Sponsor of the 2013 Edition

ESTECO is a pioneer in numerical optimization solutions, specialized in the research and development of engineering software for all stages of the simulation-driven design process.
Perfecting engineering and reducing complexity in the design process is our vision.
Our aim is to decrease the tedium in the engineering analysis and increase creativity by developing and maintaining cutting-edge software that allows for integration, optimization and advanced data analysis. ESTECO's technology, used worldwide, inspires decision making, increases efficiency in design simulation tools, and accelerates product innovation.

AVL is the world's largest privately owned and independent company for the development of powertrain systems with internal combustion engines as well as instrumentation and test systems. AVL is acting in the following scopes of business: Development of Powertrain Systems: AVL develops and improves all kinds of powertrain systems and is a competent partner to the engine and automotive industry. Simulation: In addition AVL develops and markets the simulation methods which are necessary for the development work. Engine Instrumentation and Test Systems: The products of this business area comprise all the instruments and systems required for engine and vehicle testing.

Mentor Graphics is a leader in electronic design automation software. We enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Our innovative products and solutions help engineers conquer design challenges in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design.

BETA CAE Systems S.A, is an engineering software company committed to the development of best-in-class pre- and post-processing solutions for multidisciplinary CAE applications. The BETA CAE Systems flagship product suite comprised of ANSA pre-processor and μETA post-processor, holds a worldwide leading position in the CAE software field. This product suite sets the standard in CAE pre- and post-processing in many sectors, including automotive, railway, aerospace, motor sports, chemical processes, energy, electronics, heavy machinery, power tools, and biomedical.

With an experience of over ten years in designing and manufacturing high performance systems, E4 Computer Engineering is the first Italian vendor delivering a range of superior workstation, server, storage and solutions for HPC and Industry. Providing leading edge products for research, pharmaceutical, automotive, fluid dynamics and prototyping applications, E4 Computer Engineering focuses on developing the most advanced technologies in order to deliver state of the art solutions.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.

NVIDIA awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. The Company holds more than 1,800 patents worldwide, including ones covering designs and insights that are essential to modern computing.

CST offers accurate, efficient computational solutions for electromagnetic design and analysis. Our user-friendly 3D EM simulation software enables you to choose the most appropriate method for the design and optimization of devices operating in a wide range of frequencies.

We are the most diversified automotive supplier in the world. We design, develop and manufacture automotive systems, assemblies, modules and components, and engineer and assemble complete vehicles, primarily for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of cars and light trucks in our three geographic segments - North America, Europe, and Rest of World (primarily Asia, South America and Africa).
Our capabilities include the design, engineering, testing and manufacture of automotive interior systems; seating systems; closure systems; metal body & chassis systems; mirror systems; exterior systems; roof systems; electronic systems; powertrain systems as well as complete vehicle engineering and assembly.

Torino Piemonte Aerospace offers international buyers a preferential channel to meet and develop business with a selection of about 85 top class enterprises of the aerospace and defense sector based in Piemonte, Italy. The Team's assistance is completely free of charge. It ascertains buyers' needs, upon request it suggests possible suppliers and arranges one-to-one meetings in Torino or on one's premises.
The supply chain, selected according to strict parameters of evaluation, represents all fields of production: aircraft manufacturing, components & mechanics, plants & machineries, systems & subsystems, special metalworking, defense vehicles & systems, components of electrical systems for aircrafts and satellites, tests and control equipment, engineering, prototyping, software creation and consultancy.

CYBERNET SYSTEMS sells top-class CAE software used worldwide for such wide-ranging applications. It also sells IT solutions software used in process learning, software asset administration, and terminal emulators as well as web conferencing services. CYBERNET SYSTEMS also provides user education through various types of seminars including such professional services as technical support, contracted analysis, and consulting, and also develops interfaces, models, and analysis modules.

HSH operates as a manufacturer and distributor of scientific software as part of the CAE (Computer Aided Engineering), CAD (Computer Aided Design) software for scientific and technical engineering (with the brands HSH CAD SYSTEM EASY-and-COSPACK HSH Construction oriented Software Package) with particular emphasis on structural analysis with the software Straus7.

Realize software and services for reactive business intelligence, interactive visualization, Learning and Intelligent Optimization (a combination of modeling, machine learning and optimization).

KEY to METALS contains over 4.5 million property records for steel, aluminum, copper, titanium, and other metals, from more than 57 countries and standards.

MAGMA is a world-wide leading developer and supplier of software for casting process simulation. Today, MAGMASOFT ® is used throughout the metal casting industry, especially for the optimization of cast components in automotive and heavy industry applications Worldwide, MAGMA employs 180 people in development, support, sales & marketing, and administration, of which 90 are in Aachen. 40 software developers, and more foundry engineers than in most foundries, build one of the industry's most powerful "casting competence centers".

The objective of the Consortium is the promotion of training activities at various levels relating to the disciplines that refer, also complementarily and transversally, to CAE (Computer Aided Engineering), virtual prototyping and testing, numerical simulations, iDP (Intelligent Digital Prototyping), and related disciplines which are bound to statistics, data structure, Information Technology and software engineering in general.

IBM Corporate is leader in the innovation, development and production for most advanced I/T technologies. The head quarter is in Armonk, NY, and more than 390thousands employees operate in more than 170 countries. Over than 65% of revenue is by countries outside of US which confirms its pervasive presence around the world. IBM owned by 16 years the leadership in number of patents per year in I/T outperforming all major I/T companies in the world.

Conception, design and development for infrastructures, geotechnical engineering, tunneling, environment and green energy.
For more than 30 years SWS Engineering S.p.A. has been providing design and engineering services to Private Business, Public Bodies and Government Agencies both in Italy and abroad. Founded in 1982, SWS Engineering has developed professional expertise within a diversified group of projects and a range of interrelated services.

Componeering specializes in structural analysis and design of composite structures. Componeering has gained its competence and recognition from the development of ESAComp software as a European Space Agency (ESA) initiated and supported project. Componeering works on three major business areas: Composites analysis and design software ESAComp, Customized CAE solutions for composites and Customized CAE solutions for composites.

The Dynardo GmbH develops software for CAE-based optimization and stochastic analysis as a basis for industrial Robust Design Optimization (RDO) in virtual product development. The company also offers in cooperation with global distributors consulting and calculation services as well as support and training concerning the software optiSLang®. No matter in which industry, due to this combination, a high amount of flexibility referring to special market requirements in the CAE sector is achieved. Companies such as Daimler, Bosch, Siemens, Shell or Nokia value this potential of individ-ual solutions and precise execution of analysis and optimization tasks. Dynardo's team provides experienced services for all phases of virtual prototyping. The expertise in calculation and simulation of engineering tasks ranges over various fields of industries, such as consumer goods industry, mechanical and process engineering, energy industry, civil engineering, geomechanics, automotive industry, aerospace industry, bioengineering and micromechanics.

Techdyn Engineering is an applied research and engineering company - spin-off of the University of Cassino, Italy - highly specialized in advanced design, structural integrity assessment, computational analysis and testing of traditional and engineered materials under extreme operative conditions.

SimNumerica was founded by a dedicated research team, all experts with broad experiences in debugging, electronics, IT and mathematics, of University of Padova. SimNumerica's joint expertise is focused on environments for the virtual prototyping of mechatronics systems based on micro-controllers.

Granta Design is the world leader in materials information technology. Granta solutions improve quality, innovation, and efficiency, while reducing risk and cost in industries including aerospace, energy, automotive, industrial and consumer equipment, medical devices, materials production, electronics, and oil and gas.

The Mathematical Desk for Italian Industry is established at the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone" of the Italian National Research Council. The aim of the Mathematical Desk is to strengthen the connections between the Italian applied mathematics community and the industrial sector, promoting cooperation between firms and research centers, with a specific focus on Applied Mathematics. The project is supported by a wide network of scientific partners which represent the italian excellence in the field of mathematics applied to industrial problems.

Established in November 2011, with headquarters in Turin, Primavis mission is to design, to produce and to commercialize best in class internal combustion engines for hybrid and conventional motorized city cars, motorcycles, light airplanes, drones, ATV vehicles, light trucks, small boats, construction vehicles, agricultural vehicles, combined heat and power generation. Primavis has gathered a team of highly skilled, experienced and technically sharp individuals and is currently developing a range extender system, based on a patented innovative two strokes engine, addressing the market needs of low fuel consumption and pollutant emissions, extreme good compactness, lightness and specific power, and finally competitive production costs.

Simulation and virtual prototyping play an increasingly important role in engineering and design processes in the manufacturing industry. More often, to reproduce the complexity of a system, engineering software is avid of computational resources. For this reason, CINECA decided on 2003 to establish a new company, SCS Super Computing Solutions, whose mission is to facilitate the use of High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures and allow the access to advanced applications of numerical simulation in an industrial context: an absolutely necessary tool for modern R&D activity. SCS aims at facilitating and strengthening R&D processes in the manufacturing industry by making providing its customers an integrated package of HPC services.

VIRTUAL VEHICLE works at its site in Graz/Austria as a leading research and development centre on the vehicle concepts of the future. With its 200 experts it offers sound know-how in the field of virtual total vehicle development, comprehensive simulation, the functional testing of prototypes up to and including the validation of new concepts and methods. In cooperation with the most important scientific partner, the Technical University of Graz, a broad test and testing bed infrastructure is available for this, and concentrated at one location. VIRTUAL VEHICLE is a highly competent and application-orientated development partner both for the international automobile and mobility industries and a leading partner for scientific research. The skill of the employees, the worldwide network of partners and long-term research programmes make VIRTUAL VEHICLE a unique research center of excellence for the future concepts of mobility that meet the needs of tomorrow. Additional to the accomplishment of the internationally acknowledged K2 funding programme, VIRTUAL VEHICLE also works actively in various EU projects and offers a broad portfolio of contractual research.

CPU 24/7 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Potsdam/Berlin, is an innovative company specialised in providing High Performance Computing (HPC) power 'on demand' for industry and universities, for applications in development and research. Due to many years of experience and expertise in the provisioning of HPC power, CPU 24/7 offers these HPC On Demand resources in a timely manner with a secure ready-to-work workplace environment – either as flexibly and online bookable computing capacities for a limited period of time (Resource Area) or also as continuous state-of-the-art HPC systems geared to one's individual needs (Tailored Configurations).

Eurotech (ETH.MI) is a global company based in Italy, with subsidiaries in Europe, North America and Asia. The Eurotech Group develops and markets miniaturized computers for special uses (NanoPCs) and computers featuring high computing capacity (HPCs – High Performance Computers). The Eurotech HPC division has more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing HPCs and delivering HPC solutions. The Eurotech supercomputer line, Aurora, is a range of advanced, hot water cooled, ultra dense, green HPC systems, deployable anywhere, from the office to large data centres and to the field. The Aurora HPC systems are the most energy efficient in the world according to the June Green 500 and enable lower TCO. The Eurotech HPC solutions aim to lower our customers time to solution and time to market as much as the latest technology allow and in the most cost effective way.

NICE delivers Technical Cloud Products and Solutions, to worldwide customers, boosting productivity, saving money on IT and enabling faster design cycles and collaboration. NICE helps centralizing, optimizing and consolidating HPC and visualization resources while empowering distributed and mobile Engineering workforces to run batch and interactive applications anywhere, with any client. NICE also allows engineering teams around the world to collaborate by sharing application sessions over standard networks. NICE EnginFrame is an advanced, commercially supported grid portal that provides access to grid-enabled infrastructures, HPC clusters, data, licenses, and interactive applications. It can be accessed by any authorized user with a standard web browser. NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), NICE's remote 3D "virtual workstation" offering, is an advanced remote 3D access technology that allows technical end users to access robust 3D modeling tools through a web-based portal."

HIT09 is a spin-off of the University of Padua. The members combine decades of expertise in various fields of mechanical engineering and aerospace industries ranging from air and space propulsion, computational fluid dynamics to the realization of complex systems that have been tested in flight. The goal of HIT09 is to provide engineering support high-level, aimed at the development of innovative products, reduce development costs and production, increase the quality of the products, the increase in operating performance of the products, the reduction of production times. The methodology of our company is based on the ability to listen to customer needs, to understand the issues and to identify solutions that can be satisfactory in terms of excellent compromise between cost and expected result. Our added value lies in the transversal knowledge from various fields of engineering, especially in the aerospace field, which enable us to address problems with innovative methodologies, allowing us to explore innovative solutions.

Esterel Technologies is a leading provider of critical systems and software development solutions for the aerospace, defense, rail transportation, nuclear, and industrial & automotive domains. System and software engineers use SCADE® solutions to graphically design, verify, and automatically generate critical systems and software applications with high dependability requirements. Esterel Technologies SCADE product solutions easily integrate, allowing for development optimization and increased communication among team members. Esterel Technologies is part of ANSYS, a leading engineering simulation software providers.

Openeering is the EnginSoft business unit dedicated to the open source software for engineering and applied mathematics. Openeering has a wide expertise on the application of the Scilab framework to industrial problems.

Energy Cluster, supported by important leading firms in the sector, aims to provide structure and support to a system capable of providing top quality products and know-how, which is recognized as a provider of excellence in the energy market: a 'made in Italy' network with connections all over the world.
The association is an "extended laboratory" for developing research, innovation and training projects thanks to the involvement, together with the firms, of business associations, universities, knowledge and research centres, specialised institutions and public authorities.
All of these have a common aim: to "form our own system" and face the challenges of the international markets with a shared strategy, exploiting the evolutions and opportunities for growth offered by the energy market. Energy as a driver for innovation for genuinely sustainable development and as an element of economic growth.
Energy Cluster as a tool to grasp opportunities, strengthen and evolve enterprises towards a long-lasting competitiveness.

LS Dyna Italian Group. A group of expert engineers coming from industry, dedicated to explicit dynamic simulation

Phoenix Integration, a global leader in Software Integration and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, enables integration of models and simulations, process automation, results visualization and data management in the conceptual and preliminary stages of product design and systems analysis. Phoenix Integration was founded in 1995 to address the need to streamline product development and enhance decision-making capabilities within aerospace, defense, and heavy industry. As a result, Phoenix developed and introduced PHX ModelCenter® and Analysis Server—the potent duo that has set the benchmark for process integration and design optimization software. Following on the success of its integration offerings, Phoenix developed PHX CenterLink®, a comprehensive tool for web collaboration and parallel computing. Latest in the product portfolio, PHX AnalysisLibrary® is an engineering data repository and management tool especially well-suited to technical information that improves process efficiencies and effectiveness. Today, Phoenix Integration commands a leadership position in flexible, scalable, high-performance enterprise solutions for the conceptual and preliminary stages of product design and systems analysis. Phoenix software is used worldwide to enable integration of models and simulations, process automation, results visualization and data management. Global organizations that leverage Phoenix solutions include 9 of the top 10 U.S. defense contractors and 7 of the top 10 aerospace companies. With headquarters in Philadelphia and R&D facilities in Blacksburg (Virginia) in the US, and since 2011, office in Europe (France), Phoenix continues to develop and expand its products and capabilities to fulfill the needs of the ever-evolving marketplace

Newmerical Technologies is the world's premier developer and provider of in-flight icing simulation software and associated design, testing and certification services to aerospace companies desirous to apply safety standards that meet and exceed regulations. Newmerical is the one-stop-shop for a structured and systematic methodology to in-flight icing certification of aircraft, rotorcraft, jet engines and UAVs. As an agile company at the frontier of research, Newmerical is extremely attentive to the needs of the clients.They have chosen to establish themselves in a position of leadership by focusing on niche areas of CFD that are too complex for others to tackle, such as in-flight icing, aerodynamic design and computational wind engineering.

With full national capital contribution and the wide "know-how" of its partners in engineering calculation, INGECIBER, S.A. was founded in Madrid in 1986 to offer overall solutions in analysis and computer aided engineering (CAE). Since then, Ingeciber has been spreading and introducing in the Spanish industry a work technology that now is crucial in the main areas by its effectiveness and its accuracy to simulate and predict the real behaviour of models, designs, work hypothesis, projects, etc. It is the result of a business vision and professional experience of the management team and the projection of the staff composed in a 90% by qualified technicians. Ingeciber offers solutions to design processes and mechanic calculation, thermal, structural, fluid-dynamic (CFD), acoustic, electromagnetic, mechanical systems, etc

Sigmetrix designs, develops, markets and globally supports tolerance analysis solutions used to unite the "ideal" world of product design with the "real" world of manufacturing and assembly. With over 20 years of research and development, Sigmetrix is focused on eliminating the error between predictive tolerance models and measured physical results in the factory. Through intuitive modeling technologies, engineers construct very precise tolerance variation models directly from the CAD geometry. Sigmetrix' advanced analytical solutions and specialized services allow companies in virtually all industries to gain profound insight into the behavior of their products. This insight allows customers to objectively balance competing requirements and achieve exceptional return on their investment.