Nor-Tech HPC Clusters can be customized for optimal performance of specific applications.

Analysis & Visualization

Altair Engineering
Altair Engineering, Inc. strengthens client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. With a 20-year-plus track record for product design, advanced engineering software and grid computing technologies, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries.

Bunkspeed
Bunkspeed is a leading global provider of visualization software and services for design, engineering, and marketing. Bunkspeed's advanced visualization technologies leverage digital engineering assets and contribute to enlightened decision-making in the digital design process. Bunkspeed provides its clients with a cost-effective way to deliver sales and marketing imagery, and realize significantly reduced product development costs.

Corporate Modelling
Corporate Modelling provides the latest in business service and business process management, modelling and solution creation by using advanced business architectural techniques, knowledge and process engineering in a practical and methodical manner. Corporate Modelling provides repositories to manage, search and deploy across multiple languages, cultures and organisational structures that make up your corporation.

Platform Computing
Platform Computing is a global leader for grid computing software solutions. The company helps enterprises realize the full potential of their IT infrastructure through accelerating applications, reducing operational and capital costs, and improving availability for mission-critical resources. Platform is leveraging its position in high-performance computing to deliver a new class of enterprise IT resource orchestration across the data center.

PolySystems Inc.
PolySystems Inc. provides comprehensive valuation, projection, and financial reporting software solutions to the life, health and annuity insurance industry in the United States and abroad.

SAS
SAS is a leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. With innovative business applications supported by an enterprise intelligence platform, SAS helps customers at 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

The MathWorks
The MathWorks, Inc. is a leading developer of technical computing software for engineers and scientists in industry, government, and education. With an extensive product set, The MathWorks provides software and services to solve challenging problems and accelerate innovation in automotive, aerospace, communications, financial services, biotechnology, and other industries.

Milliman
Milliman actuaries and consultants combine a comprehensive understanding of business management issues, and offer the latest thinking in hedging, product pricing and projection, and reserving for the insurance and financial industry. Our software tools integrate with Microsoft's HPC solution to provide the HPC capability required to run thousands of scenarios to assess risk and meet the emerging regulatory requirements for reserves and capital determination.

Towers Perrin
Towers Perrin is a professional services firm that provides innovative solutions in risk and capital management, reinsurance intermediary services and actuarial consulting. These include enterprise risk management, financial reporting and management, mergers and acquisitions, pension and retirement risks, product and market strategies, and reinsurance intermediary and analytical services

UnRisk
UnRisk Consortium serves the advanced quantitative finance community and makes the UnRisk PRICING ENGINE for derivatives analytics and UnRisk FACTORY for real-time risk analytics of portfolios with the most sophisticated deal types. The FACTORY combines a grid-enabled version of the UnRisk PRICING ENGINE with MS SQL Server 2005 and the Web. The ultra-fast grid engine for pricing and calibration runs on Microsoft's HPC solution.

Visual Numerics
Visual Numerics develops leading data analysis and visualization solutions for technical, business and scientific communities worldwide. Using the accurate and reliable analytics of the IMSL Numerical Libraries, the robust programming language and visualization techniques of PV-WAVE and an expert consulting team, Visual Numerics provides world-class analysis and visualization solutions.

Wolfram Research
Wolfram Research, Inc. is one of the world's leading developers of technical computing software, offering organization-wide computing solutions. Wolfram Research offers gridMathematica for HPC, which combines the power of a leading technical computing environment with modern computing clusters and grids to solve the most demanding problems in mathematics, science, engineering, and finance.

Bioinformatics

The BioTeam
The BioTeam is a consulting collective dedicated to delivering vendor-agnostic informatics solutions to the life science industry. The BioTeam provides complete beginning-to-end life science informatics and bio-IT solutions and has proven success at bridging the science-IT gap.

Geoscience

Oil & Gas

Computer Modeling Group
Computer Modelling Group, LTD., (CMG) is a leading developer of market-leading reservoir simulation technologies for the oil and gas industry. CMG provides reservoir simulation software for conventional oil and gas extraction, complex phase behavior, compositional and thermal applications, including the modelling of chemical reactions and rigorous, coupled geo-mechanics.

Roxar
Roxar is one of the leading international providers of products and services for the oil and gas industry. Roxar software provides robust solutions for both simple and complex reservoir management problems, enabling engineers to optimize reservoir performance and increase the accuracy of their production forecasting. Roxar's international customer base includes multinationals, major independents, and the majority of national oil companies.

Schlumberger
Schlumberger is a leading oilfield services company supplying technology, project management, and information solutions that help optimize performance for customers working in the oil and gas industry. Schlumberger supplies a wide range of products and services from formation evaluation, directional drilling, well cementing, stimulation, completions and productivity consulting to software and information management and IT infrastructure services that support core industry operational processes.

SPT Group
SPT Group, (formerly Scandpower Petroleum Technology) provides market-leading software products and consulting services for project teams specializing in multiphase flow, drilling and simulated reservoir engineering for the oil and gas industry. SPT Group understands that the safety and profitability of a field is dependent on the ability to create accurate fluid flow models and optimize reservoir performance.

Simulation & Development

ANSYS
ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers and designers across a broad spectrum of industries. ANSYS focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, or on HPC clusters, within a common platform for fast, efficient, and cost-conscious product development.

CD-adapco
CD-adapco is the leading global provider of full-spectrum engineering simulation (CAE) solutions for fluid flow, heat transfer, and stress, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, CAD-embedded CFD options, and CAE consulting services and training.

Dassault Systemes
Dassault Systemes is the world leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions powered by three-dimensional (3D) representation, serving businesses of all sizes in all industries. PLM has revolutionized the way companies design and develop their industrial products by offering a 3D vision of the entire product lifecycle, from initial concept through to maintenance.

See also: Geowall

Digipede Technologies
Digipede Technologies is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner providing the first commercial distributed computing software based entirely on Microsoft .NET. The Digipede Network delivers improvements in application performance by distributing the execution of Windows applications across a network of desktops, servers, and/or cluster nodes. The Digipede Network simplifies the process of developing and executing distributed .NET or COM applications.

ESI Group
ESI Group has developed an extensive suite of coherent, industry-oriented applications to realistically simulate a product's behavior during testing, fine-tune manufacturing processes, and evaluate the environment's impact on product performance. ESI Group's products provide a unique and open virtual engineering solution known as the Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous and collaborative manner.

Fluent
Fluent is a leading global provider of commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services used to predict fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reaction, and related phenomena. Fluent software and services are used by engineers worldwide for product development, design optimization, troubleshooting, scale-up, and retrofitting. Fluent software is available on Windows-based systems and provides robust, scaleable parallel processing.

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LSTC
Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC) develops LS-DYNA and supporting product. LS-DYNA development is focused on scalable, multi-physics, state-of-the-art, code methodology for performing complex transient simulations such as automotive crashworthiness, and occupant safety with airbag deployment. LS-DYNA is optimized for all high-performance computing platforms, including low-cost clusters running Microsoft systems.

Intelligent Light
Intelligent Light is a world leader in the development and delivery of software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) users. We help the world's best engineering and research organizations maximize the productivity and impact of their CFD capabilities. FieldView, our core product, is widely used in industry and research, and delivers advanced capabilities for mining simulation data and exploring the fluid flow fields using world-class visualization technology.

MSC.Software
MSC.Software Corporation is a leading provider of virtual product development tools, including simulation software and professional services, that help companies solve problems associated with designing and testing manufactured products. Its core simulation software is used by customers to analyze extremely complex engineering problems that require an extraordinary amount of parallel processing.

Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. is a world leader in delivering semiconductor design software, intellectual property (IP), design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions and professional services that companies use to design systems-on-chips (SoCs) and electronic systems. The company's products enable semiconductor, manufacturing, computer, communications, consumer electronics and other companies that develop electronic products to improve performance, increase productivity and achieve predictable success from systems to silicon.

Resource Management

Adaptive Computing
Adaptive Computing, Inc. is a leading provider of workload and resource management software and services for cluster, grid and utility-based computing environments. With over a decade of industry experience, Adaptive Computing delivers software products and services that enable organizations to understand, control, and fully optimize their compute resources and related processes.

Electric Cloud
Electric Cloud is a leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions. Electric Cloud solutions help to automate, accelerate and analyze software build/test/deploy processes to optimize both physical and virtual IT environments. Leading companies across a variety of industries, including semiconductors, enterprise IT, ISVs, mobile devices, and transactional Web sites rely on Electric Cloud's SPM solutions to help transform software production from a liability to a competitive advantage.

Macrovision
Macrovision Corporation is a market leader in software value management (SVM) technologies. Macrovision markets the FLEXnet universal licensing platform and the InstallShield suite of software installation, repackaging, and update solutions, which are deployed on more than 500 million desktops worldwide.

Visual Effects

DUX Soft Company Profile
DUX Soft, is one of the leading providers of comprehensive solutions for Animation, Visual Effects and Gaming industry. Its packaged value-added end-to-end services include Studio & Data Center Design, Storage & Network Design and IT Infrastructure & Load Planning. The focus is on helping clients choose the right mix of infrastructure, architected in ways to create an optimal HPC enabled environment - along with custom scripting, asset optimization and infrastructure management services (IMS) - that allow the clients to focus on their core competencies.

Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation.