Welcome to the CEI Mac page, specifically designed for you, the Mac user.  In answer to the question you are asking yourself, YES, our products run on Macintosh!

Take a look around this page for information on customized installation, platform performance, application stories about clients working with our products on the Mac, etc.  If there is something you would like to see included on this page, please let This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it know.

CEI Products that are Mac-worthy

EnSight (includes also Lite, Gold and DR) - extreme post-processor

EnLiten - communicate with 3D viewing and animation

EnVideo - movie player

EnVe - video editing

Reveal - our newest 3D animation viewer
 

EnSight Installation 

We offer a Mac package-style installer for the EnSight 8.2 Suite, click here for the download information. Multiple platform installations should use the network installer, DVD iso image, or tgz file.

CAE Solvers Available on the Mac
LS-Dyna - crashworthiness 

AVUS – CFD

CATS – FEA

Crunch - CFD    See the story featuring COLSA Corporation's 1,562 dual Xserve G5 cluster.  

CFD++ - CFD

EVO for QuickTime

EVO for QuickTime allows you to import and export EVO files with any Macintosh application supporting the QuickTime framework, including Final Cut Pro/Express, iMovie, QuickTime Player/Pro, Finder, Keynote, and more. In addition, EVO for QuickTime supports stereo movie editing and lossless video compression, useful as a video archiving format.  Click to download EVO for Quicktime.

G5 vs Intel

MacBook Pro EnSight Performance Numbers, click here to read more.

Information on platform performance for platforms besides the Mac.

Software Update

On November 1, 2006, Apple released a software update to its X11 server that provides support for GLX stereo visuals and offscreen rendering to Pbuffers and Pixmaps.  With GLX stereo support and the right hardware, EnSight can display your data with three dimensional realism.  Pbuffers and Pixmaps enable off-screen rendering which protects images and animations you create from overlapping dialogs and other artifacts that can come from on-screen rendering.  With off-screen rendering, you also get hardware accelerated rendering when running in batch mode.  Apple is delivering the X11 update (version 1.1.2) through the usual SoftwareUpdate channel, so chances are, if you have X11 installed, you already have the update. 

Caveman's Calculator - Caveman’s Calculator brings the some of the most common slide rule functions to your desktop. Seven functional scales (C, D, A, B, CI, K, and L) with Quartz-precision placement of tick marks are packaged together in a sleek design. This application is free but is strictly for personal/educational use. Do not use it for commercial purposes. As they say on mac.softpedia.com "Cavemen do not like money".

CEI is listed on Mac's Software Resources for Cluster Computing, specifically under Commercial Engineering Analysis Applications for Cluster Computing, click here to read more.

Application Stories

Perfecting a Life-Saving Blood Pump, RWTH Aachen University
Computational Analysis of Technical Systems (CATS) at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, use finite element analysis (FEA) techniques using Apple Xserve clusters and Mac desktops using EnSight post-processing software to analyze the results. For the full story, click here. 

Press 

February 2008 - Check back here soon for news about Leopard support in EnSight 8.2. 

August 2006 - NASA Ames purchases EnSight Gold licenses to enhance visualization quality, collaboration.  One of the main reasons NASA Ames purchased EnSight was because it supports a mixed computing environment such as the NASA Ames Columbia supercomputer cluster and Apple Macintosh desktop clients.  For the full story, click here. 

May 2004 - New meshing and visualization support affirms Mac as high-end technical platform.  Click here for full story.

"Remote environments like compute clusters will certainly continue to be based in large part on Linux, and here the multi-platform EnSight support is a big plus," says Marek Behr, deputy head of Chair forComputational Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich, who does his computation-intensive tasks on remote clusters. "I can run EnSight on a Linux cluster at another site, and look at the results on my Mac." 

April 2004 - CEI adds Macintosh OS X support to its extreme meshing software.  For more information click here.

"When we saw the tremendous response we received from introducing our EnSight, EnLiten and EnVideo visualization tools for the Mac platform, we knew that we had to have Harpoon running on the Mac as well," says Darin McKinnis, CEI's director of sales. "The Mac is great for Harpoon since meshes are often quite large and require good CPU and graphics performance."

March 2004 - CEI adds Macintosh OS X support to its visualization software products, click here for the full story.

"EnSight support further legitimizes OS X as the platform of choice for scientific and technical computing," says Matthew Grismer, an aerospace engineer. "I can now do all of my computational fluid dynamics research - from grid generation, to compiling and running code, to post-processing with EnSight - on one platform, and continue to use that same platform for regular office automation."