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SANTA ANA, CA -- MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE:MNS), a leading global provider of simulation software, services and systems, and Nittetsu Plant Designing, an affiliate company of Nippon Steel Corp., today announced that the Nittetsu's System Engineering Department has selected MSC.Marc's Domain Decomposition Method (DDM) and the MSC.Linux cluster system to solve complex engineering problems. Nittetsu Plant Designing specializes in designing iron-making processes and environmental plants. "Manufacturers around the world are finding extraordinary value in the nonlinear analysis capabilities of MSC.Marc running on the MSC.Linux operating system," said Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "MSC.Software's work with Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation is an example of the ways in which we are helping manufacturers and engineers save time and money by combining simulation software like MSC.Marc's DDM and computing platforms like MSC.Linux." For Nittetsu's evaluation of the MSC.Marc's DDM and MSC.Linux technologies, MSC.Software conducted a benchmark study on thermal and stress analysis on both UNIX and Linux environments. This benchmark showed that analysis performed under Linux cluster is significantly faster than UNIX for thermal and stress analysis. "Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation expects to find further efficiencies in the design process for in-house and engineering phenomenon by performing more analysis case testing and large-model analysis with the DDM parallel computing capabilities in MSC.Marc under a Linux cluster environment," said Atsushi Yumoto, System Engineering Department of Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation. MSC.Marc is a general-purpose finite element program for advanced engineering simulation. The MSC.Marc family of products has evolved and matured through constant development and worldwide use by thousands of engineers involved in the most challenging problems in structural physics. With 40-years of experience in high-performance computing across many industries, MSC.Software is leveraging its strengths in scientific and technical computing to deliver its customers state-of-the-art, high performance computing solutions based on clustering computers (Beowulf clusters) and the specially engineered high performance operating system -- MSC.Linux. For more information visit www.mscsoftware.com.