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ANSYS, a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced the first customer availability of version 10.0 of the complete ANSYS software suite. Offering major advances in performance, ease-of-use, interoperability and coupled physics technology, such as fluid structure interaction (FSI), ANSYS 10.0 builds upon and is compatible with the ANSYS 9.0 software suite. "We continue to believe our integrated approach to simulation, combined with our unmatched performance upgrades and leading-edge coupled physics technology, will meet the ever-increasing needs of our customers' product development requirements," said Jim Cashman, president and CEO at ANSYS, Inc. "Our mutual focus with customers on enabling improved productivity, process compression and product quality positively impacts our customers' bottom line." Current customers can easily access version 10.0 through the ANSYS customer portal. For a detailed list of features and benefits, including recent enhancements, visit its Web site.