3D Insiders' Summit a Great Success!

Catch the Wave . . .

Spatial's CEO Keith Mountain opened the Summit by making an entrance while hanging ten. Keith focused on the 'waves' of technology that can affect our businesses. Highlight from the presentation: The business of providing mathematics and physics based application software is no longer isolated into a few well defined technology domains. Technology from adjacent domains can have significant effects on our businesses. Spatial has been working with technology and technology partners in areas that we believe will affect our customers’ domains. Specifically, new technology in flexible volumetric meshing, space warping, constraint management and multi-core computers have led to advancements in electronic design automation, reverse kinematics and robotics, manufacturing process modeling and thread-safe modeling. Spatial has recently introduced new capabilities and new products based upon these technologies that are aimed at providing superior competitive positioning for our customers in their application domains.

Parallel Revolution . . .

Spatial was thrilled to have James Reinders of Intel as the Keynote Speaker at the Summit. James is the Chief Software Evangelist and Director of Software Development Products at Intel, and his presentation, Parallel or Perish!! - Are you Ready? focused on the software revolution triggered by the shift to multi-core hardware architectures.

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ACIS Forecast . . .

Adding to the topic of multi-core hardware was Spatial's Jeff Happoldt, Technical Fellow. Jeff's topic, Multi-Threading with Thread-Safe ACIS described how this new technology allows our customers to take advantage of multiple CPUs very effectively at the highest possible levels (coarse grain parallelism).

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Roadmaps . . .

Spatial's Director of Product Planning and Management, Ray Bagley, shared two presentations this year: Uncovering Tomorrow's Application Needs and Gaining Competitive Advantage with Specialized Components. Ray covered how Spatial's product roadmaps for ACIS, InterOp, and application-level components align with the demand for more specialized applications that solve increasingly complex problems. Additionally, he explored several recently introduced specialized components for enabling advanced capabilities in EDA, CAE, and manufacturing applications.