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.