and existing FLUENT users interested in expanding their knowledge of FLUENT 6.1 would benefit from this valuable seminar.

For more information and to register for this Lunch ’n Learn, visit the seminar website.

PathScale C, C++ and Fortran 90/95 compilers leverage the AMD Opteron processor's high-performance 64-bit functionality and industry-leading price/performance. Results on real application code and industry standard benchmarks show that the PathScale Compiler Suite offers the highest performance 64-bit compilers for AMD Opteron processor-based Linux servers by a margin of up to 40 percent.

With more than 30 years of MCAE experience, Dr. Nagy has served in executive capacities for several industry leaders including as CEO at Engineous Software, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales at MSC.Software, VP of Marketing at Fluent, and software development, strategic product planning, sales and support at SDRC.

Wolfram Research continues to provide advanced technical computing options for the latest and most-advanced microprocessor systems with the release of Mathematica 5 and gridMathematica for Linux on AMD64. As a reflection of Wolfram Research's rigorous software engineering standards, Mathematica 5 is among the first technical computing platforms specifically optimized for the AMD64 architecture--and it delivers impressive performance. The optimized Mathematica port outperforms a regular Linux version of Mathematica on AMD64 systems by up to 50 percent in typical scientific and technical calculations.

"Mathematica 5 for AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors helps ensure that applications take full advantage of the AMD64 architecture performance benefits," said Ed Gasiorowski, director of Developer Relations, AMD's Computation Products Group. "Especially when dealing with large data sets, greater than the 4-GB limit addressed by 32-bit processors, Mathematica 5 will help deliver exceptional application performance."

Penguin Computing today launched significant new 64-bit software and hardware platforms at LinuxWorld Expo (Booth #865). These new 64-bit platforms dramatically enhance the processing power available to enterprise customers requiring highly robust and scalable cluster and server platforms based on Linux.

• Scyld, a subsidiary of Penguin Computing, announced the first 64-bit implementation of the Scyld Beowulf cluster operating system. 64-bit versions of Scyld Beowulf will be available for the AMD Opteron and Intel Itanium 2 platforms.
• Penguin Computing announced that it will begin shipping Intel Itanium 2-based systems for the cluster and high-performance server market in Q2 2004.
• Penguin Computing announced that it is now shipping 5 AMD Opteron-based servers for the cluster and high-performance server market, and one Opteron-based workstation.

Scyld Beowulf combined with either Itanium or Opteron systems from Penguin Computing will provide cluster customers with the advanced processing power and memory addressing advantages of 64-bit hardware platforms.

All of the announced products are being demonstrated at LinuxWorld Expo. For detailed product information please see the individual product press releases also issued today.

"These new 64-bit product announcements from Scyld and Penguin Computing demonstrate our commitment to bring innovative high-performance computing solutions to our enterprise customers," said Enrico Pesatori, president and CEO of Penguin Computing. "These new platforms continue Penguin Computing’s strong leadership position in scalable Linux-based enterprise computing platforms."