Founded in 1970, ANSYS, Inc. develops and globally markets engineering simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers and designers across a broad spectrum of industries. The company 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, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. With more than 25 strategic sales locations throughout the world, ANSYS, Inc. is headquartered in the United States in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, employs approximately 600 people, and distributes its products through a network of channel partners in 40 countries.

Fluent is a leading global provider of commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services, which are 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 from both Intel and AMD and provides robust and scaleable parallel processing.

Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC) develops LS-DYNA and two supporting products, LS-OPT and LS-PrePost. 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 Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP operating systems.

The MathWorks, Inc. is a leading global developer of technical computing software for engineers and scientists in industry, government, and education. With an extensive product set based on MATLAB and Simulink, The MathWorks provides software and services to solve challenging problems and accelerate innovation in automotive, aerospace, communications, financial services, biotechnology, electronics, instrumentation, process, and other industries. Using The MathWorks distributed computing tools, engineers and scientists can prototype and develop distributed and parallel applications in MATLAB. Founded in 1984 with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, The Mathworks employs more than 1,000 people worldwide.

Mellanox offers InfiniBand industry-standard, low cost Host Channel adapter silicon devices and add-in cards and Switch silicon for high-performance computing clustered solutions. With 20Gb and 60Gb/sec capabilities today and a roadmap to 120GB/sec, Mellanox provides the fabric solution for server and storage clusters forming the backbone of supercomputers that deliver world-class performance and scalability.

Myricom, the leading supplier of high-performance cluster interconnect, has introduced Myri-10G products, a convergence of 10-Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Myrinet. Myri-10G NICs include efficient offload, delivering 2-microsecond MPI latency in Myrinet mode and 9.6 Gbits/s TCP/IP in Ethernet mode. High-port-count Myri-10G switches provide unlimited scalability.

QLogic simplifies the process of networking storage. With the vision of a storage area network in every business, QLogic controller chips, host bus adapters, switches, and software are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. QLogic provides solutions based on storage network technologies including SCSI, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel.

Voltaire is the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center. Voltaire's integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the high performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization, and scalability across compute clusters, storage, and IP networks. Voltaire solutions are available from major systems vendors and integrators.