FORT WORTH, TX (27 January 2010)—Pointwise, Inc., has announced a partnership with Go Virtual Nordic AB for the distribution of Pointwise software in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Go Virtual is a privately held independent company founded in Sweden in 2002, with the mission of helping companies be more successful in adopting virtual product development.

“The partnership with Pointwise is a continuation of our strategy to work with independent software vendors producing state-of-the-art software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD),” said Jan Wallenberg, Go Virtual chief executive officer. “By adding Pointwise to our software portfolio, we are able to offer customers a very strong CFD process from geometry to results. Pointwise is one of the best solutions for any customer that really cares about mesh quality and accuracy of the results.”

“Go Virtual is the ideal partner for us in Scandinavia,” said Rick Matus, Pointwise vice-president of sales and marketing. “They have many years of experience and considerable expertise in CFD meshing, flow solutions, and post-processing, combined with a reputation for strong customer support. I am looking forward to working with them to help customers get accurate CFD results in a short amount of time.”

Go Virtual has two offices in Sweden and one in Germany. Its customer base spans 13 European countries and many sectors, including government, academia and research, defense, aerospace, automotive and telecom. Its largest footprint is in the automotive sector. The company’s largest business areas are high performance computing (HPC) solutions and CAE software. They are the leading supplier of HPC hardware and CFD software in the Scandinavian market.

More information about Go Virtual is available on its web site, www.govirtual.eu.

Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today -- mesh generation for CFD. The company’s Gridgen and Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers, such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CD, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM, as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows (Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel and AMD), Mac and Unix, and has scripting languages that can automate CFD meshing. Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide rely on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution. More information about Gridgen and Pointwise is available at pointwise.com.

Pointwise and Gridgen are registered trademarks and Pointwise Glyph, Gridgen Glyph and T-Rex are trademarks of Pointwise, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owner.

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For more information:

Jan Batts Pointwise, Inc. 817-377-2807 Jan.batts@pointwise.com

Per Österdahl Go Virtual Nordic AB +46-31-748-88-76 Per.osterdahl@govirtual.se