New Distributed Computing Capabilities

"Computing power at your fingertips" is a relatively new idea to engineers. In fact, many typical engineering activities, which tend to be time-consuming, compute-intensive, and highly repetitive definitely benefit from this concept. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire brings the power of cutting edge, web-based distributed computing technologies to your desktop.

Distributed Pro/BATCH Distributed Pro/BATCH provides some exciting new features in addition to the ability to distribute and process batch jobs over the network. It addresses key inadequacies with the existing Pro/BATCH tool available with Pro/ENGINEER as well as enhances the breadth of functionality. Additionally, it dramatically automates the following tasks: Exporting and importing from 2D interfaces Exporting and importing from 3D interfaces Exporting to visualization and image formats Batch execution of ModelCHECK Plotting and Printing

New Graphical Interface XML-based batch processing instructions

Distributed Services Manager Distributed Services Manage (DSM) is a network-based resource management software application to be released with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. The DSM will allow the engineers and CAD administrators to setup and manage a "server farm" of network resources that will be used to perform client requested tasks such as batch processing of Pro/ENGINEER related tasks with Distributed Pro/BATCH. DSM leverages open, web standards and distributed computing protocols, namely SOAP, XML, and HTTP.

Schedule network resources to process jobs Queuing of jobs, if resources are unavailable or busy Web-portal interface to view real-time status of jobs from any location