November 28, 2005, Lebanon, NH, USA

Fluent Inc., the world leader in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services, is pleased to announce it has been presented with an award at the recent prestigious 18 th Annual Supercomputing Show held in Seattle, Washington, USA. Fluent Inc., in association with American Power Conversion (APC), AMD and Ferrari, swept the “Most Innovative Implementation of an HPC Application“ category in the opinion of both HPCwire Magazine readers and a panel of luminaries representing HPC Editors and industry magazines, for the recently opened Ferrari Data Center application implementation in Maranello, Italy. Fluent was the only CFD provider to receive an award.

HPCwire Magazine presents a Reader's Choice and Editor's Choice Award for each of its 23 to 25 categories:

Readers' Choice, winners are determined by a random poll of a sample of HPCwire readers Editors' Choice, winners are determined by votes of a panel of recognized HPC luminaries, and contributing editors from industry magazines These awards are widely recognized within the HPC community.

"Each year, HPCwire and its readers recognize the instrumental acts and accomplishments that are paving the way in the HPC industry as we continually push the edge of high performance computing", said Tom Tabor, publisher, HPCwire and GRIDtoday. "We are very proud to take time each year to offer citations of excellence in honoring the leaders in this industry. The spirit of this award has always been community- oriented, as we look to our readers and industry luminaries to make the determination on who is deserving of recognition for the year. It is indeed an honor to reveal the winners of these prestigious and highly anticipated awards."

Commenting on winning this High Performance Computing Award, Paul Bemis, VP of Marketing at Fluent said, “It has been wonderful to partner with Ferrari, AMD and APC to take this Award. We have been committed to giving the best possible CFD solution to supercomputing CFD users for over a decade now, and our leadership in highly scalable parallel processing software is enabling companies to harness FLUENT for competitive advantage in engineering design.This Award truly affirms our leadership of the high performance computing CFD applications sector because we were judged by the only court that matters – that of industrial CFD users and industrial technical magazine editors."

For more information on the HPCwire Magazine awards: http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/509896.html

For more information on the recent launch of the Ferrari Data Center: http://www.fluent.com/about/news/pr/pr107.htm

About Fluent

Fluent is the world's largest provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and consulting services. Fluent's software is used for simulation, visualization, and analysis of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions. It is a vital part of the computer-aided engineering (CAE) process for companies around the world and is deployed in nearly every manufacturing industry. FLUENT is used extensively in the Motor Racing industry worldwide by the vast majority of race teams. Using Fluent's software, 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. Fluent's corporate headquarters are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, with offices in Belgium, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, China and Sweden. Its CFD software is also available around the world through joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Korea, Australia, Brazil, China, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Middle East, and most European countries.

For general inquiries contact:

Jennifer Correa Fluent Inc. 10 Cavendish Court Lebanon, NH 03766 (603) 643-2600 Ext. 668 jrc@fluent.com