(Nasdaq: ANSS), a global innovator of simulation software and technologies
designed to optimize product development processes, today announced a
collaboration with Matereality, L.
AMSC's HTS wire and power electronic converters are at the core of a broad
range of new electricity transmission and distribution, transportation,
medical and industrial processing applications, including dynamic reactive
power grid stabilization solutions, large ship propulsion motors and
generators, smart , controllable, superconductor power cables and advanced
defense systems.

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As a result, ANSYS Workbench users can access a wealth of
databases that contain material property data, furthering engineers' ability
to analyze designs directly on the desktop.
Matereality is a Web-based data management technology that contains
thousands of datasets including stress-strain data; rate -dependent properties;
hyperelastic properties; thermal properties; and creep, viscoelastic, and
fatigue data on plastics, metals, rubber, foam and composites -- data that is
particularly relevant to the ANSYS user community and often not available
publicly. Electromagnetic coils supplied by HTS -110, Ltd. "We believe this is one of many new commercial products that will
utilize HTS wire in the near future, and we believe we are strongly positioned

to be a leading supplier of HTS magnets and components for this new, growing
industry.
HTS-110 Ltd manufactures a range of HTS 1-5 Tesla magnets and components
such as current leads and coils. More information is available at
http: //www.

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ANSYS Inc. and Matereality L.L.C. Announce Interoperability

For more information, visit http: //www. More information
is available at http://www. The company presently has clients in Asia, North America
and Australia.

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The new instrument incorporates an electromagnetic
coil built with HTS wire in order to increase its versatility and lower its
operating costs relative to similar systems that utilize copper or low
temperature superconductor wire.
The HTS electromagnet utilized in Quantum Design's new instrument -- the
PPMS NitroLab -- generates a magnetic field of 1 Tesla (T), which is about
20,000 times stronger than the earth's magnetic field., located in New Zealand , manufactures the HTS electromagnets
for the PPMS NitroLab.

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L. It is scaleable to
enterprise-level and has been designed to fit into and contribute to the
collaborative world of product design, without each group having to redesign
their own material data management systems.
ANSYS, Inc. "We are delighted to be working with Quantum Design and HTS-
110 to make the PPMS NitroLab one of the first of a new breed of HTS-based
products available on the market.

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They can evaluate the data
for pertinence and export it digitally into ANSYS Workbench.

, a manufacturer of superconductor magnet systems and components,
and American Superconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: AMSC), the world 's principal
vendor of high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire, today jointly announced
the introduction of a new product for measuring the fundamental physical
properties of materials."
HTS-110 Ltd. The company was established in April 2004
based on 17 years of high temperature superconductor research in Industrial
Research Limited. For more information, please see http:/ /www.

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Quantum Design Introduces New High Temperature Superconductor-Based Product for Physical Property Measurements

Liquid nitrogen --
cheaper than bottled water -- is employed as the coolant for the
electromagnet. AMSC is a part owner of HTS-
110.

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About Matereality
Matereality, L.C.

About HTS-110 Ltd.

About American Superconductor
AMSC is the world's principal vendor of high temperature superconductor
(HTS) wire and large rotating superconductor machinery, and it is a world-
leading supplier of dynamic reactive power grid stabilization products.

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ANSYS and Matereality will continue to build
closer integration to extract wider varieties of ANSYS-relevant material data
for future ANSYS material models," said Mike Wheeler, vice president and
general manager at ANSYS.
"As future ANSYS material models are developed, clients' material data within
Matereality would always be ready for deployment using the relevant updates
developed through the collaboration.L.
We believe it will be attractive for scientists and educators around the world
who need basic materials characterization capability , but whose budgets might
not support liquid helium. It develops, manufactures and sells electromagnets and
components "Powered by AMSC(TM)" for systems that can benefit from greater
compactness and higher electrical efficiency. "Quantum Design is at the leading edge of
a revolution in instruments and other electrical systems that are going to
take advantage of the high electrical efficiency and power density of HTS
wire," he said."

About Quantum Design
Quantum Design manufactures products that have become the industry
standard for researchers in the fields of physics, materials science and
chemistry.

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The Company focuses on the development
of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly
on the desktop, providing a common platform for fast, efficient and cost-
conscious product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and
validation ."
AMSC, based in Massachusetts, is the world's principal vendor of HTS wire.

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The high-end capabilities of ANSYS in multi-physics, crash,
fatigue, long-term behavior (creep), viscoelastic behavior and computational
fluid dynamics can be more fully utilized with the easy availability of
nonlinear material properties.
"While serving an important role as a materials data resource, Matereality
also allows ANSYS users to maintain their own personal material databases and
have global, secure access and control over their data.com.

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com. and its
subsidiaries employ approximately 600 people and distribute ANSYS products
through a network of channel partners in over 40 countries. Visit
http://www. Quantum Design expects its
first sales of the new product to occur within the next nine months.

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Matereality does not have to be populated from scratch.'s HTS wire at heart of new measurement system

SAN DIEGO, Quantum Design, a premiere
developer of measurement devices and sensors for the scientific community,
HTS-110 Ltd.
The PPMS NitroLab will be introduced at the American Physical Society
Meeting in Los Angeles, CA on March 21 - 25, 2005.
Greg Yurek , Chairman and CEO of AMSC commented that he expects Quantum
Design's new PPMS NitroLab to be one of many new products that will emerge now
that the performance of HTS wire has achieved commercial levels and it is
available in commercial quantities. Privately held with a strong domestic and international customer
base, the company offers three major product lines: the Magnetic Property
Measurement System (MPMS(R)), the Physical Property Measurement System
(PPMS(R)), and a complete line of rf and dc SQUID sensors and electronics.
The firm was established in 1982 and is based in San Diego.

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S.com for more information. "Because this new instrument utilizes liquid nitrogen -- cheap and
readily available everywhere -- operating costs will be significantly reduced.

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"This technology interface will greatly expand the accuracy of simulations
that ANSYS users can perform by giving them access to relevant material
property data.com,
telephone 1-607-257-1784 or send email to info@matereality. product
and service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of ANSYS, Inc .
Quantum Design's family of Physical Property Measurement Systems (PPMS(R))
enables scientists and technicians to automate the characterization of
materials, including their thermal, magnetic and electrical properties, which
are fundamental to the understanding and development of advanced materials. It will
be one of the first commercial products in the world to utilize HTS wire,
which loses all resistance to the flow of electricity when cooled with liquid
nitrogen and which can conduct more than 140 times the electrical current of
copper wires of the same dimensions.com.

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Collaboration Exports Material Data from Matereality(R) into ANSYS(R)
Workbench (TM)

SOUTHPOINTE, Pa.A.

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Providing a single source of data
access ensures that all involved in a collaborative project use the same data
fits and views for a specific material, rather than apply their own data fit
calculations from input data from different databases, text books, testing
services, etc.hts-110.com.

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"The high power density and high electrical efficiency of AMSC 's HTS wires
makes it ideal for creating a new addition to our popular line of physical
property measurement systems," said Ron Sager, chairman and CEO of Quantum
Design.

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Matereality allows individuals
and enterprises to securely store any kind of material properties on a Web-
based platform in TrueDigital(TM) format.matereality.

ANSYS, ANSYS Workbench, CFX, AUTODYN, and any and all ANSYS, Inc.

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Using Matereality's MIRO CAE Wizard, ANSYS Workbench users can quickly
search their personal databases, as well as important industry public and
private data collections, for ANSYS-relevant data. utilizing American
Superconductor Corp.

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, based in the United States, serves a diverse user
base including automotive, appliance, tier-one, material supplier, material
testing , medical device and consumer product verticals with Web-based
solutions for their material information needs. or
its subsidiaries located in the United States or other countries. ICEM CFD is
a trademark licensed by ANSYS, Inc.
"We are delighted to have built the electromagnetic coil for Quantum
Design's new physical property measurement system," said Geoff Todd, CEO of
HTS-110.

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The most extensive source of such data, Matereality also provides
access to plastics material supplier databases, the MIL5 Handbook Database
(used extensively by the aerospace and defense industries) and the NIST Lead-
Free Solder Database (pertinent to the electronics industry). In this system, users
can hide, publish or selectively share data in keeping with their business
needs, building collections that form an enduring part of the knowledge base
of the enterprise," said Renu Gandhi , VP Business Development at Matereality.

About ANSYS, Inc. Headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania , U. The Company's products are supported by hundreds of patents
and licenses covering technologies fundamental to Revolutionizing the Way the
World Uses Electricity(TM).amsuper.

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Matereality is
globally deployed and available to registered users anywhere, anytime. Matereality also can be used to
locate relevant material data and to request data from people and companies
that collaborate with each other ., founded in 1970, develops and globally markets engineering
simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers and designers
across a broad spectrum of industries. All other trademarks or registered
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.qdusa.

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, ANSYS, Inc . that has produced an interface to
smoothly export material data inputs from Matereality(R) into ANSYS(R)
Workbench(TM). Matereality solutions are created with the
awareness and agility to adapt to PLM needs of clients worldwide, from FORTUNE
500 enterprise solutions to small businesses, as virtual product development
(VPD) needs evolves., with more than
25 strategic sales locations throughout the world, ANSYS, Inc.

The properties of the materials are described by the constitutive equation (rheological equation of state)which may an include other then mechanical quantities, suchas magnetic or electrical fields.