"CFX is committed to providing the flexible interfaces to geometry creation tools that will increase productivity and decrease the design cycle to make our customers more successful. The ability to directly import CAD geometry from a powerful CAD package such as Pro/ENGINEER provides our customers with tremendous time and cost savings compared to other less direct import methods. Together with PTC, we are helping customers develop superior products," commented Dr. Brad Hutchinson, Vice President of CFX Mechanical Engineering.

Pro/DESKTOP Express is the powerful new parametric solid modeling software that perfectly meets the needs of engineers, designers, students and even home engineers who support, work or collaborate within PTC's Pro/ENGINEER® product development environment. Pro/DESKTOP Express is easy to use, easy to learn and free, and it supports native file geometry transfer and associativity with Pro/ENGINEER.

Pro/DESKTOP Express is downloadable for free here or from Pro/COLLABORATE. Alternatively, a CD may be obtained for $15 postage and handling from PTC's e-store.

The article looks at the registers, instruction set, branch prediction, etc. and compares the Intel and AMD offerings with existing chips (Alpha, SPARC, MIPS and POWER).

A previous story on CFD Review provided another look at the migration to 64-bit computing.

Attendance at Fluent's annual Users' Group Meetings gives our users a chance to interact with the top echelon of CFD users in the world. Come to this year's annual UGM and learn how others in industry are applying CFD, meet with our technical staff, and provide your input to the future development of the software you are using.

This year's meeting will include pre-meeting training seminars, as well as product reports, a comprehensive lecture series on specific applications, and the ever-popular user presentations. The CFD pavilion returns, featuring exhibits by our hardware and software partners, posters by Fluent engineers, and product information. Also, an exciting new session will highlight our new web-based solutions program.

Visit http://www.fluent.com to register and/or learn more about this year's meeting.

The student edition is a response to several requests for an educational version of the WingAnalysis Plus Package. Like the Lite Version of VisualFoil ($69.00), the Student Version of WingAnalysis Plus is offered at a substantial discount over the Full Version with an introductory price of $95.00 US. This price will be available until March 15, 2002. After this date, the price will be increased to $129.00 US.

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