APPLICATIONS

PALO ALTO, CA -- Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP) today announced its support of 13 major mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) applications for HP systems running the HP-UX 11i operating system. The MCAE applications that have been ported, tuned, and fully supported include: ANSYS from Ansys, Inc.; FIRE from AVL GmbH; CFX from CFX, Ltd.; STAR-CD and Expert Systems Tools from CD adapco Group; ENSIGHT from Computational Engineering International, Inc., iSIGHT from Engineous Software, Inc., PAM-CRASH and PAM-FLOW from ESI Group, SA; LS-DYNA and MPP-DYNA from Livermore Software Technology Corp.; and MSC.NASTRAN and MSC.MARC from MSC.Software, Inc. Working with its independent software vendor (ISV) partners, HP began porting MCAE applications two and a half years ago by utilizing early versions of HP-UX and Itanium Processor Family compilers on its PA-RISC systems. As the Itanium Processor Family architecture technologies matured, HP deployed systems to the ISV partners and continued to work closely throughout the porting and release process. "The support of these key MCAE applications is indicative of HP's continued commitment to the advancement and acceptance of the Itanium architecture technology," said Knute Christensen, HP, MCAE Global Program Manager. "Being on the cutting edge of high-performance computing enables HP to provide our ISV partners with the technology they require to make these applications available to our customers." HP uses the HP-UX operating system and development environment to maximize the performance of Itanium-based applications. HP's innovative ISV partner strategy advances the technology that gives customers a competitive advantage and facilitates faster time-to-market. "The reliability of HP systems has enabled us to speed the deployment of our software to Itanium-based systems," said Frank Perna, Chairman and CEO of MSC.Software Inc. "The combination of MSC.Software's analysis products and the performance and stability of Itanium-based systems allows us to provide our customers with the tools they need to solve computationally intensive engineering and research problems." "HP's technical leadership was a critical factor in the early release of STAR-CD on Itanium-based systems," said Steve MacDonald, Director and General Manager, CD adapco Group. "Our continued collaboration with HP will provide technical advances to empower our customers for many years."