Engineering Solutions International Limited to install NEC SX-5supercomputerDuesseldorf 15 March 2001 NEC has signed a multi year contract of NEC's supply of its supercomputer system including 16 Gflop/s NEC's SX-4/8A and SX Series successor systems to Engineering Solutions International Limited (ESIL).
Since its foundation, ESIL has mainly provided computational services
specialising in the area of Simulation Engineering. The company is staffed with
trained engineers - primarily at Masters and PhD level - and uses advanced
computational techniques to simulate and model products and processes in
development and engineering. The resources ESIL provide have been effective in
providing competitive advantage during the engineering and development cycle by
reducing prototyping and lead-times. The company has also developed a number of
patented products in coatings and abradable wear for the gas turbine industry.
The company also has a number of products for deposition technologies in the
area of Chemical Vapour Deposition.
ESIL's customers include Rolls Royce Aero engines and the European Space
Agency and this demonstrates the success of the company's unique offering of
Simulation Engineering. NEC appreciates the emerging market for services and
products in the area of Simulation Engineering and believes adoption of
Simulation Engineering alongside ESIL's product/service offering is a unique
combination to fully service this growing and potentially lucrative market. NEC
recognise that Simulation Engineering is the analysis and development tool of
the future since it is much too expensive for companies to continue to build
and test their development prototypes. Both companies believe that their
respective skills and product sets complement each other and ideally place both
companies for the development of this exciting and growing market place.
NEC considers this order results from the benefits of shared memory vector
machines, which provide for easy parallelisation and optimisation of scientific
and engineering programs. Setting this order as a milestone, NEC continues
development of other HPC products which will enhance the firm relationship with
ESIL.
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