Software and services for the automotive industry

This booklet presents a focal point of the institute's activities: The collaboration with the automotive industry – with producers as well as with suppliers. Fraunhofer SCAI stands for innovative mathematical solutions in frontline themes of numerical simulation and optimisation like multiphysics, robust design, data compression, and optimisation in logistics.

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Approaching the Cloud: Better Business Using Grid Solutions

The new booklet within the project BEinGRID, the largest European Union funded IT project, gives an impressive overview of successful case studies covering the industrial sectors from Advanced Manufacturing, Media, Financial, Retail and Logistics, Environment and e-Science, Telecommunication, Tourism, and Agriculture to Health. The case studies show how businesses may profit from distributed computing – from Grid to Cloud solutions. In an economy that often insists on proven business cases to innovate, the booklet offers just that: concrete examples of how and why Grid and Cloud solutions can benefit the described industrial sectors. In the booklet, Fraunhofer SCAI describes how Grid Computing can accelerate the design and development of new ships and finally enhance the shipyards’ competitive power.

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• www.beingrid.eu/casestudies.html

Fraunhofer Enterprise Grids

Fraunhofer Enterprise Grids offers you a broad line-up of consulting, services and software solutions in the technology areas of Grid, Service Oriented Architectures and IT Virtualisation. Furthermore you obtain complete solutions beginning with the custom-made product of efficient algorithms, software applications and services up to the operation of the IT infrastructure needed for it on the resources of the Fraunhofer Society. All four issues are available as free download:

• »Software« (PDF 3,7 MB)
• »Business Cases« (PDF 3,3 MB)
• »Commercial Grid Tools 2009« (PDF 4,1 MB)
• »Grid Check« (PDF 3,0 MB)