Joined efforts between the two companies are underway to incorporate Windows 7 light-up features in STAR-CCM+. For compute-intensive simulations performed over a cluster of Windows computers using Windows HPC Server 2008, STAR-CCM+ will be tightly linked to the job scheduling features, compute node management features, and image deployment capabilities.

“Engineering customers want desktop applications to work seamlessly with their simulation models so we’re very excited about the STAR-CCM+ announcement around Windows 7 and Office 2010,” said Greg Kirchoff, Director of Vertical Global ISVs at Microsoft.

STAR-CCM+ allows users to distribute post-processed simulation results as “scene files” containing a three-dimensional representation of the stored CAE plot. When viewed using STAR-View+, scene files allow the viewer to zoom, pan and rotate the stored model and post-processing data as well as show and hide features within the scene.