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NASA Ames purchases EnSight Gold licenses to enhance visualization quality, collaboration |
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APEX, N.C., August 1, 2006 – NASA Ames Research Center has
purchased multiple licenses of CEI’s EnSight Gold software to provide
consistent visualization quality for different types of analyses and to
support collaboration among different NASA divisions, the Department of
Defense (DoD), and the Department of Energy (DoE).
Several factors played a part in the decision to purchase EnSight Gold:
- It provides visual analyses of many types of data in many different formats.
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It can operate in client-only or client-server mode.
- It supports a mixed computing environment such as the NASA Ames
Columbia supercomputer cluster and Apple Macintosh desktop clients.
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It supports remote collaboration.
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It enables easy output to rich media, including file formats that
can be run in QuickTime and edited in Final Cut Pro on the Mac.
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It allows NASA Ames to leverage the large EnSight user base already established within NASA, DoD and DoE.
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It provides an open, high-performance file format for all types of CFD and structural analysis.
Parallel-server and client-server functionality within EnSight Gold is
also important to NASA Ames. Parallel-server functionality provides
interactive access to multiple CPUs that speed visualization for
compute-intensive problems or problems involving a large number of
datasets. Client-server mode allows NASA Ames to take advantage of
large compute platforms to provide fast display for remote users doing
visualization on a Mac or Linux system.
The first EnSight Gold project for NASA Ames is visualizing
time-dependent analyses of debris trajectory as part of the Return to
Flight initiative. In the near future, NASA Ames plans to use EnSight
Gold in development of the Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV), designed to
deliver the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) to low-Earth orbit early
next decade, and the shuttle-derived heavy-lift launcher.
About CEI
CEI (www.ensight.com) offers the industry’s most complete 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 the most advanced VR
displays, and on all major computing platforms. CEI’s EnSight software
interfaces seamlessly to all popular CAE software and most scientific
research codes. CEI has corporate headquarters in Apex, N.C., and
authorized distributors around the world.
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