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To accelerate design and product development, and reduce time-to-market, manufacturing organizations are increasingly relying on IT to deliver infrastructure for simulations with increased model sophistication and detail. These simulations drive the need for faster compute that traditional dual- and quad-processor systems, with their limited memory, can no longer meet. To overcome these system limitations, software vendors have increasingly invested in scaling their applications to take advantage of the largest CPU solutions. These can be run either on shared memory processing (SMP) systems or on distributed memory systems (clusters). Market analysis shows that, when taking into account application scalability and software-licensing models, optimum system configurations are in the range of 4- to 16-processor and 128 GB to 512 GB. This makes solutions based on ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation aggregation platform an ideal choice for these environments.