APEX, N.C., December 13, 2006 – CEI, a leader in simulation software for engineering and science, has won a reader’s choice award from HPCwire for best price/performance visualization product or technology.

CEI won the award for EnSight Lite, software introduced in May that delivers essential features of the company’s EnSight extreme visualization software at half the price.  EnSight Lite is aimed at small- and medium-sized companies, large companies looking to maximize their visualization investment across the enterprise, and academic institutions.

HPCwire is the most-recognized and accessed news and information web site for professionals who use high-productivity computing (HPC) products and technologies.  The annual awards represent the collective opinion of the HPC community, including engineers, scientists and researchers worldwide.

“The selection of EnSight Lite shows that CEI is in tune with the seismic shifts taking place in the HPC community,” says Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire.  “Vendors such as CEI are on the leading edge of making HPC technologies accessible to organizations of all sizes.”

 Kent Misegades, CEI and Tom Tabor, HPCWire 

“This award recognizes our efforts to make high-end visualization commonplace, transparent and pervasive,” says Kent Misegades, CEI’s president.  “We are automating the process and pricing products so that almost any engineer, scientist or researcher can turn their computational research into beautiful and revealing 3D animations with little effort and few specialized skills.”

About CEI
CEI (www.ensight.com) offers a suite of tools for engineering and scientific simulation, including meshing, plotting, animation and data visualization.  The company’s software can be run on every type of computer, from laptops to clusters to supercomputers running Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac OS X operating systems.  CEI software interfaces seamlessly with all popular CAE software and most scientific research codes, and can drive the most advanced VR displays.  CEI has corporate headquarters in Apex, N.C., and authorized distributors around the world.

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