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Dear Customer,

NICE s.r.l, the developer of EnginFrame, the world’s first grid portal, would like to reconfirm its commitment to EnginFrame customers in light of the recent acquisition of Platform Computing by IBM

Platform has been an authorized reseller of EnginFrame.  NICE does not expect this to change in the foreseeable future, and our longstanding relationship with IBM should only be strengthened by this acquisition.

However, NICE would like to reassure all customers that we will continue to develop and provide support for EnginFrame.  Should Platform or IBM choose to change strategy related to our products, customers are welcome to purchase our products and support from another authorized resellers or directly from us.  

NICE continues to develop new features for EnginFrame with new versions being introduced on a regular basis.  In addition, we develop complimentary products like EnginFrame Views that delivers load-balanced session management of 2D/3D sessions for remote visualization and collaboration.  NICE has also recently introduced our new Desktop Cloud Visualization product, the first remote display protocol that supports multiple OpenGL-enabled sessions on a single server and with one or more GPUs.

We would be happy to provide additional information regarding any of these products.  You can contact us through our web site, and should you plan to attend the upcoming SC11 show in Seattle, we would be please to invite you to our booth, #2541.

NICE is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2012.0 release of its Desktop Cloud Visualization (NICE DCV) product.

This new release represents a breakthrough in remote 3D visualization, as it is the first product in the market to perform GPU sharing across multiple Microsoft Windows and Linux Desktops.

Extending existing support for Linux and Windows running on physical nodes, NICE DCV is now bringing full GPU acceleration to Virtual Machines, therefore enabling Companies and Cloud providers to deliver Virtual Workstations services to their users.

Therefore, the new version of NICE DCV allows multiple users to run OpenGL applications served by a Private or Public Cloud configuration, or just simply remotely access their own dedicated workstation sitting in their office or datacenter, via LAN or WAN.

Leveraging partnerships with leading technology providers and OEMs, NICE DCV has been tuned to get the best performance on NVIDIA high-end Quadro and Tesla GPUs running major CAD applications, as well as many Technical Computing applications.

When NICE DCV is complemented with our flagship EnginFrame HPC and Remote Visualization gateway, customers can enjoy Web based access to the most demanding batch and interactive applications, boosting data access performance, model scalability and overall user productivity compared to traditional desk-side based computing.
 

To learn more:

• http://www.nice-software.com/products/dcv
• http://www.nice-software.com/solutions/remote-visualization

About NICE

NICE delivers comprehensive Grid & Technical Computing Cloud Products and Solutions. NICE product portfolio boosts productivity of Private and Public Clouds by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control. NICE global customers include leading companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Universities and Scientific Research.

At SC11, NICE (booth# 2541) will be showcasing the advances and applications of NICE EnginFrame the leading Grid Portal that enables user-friendly and application-oriented HPC job submission, control and monitoring. 

Stop by the NICE booth speak with NICE qualified personnel can provide about and NICE EnginFrame Views  and Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), our 3D remote visualization solution enabling users to connect to OpenGL applications running in remote data centers.

This year NICE is once again pleased to participate in the Enginsoft conference, the must-attend event for advanced numerical modeling technologies and software. This year Enginsoft will be held in Verona, Italy so if you are attending please drop by to our stand in the sponsor exhibit area during the show.

Our staff are on hand to give any information, demos and all you need to know on our Cloud and Grid portals solutions. Plus you will have the chance to view and use our latest release of NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) for 3D remote visualization.

See you in Verona!

Asti,  – June 18th,  2011: NICE, pioneer in Grid/Cloud portals and computing services access solutions, today announced the new NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) software system, that enables remote 3D visual interaction and collaboration over networks. Available on Microsoft Windows and Linux, DCV allows organizations to consolidate 3D applications, their massive datasets and powerful GPUs into the datacenter, and provide an outstanding user experience. DCV can run multiple sessions on a physical node, as well as run on multiple VMs, still leveraging the physical GPU of the hosting machine.

3D visualization is pivotal for innovation and efficiency in many fields, including Engineering CAD/CAE, Energy, Oil&Gas, Life Sciences, Health Care, Research and Scientific Visualization. A rich and fluid remote 3D visualization experience enables enterprises to make timely decisions that involve large data volumes that would be impractical to deliver to a user’s workstation.  The ability for multiple  users to access the same visual image, separately or in collaboration, around the globe improves  organizational coordination, quality of results and speeds time to market.

For example, the Aerospace and Automotive industries can consolidate expensive and power hungry workstations into a flexible and efficient data center, allowing designers in multiple locations to work and collaborate on new product designs via a private Cloud. Similarly, Medical and Health Care organizations can benefit from real time access and collaborative analysis of 3D medical images to improve patient care.

As the Cloud paradigm is gaining momentum, 3D visualization is a key element to enable many desktop applications (including CAD/CAE, productivity or authoring tools) to be delivered as a service at the necessary speed.

Based upon the former IBM Deep Computing Visualization technology, DCV has been significantly  improved and now supports virtualization technologies, NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) uses high performance workstations or visualization blades with the latest generation of commodity graphics adapters to create an extraordinarily flexible and powerful visualization solution used by customers all over the world.

With today’s news, NICE  will deliver end-to-end, optimized solutions to enable 3D applications running on Linux® , Windows® and virtualized visualization servers to run in more  efficient and secure datacenters and become accessible from desktops or laptops,  with excellent responsiveness and performance on every network connection.

NICE plans to evolve and exploit its Desktop Cloud Visualization technology worldwide, enriching it with its EnginFrame Views, the worldwide leading Web 2.0-based remote visualization solution. DCV will then span from on-demand 3D enablement of Public Clouds all the way into scalable Private Cloud deployments, where DCV offers the most fluid 3D experience, helping the consolidation process of enterprises and scientific community.

"Nice has a clear vision on the next-generation high performance computing Grid and Cloud, enabling new services, new experiences and new business models based on 3D remote visualization," said Beppe Ugolotti, CEO of NICE. "Incorporating NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) into NICE flagship product EnginFrame, we will deliver a new strategic value to our customers."

NICE EnginFrame solutions aims to empower user productivity with the Grid Portal and deliver user-friendly, highly customizable access to applications and infrastructures. With NICE DCV  users can remotely work on 3D interactive applications, fully accelerated by high end GPUs on workstations, blades or servers. No matter if users are accessing high-end OpenGL modeling applications or the simple viewers, NICE DCV enables users  to connect quickly and securely from anywhere and experience high frame rates, even with low bandwidth standard Internet connections.
With the planned release of NICE DCV for Virtual Machines on July 30, new key features will be added to the already available and delivered versions for Microsoft Windows and Linux.

NICE offers a fully integrated Enterprise solution based on EnginFrame, its open PaaS/SaaS Self-Service portal framework for Clusters, Grids and Clouds.

To learn more, click here: http://www.nice-software.com/remote-visualization

About NICE

Capitalizing on 15 years experience in Industry & Research HPC implementations, NICE delivers comprehensive Grid & Cloud Solutions for companies and institutions, increasing user productivity to access applications and computing resources. NICE products portfolio empowers Grid & Cloud infrastructures by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control.
NICE has hundreds of customers all over the world including top companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Universities and Scientific Research.
NICE has a dedicated, experienced team of experts that can assist throughout the deployment life-cycle, from software planning, implementation and testing stages, to performance tuning, and support in the production stage.

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