VINAS is stepping up its design consulting service
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It’s that time of year, and we are delighted to announce forthcoming "VINAS Users Conference 2008" thanks to many users from academic institutions to private corporations who kindly accepted to present their impressive cases in various fields of expertise such as aerospace, automobile, heavy industry and industrial equipment.

One notable aspect of our user conference is that highly advanced application examples from real research and design projects are presented regardless of the types and brands of solvers that are used. This year, we offer a series of presentations about technologies used in handling of very large analysis data and their advantageous effects, as one of the highlighted themes of the conference.

Participants will also be presented with future development plans of our software products and our comprehensive consulting services that encompass automotive weight reduction, noise and vibration suppression, and turbomachinery design, with their beneficial effects that have been achieved so far. Representatives from developers of CFD/CAE software are also invited to present the latest information about their software development and give previews of the next versions of their software, and participating users are encouraged to ask questions and discuss related issues with them in person.

The keynote speech of this year is given by Mr. Kenji Ono from RIKEN on DAY 1 (October 15th), outlining the much talked about next generation super computer (so-called "peta-computer"), which is capable of handling very large computation tasks and has the highest computation capability in the world, and its latest developments.

Other interesting sessions cover the recent trend of open source CFD solvers such as OpenFOAM, which is steadily becoming popular around the world, as well as FrontFlow, which is developed by the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. We are sure that this will give you deeper insights into future use of CFD solvers.

All the sessions in this conference are in fact very informative for those of you who want to improve efficiency of CFD/CAE processes. There will also be various opportunities for participants to meet each other for networking.

We very much look forward to seeing you in the conference.