The path we have taken has not been a smooth one, from the original development of the world's first general-purpose particle method software and the development of its market, to the creation of a platform that bets on the potential of GPU computing.
With the support of many users and partners, and with our employees standing shoulder to shoulder, we were able to overcome many difficulties.

Let's continue to work together to create the next future of Prometech Group, which will solve social issues as technology advances.

1996

Professor Koshizuka et al.(The University of Tokyo) present MPS, a computational method that enables the simulation of phenomena such as water spray and structural failure.

2002

Established "Visual Engineering Study Group" to aim at the fusion of simulation and computer graphics: at the workshop on IT program of MEXT, "Frontier Simulation Software for Industrial Science".
(Representative: Prof. KOSHIZUKA, Director: FUJISAWA Toshimitsu)

2004

Prometech Software, Inc. was established.
Aiming to integrate simulation and CG technologies.

2005

Concluded a joint test agreement with Japan Broadcasting Corporation (to verify the application of physical simulation technology to broadcast program production).

2006

Announced FLUIDSISTA, a simulation product for disaster prevention jointly developed with SGI Japan, Ltd., in Japan and the United State.

2007

NAMCO BANDAI Games, Inc. released arcade version of Tekken 6, featuring Prometech Software's OctaveEngine Nature physics engine.

2008

Hudson Soft Company, Limited released "AQUA FOREST Powered by OctaveEngine Casual" for iPhone, featuring Prometech Software's OctaveEngine Casual physics engine.
Cooperated in the movie "252: Seizonsha ari" using our proprietary fluid simulation technology. Provided simulation data of a huge storm surge surging into Odaiba and Shiodome.

2009

Spun off Game Division (Game Engine Development Business)
Released Particleworks: Particle method CAE Software

2010

Japan GPU Computing Limited Liability Partnership (G-DEP) was established.
G-DEP Received Tesla Preferred Partner 2.0 Certification from NVIDIA

2011

Particleworks won the 23rd "Small and Medium Enterprise Excellent New Technology/New Product Award" for the software category for its "Excellence Award",
Received the Tokyo Metropolitan Venture Technology Award for Excellence

2012

Particleworks was honored as "2012 Industrial Technology of the Nine Prefectures and Cities" at the 62nd Conference of the Nine Prefectures and Cities.

2014

Particleworks won 2013 Technology Award from the Japanese Society of Computational Engineering
Received Education Minister's Award at the University Venture Award 2014
(Organized by Japan Science and Technology Agency, supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)

2016

Established GDEP Solutions, Inc.

2017

Released Granuleworks: Discrete Element Method software code

2019

Established Prometech CG Research.
Established Particleworks Europe S.r.l. (Italy) .

2021

Took over Softech Corporation's PGI compiler products and HPC engineering operations.
NVIDIA HPC SDK and Open ACC user community "HPC WORLD" started operation.

2022

Launched NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise and Simulation Consulting.

2023

Transitioned to holding company structure through a corporate split and change of trade name to "Prometech Group, Inc".