Fluent Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of ANSYS, Inc., one of the world’s largest providers of multiphysics and CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) software and consulting services. ANSYS software is a vital part of the CAE process for companies around the world and is deployed in nearly every manufacturing industry. Using ANSYS software, product development, design and research engineers build virtual prototypes and simulate the performance of proposed and existing designs, allowing them to improve design quality while reducing cost and speeding time to market. ANSYS-Fluent has enjoyed close cooperation and partnership with Sauber Petronas since the beginning of 2002 and will continue this with the BMW Sauber F1 Team. Cadence Design Systems, Inc., the BMW Sauber F1 Team and BMW Motor-sport signed a collaboration partnership in 2008, for several years. The Cadence company logo appears on the Formula BMW cars and driver overalls as well as on the Formula One garage walls, trucks and the BMW Paddock Club Suite. Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and micro-electronics systems. Customers use Cadence® software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors and electronic systems used in consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, computers, automotive systems and more. The electronic design automation leader, Cadence reported 2006 revenues of approximately $ 1.5 billion, and has approximately 5,000 employees. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at: The Certina company was founded in Grenchen, Switzerland, in 1888 and has been part of the Swatch Group since 1983. The Swatch Group employs a workforce of around 21,000 and in 2006 achieved a turnover over 5 billion Swiss francs. Today the head office of the Swiss sports watchmaker Certina is in Le Locle, Switzerland. An international company, it became involved in Formula One in 2005 as a partner of Sauber Petronas and will also continue the season 2008 with the new BMW Sauber F1 Team. DALCO AG, headquartered in Volketswil, Switzerland, is one of Europe’s leading producers of cluster-based Linux solutions in the field of supercomputing and the leading supplier of Linux-based solutions in Switzerland. The BMW Sauber F1 Team supercomputer was designed and built by DALCO. The product range encompasses supercomputers, custom-configured servers and high-perfor-mance workstations as well as extensive SAN and NAS storage solutions, all the way to high-availability, fault-tolerant systems.
