Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, has offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia and is a leading global product design consulting and technology company. The Enterprise Computing line of business focuses on services and software that help companies with high-performance computing requirements. PBS Pro, is a workload balancing tool that optimizes the utilization of computing environments by intelligently aggregating and scheduling computational resources through a robust, scalable, open architecture software solutions. www.altair.com

HP^®

SIMtone's ASPEED team is working closely with HP and specifically its HPC focus in support of the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio, a comprehensive, modular package of tested and pre-configured hardware, software and services for scalable computation, data management and visualization. ASPEED software is an HPC application parallelization and distribution enabler which focuses on the rapid enablement and ongoing return of the HP Unified Cluster platforms and components. See HP Software Development.

IBM delivers innovative powerful open solutions to help you affordably address your demands for intense computation, visualization, or manipulation and management of massive amounts of data. Blue Gene is an IBM Research project dedicated to exploring the frontiers in supercomputing: in computer architecture, in the software required to program and control massively parallel systems, and in the use of computation to advance our understanding of important biological processes such as protein folding.

www.ibmdeepcomputing.com

Intel^®

Intel is working closely with SIMtone's ASPEED team to assist its clients with computationally intensive applications to more rapidly realize the performance benefits of new Intel Architecture platforms and ensure seamless scalability by enabling:

- single-thread applications to exploit dual-core,

  quad-core and multiprocessor platforms

- single and multi-thread applications to exploit

   Intel-based clusters and grid platforms

- massively parallel applications to leverage new

  Intel Xeon platforms.

Intel and SIMtone are working closely on a broad range of joint sales, marketing and technology efforts in the financial, insurance, life sciences, energy, manufacturing and government sectors in North America, Europe and PACRIM to promote ASPEED solutions to end-users and third-party software providers.

www.intel.com

Microsoft is working closely with ASPEED to assist their clients to more rapidly exploit enable their EXCEL-based and server bound applications to exploit new multi-core hardware and Microsoft high performance parallel computing solutions such as  Windows High Performance  Server 2008.

Visual Numerics has provided advanced analytics and expert consulting services to technical, business and scientific communities worldwide for over three decades. Its gold-standard numerical analysis software, the IMSL™ Numerical Libraries, powerful visualization tools and the PV-WAVE^®  family allow business and technical users to gain new insight into their data while maximizing return on application development investment.  SIMtone and Visual Numerics have a strategic alliance to work as business and technology partners. www.vni.com.