The High Performance Computing Division of MSC.Software

1. The High Performance Computing Division of MSC.Software Dr. Stefan Mayer Business Manager HPC Solutions Center Europe

2. Update MSC.Software • MSC has been recognized as „Nastran company“ for decades • Built extensive service offerings during the past years • Engineering Services • Process Design and Automation • Simulation Data Management • Trainings • IT Services • 1999 new engineering.e-com division:www.engineering-e.com

3. Update MSC.Software • 2000 new MSC.Linux division • 2001 acquisition of AES, leading provider of systems, software and services in the area of PLM in North America • MSC.Software today offers all components of „simulation solutions“ – software, systems and services • MSC.Linux Division extended to High Performance Computing Division • Offer Unix know-how to customers as well • Simulation offerings extended to life sciences

4. Update MSC.Software • HPC Division headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif.; HPC Solutions Center in Munich

5. Systems Software Services General Purpose Simulation Simulation Data Management Design & Manufacturing CATIA Product Data Mgmt. ENOVIA & SmartTeam Process & IT Consulting & Services Education & Training Services Enterprise Computing Infrastructure (Storage, Network) Integrations Services Product Support & Services Engineering & Design Services High Performance Computing (Linux/Unix) Work Group Computing (Unix, Linux, NT) MSC.Software‘s IT Offerings

6. MSC.Software‘s HPC Strategy • Linux (32 and 64 bit) and Unix (incl. SMP servers) • Clusters and single machines • Complete solution – hardware, operating system, middleware, application, IT services from a single provider – MSC.Software • Hardware partners • Leverage MSC.Software‘s reputation in Linux and Unix solutions • MSC.Linux is preferred Linux for technical HPC of several hardware and software partners

7. MSC.Linux • Why MSC.Software and Linux? • Fill gap “Technical High Performance Computing Using Linux” • MSC.Software has detailed know-how in all components, which are required for a complete solution • Hardware • Operating System • Middleware • Applications • IT Services (incl. support and training) • Reliable partner since 1963, no start-up • Close cooperation with Intel, all major hardware vendors and many software partners for many years MSC provides integrated, customized solutions for technical High Performance Computing using Linux

8. MSC.Linux Operating System • Goal: best suited out-of-the-box distribution for technical High Performance Computing for Intel architectures • Supports Files > 2GB, browser based installation and administration, 2.34 GB memory for MSC.Nastran using Linux (<900 MB for all other distributions), etc. • LSB compatible • Development strongly driven by requirements from projects for customers • Current release is MSC.Linux 2001 August (2.4 Kernel, FireGL2, NFS V3, XFS, RAID-1 with XFS, etc.), IA-64 in April • MSC.Linux is particularly well suited for Linux clusters • MSC.Linux mainly intended for configuration of turnkey hardware/software solutions

9. IPF (IA-64) Activities • All MSC.Software applications will be ported to IPF (IA-64) • Results for MSC.Nastran 2001 standard benchmark XL0TDF1 • MSC.Linux will support IA-64 starting from April • Further boost expected with McKinley

10. High-end Unix/Linux SMP • Differentiators of high-end UNIX/Linux SMP systems, incl. IA-64, compared to IA-32 Linux • >>2GB per analysis job • >>1 processors in one system

11. Typical HPC Architecture Compute Nodes Application 3 Compute Nodes Application 1 LAN Interconnection Network MSC.Linux / Unix Head Node and/or Management Node(s) Compute Nodes Application 2 Compute Nodes Application 4

12. IT Services • System design • Implementation • Hardware set-up, for example rack integration • Installation, configuration, test of hardware, operating system, middleware, application software (incl. reselling of HW vendor services) • Installation, configuration and test of image server • Installation, configuration and test of monitoring and alerting (clusters) • Installation, configuration and test of queuing system

13. IT Services • MSC.Batch Submit (for Linux clusters): Web portal to submit and monitor jobs • Platform independent • Based on LAMP architecture (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) • Can be extended and customized according to requirements of customers

14. IT Services • Web tools to manage LSF • Computation services: benchmarks, production runs of customer jobs • (On-site) Training • High Performance Computing (HPC) consulting • MSC.Linux support • Dedicated support e-mail address, for example product.support.customer@mscsoftware.com • Remote access (support, operation) • Hardware maintenance contracts

15. HPC Solutions • Continued optimization of the interoperation of hardware-operating system-application yields excellent results • Example: MSC.Nastran running under Linux

16. HPC Solutions • MSC HPC solutions not „only“ for MSC.Nastran, not „only“ for Linux • LS-DYNA: see www.feainformation.com • MSC.Marc • Star-CD

17. 2001 Successes • Approx. 30 new customers • Customers turn to MSC.Software because of our application, HPC and OS know-how (Linux and Unix) • Focus on Linux (clusters) and mixed Unix/Linux environments • Reference customers available, for example European car manufacturer and research institute