| General Features
| GPBEST-DCE installation checking |
| Input data error checking |
| User and load sensing of available hosts |
| Dynamic GPBEST-DCE load balancing |
| Speedup and time savings calculation |
| Automatically releases hosts from GPBEST-DCE configuration when no longer needed |
| Courtesy weighting and variable priority factor capabilities |
| Documented GPBEST-DCE result and log files |
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| Elastic Stress Analysis
| Isotropic and anisotropic media |
| Centrifugal and self-weight body forces |
| Axisymmetric bodies under non-axisymmetric loading |
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| Thermal Stress Analysis
| Steady-state and transient thermal stress analysis |
| Concurrent heat transfer and stress analysis |
| Thermal distortion analysis |
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| Heat Transfer Analysis
| Steady-state and transient heat conduction |
| Thermal resistance across subregions |
| Other potential flow or diffusive systems
| such as corrosive electrolytic processes |
| electrostatics and ground water flow |
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| Acoustic Analysis
| Acoustic eigenfrequency analysis |
| General periodic and transient scalar wave problems |
| Structural acoustics |
| FEM regions |
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| Nonlinear Stress Analysis
| Frictional interfaces between sub-structured regions |
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| A large US aircraft manufacturing corporation |
| A large international appliance manufacturer |
| Several US automobile manufacturing companies |
| A number of biomedical equipment manufacturing firms |
| A number of large machinery manufacturing corporations |
| Large Japanese automobile manufacturing companies |
| Several German appliance design and manufacturing companies |
| Heavy transportation equipment manufacturer |
| A large Canadian gas turbine manufacturing company |
| A large US gas turbine manufacturing company |