SANTA ANA, CA -- MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE: MNS), the leading global provider of simulation software, services and systems, and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP), a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services today announced that MSC.Software's High Performance Computing Division has been selected by HP as their global partner for technical computing. The combination of HP's hardware platforms and MSC.Software's Linux cluster distribution and systems integration capabilities gives companies needing computationally intensive computing environments a turnkey solution for performing technical analysis of complex engineering and scientific problems. ``We have had an excellent working relationship with HP for the past decade and are excited to be named their global partner in high performance computing,'' said Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. ``The furthering of MSC.Software's work with HP illustrates our commitment to giving customers the very best software, services and systems to make their design and manufacturing processes as effective and efficient as possible. We look forward to continuing to push the envelope with HP in the high performance computing arena and expanding our capabilities to meet customer demand for systems and services.'' ``With the combination of MSC.Software's High Performance Computing systems integration group and HP hardware platforms, customers have the best in class tools and partners to assemble and administer large-scale compute clusters that deliver supercomputing performance,'' said Martin Fink, general manager of HP's Linux systems operations. ``Customers benefit by improved time to market and lower costs.'' The combination of MSC.Software's High Performance Computing systems and HP's hardware platforms gives customers a tailor-made solution for tackling complex performance and design analysis associated with research and development in industries such as aerospace, automotive and industrial manufacturing. Manufacturers, engineers, and researchers are able to perform extremely complex analysis faster and for less cost by employing high performance computing. Recently installed MSC.Linux systems are helping customers run jobs 400% faster at 1/3 the cost over previous systems and can be up and running jobs within 3-4 hours of the MSC.Software team arriving to install the systems on site. For more information on HP's position on the MSC.Linux distribution, visit HP's website at http://www.hp.com/products1/linux/news_events/MSC_offer.html. For more information about MSC.Linux and MSC.Software's High Performance Computing solutions visit http://www.msclinux.com.