ANSYS CFD software comprises the biggest contract of commercial CFD tools in the shipbuilding industry: ANSYS, a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that the global shipbuilding company Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (SHI) in Seoul, Korea has selected ANSYS technology to improve the quality and fluid dynamics of their tankers, vessels and other products. SHI contracted with the ANSYS channel partner Advanced Technology Engineering Service Co., Ltd. (ATES) in Korea for 128 parallel licenses of ANSYS computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. This is the largest parallel license add-on ever completed in the Korean shipbuilding industry.

For the past three months, five teams of university students have been using their computer programming skills to deploy what they hope will be the winning robots in the Robotics Competition to be held as part of the 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference. The Tapia 2007 Conference will take place October 14-17, 2007 in Orlando, Florida with the theme of “Passion in Computing – Diversity in Innovation.”