Altair S-CALC

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Altair S-CALC is an advanced section property calculator designed to enhance productivity and design accuracy for engineers working with non-standard sections featuring complex geometries and multiple materials. The software computes over sixteen section properties, offering various calculation methods such as database values, closed-form solutions, and Finite Element Analysis (FEA methods. Users can define models using S-CALC's intuitive graphical editor or import geometry and material data from BIM and DXF files. The tool supports the creation of multi-material sections, allowing calculations based on a chosen reference material, with default options including steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and iron. S-CALC also provides a comprehensive library of over 70 parametric shapes, including built-up, cold-formed, bridge, and more, enabling users to easily define and modify sections to meet specific design requirements. Key Features and Functionality: - Computation of Section Properties: Calculates over sixteen section properties about the centroid or any reference axis. - Multiple Calculation Methods: Offers database values, closed-form solutions, proprietary polygon algorithms, and FEA methods for property calculations. - Graphical Editor and Import Capabilities: Allows easy model definition through a graphical editor and supports importing geometry and material data from BIM and DXF files. - Multi-Material Section Support: Enables the creation of sections with multiple materials, using default materials like steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and iron, or customized values. - Extensive Parametric Shape Library: Provides a library of over 70 parametric shapes, including standard, hollow, cold-formed, reinforced concrete, bridge, rail, and user-defined polygons. Primary Value and User Solutions: S-CALC addresses the challenges engineers face when working with complex, non-standard sections by providing accurate and efficient calculations of section properties. Its versatility in handling multiple materials and complex geometries, combined with various calculation methods, ensures precise results. The intuitive graphical editor and extensive shape library streamline the design process, reducing manual effort and potential errors. By integrating seamlessly with other design and analysis tools, S-CALC enhances workflow efficiency, allowing engineers to focus on optimizing designs and ensuring structural integrity.

Altair Accelerator

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Altair Accelerator is a high-throughput, enterprise-grade job scheduler designed to meet the complex demands of semiconductor and electronic design automation and high-performance computing . It efficiently manages compute infrastructures ranging from small, dedicated server farms to complex, distributed HPC and cluster environments. With its scalable, event-driven architecture and sub-millisecond dispatch latency, Accelerator maximizes design throughput and capacity utilization, making it an ideal solution for organizations seeking to optimize their computational resources. Key Features and Functionality: - High Throughput: Capable of running millions of jobs per day, ensuring rapid processing and efficient resource utilization. - Comprehensive Policy Management: Includes features like FairShare and preemption, allowing for effective control and optimization of workload environments. - Job Prioritization: Supports job preemption and reservations, enabling urgent tasks to take precedence without disrupting ongoing processes. - Rapid Scaling: Optimized for cloud workloads, it dynamically scales resources based on demand, reducing costs by adjusting cloud resources to exact needs. - Enhanced Visibility and Productivity: Provides visualization and failure identification tools, offering a clear overview of job statuses and resource allocation. - Accelerator Plus: Offers multi-layer, event-driven job scheduling with a hierarchical structure and a full-featured GUI for comprehensive management. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Altair Accelerator addresses the critical need for efficient job scheduling in high-demand computing environments. By delivering sub-millisecond latency and the capacity to handle millions of jobs daily, it significantly enhances design throughput and resource utilization. Its comprehensive policy management and job prioritization features ensure that urgent tasks are addressed promptly without compromising ongoing operations. Additionally, its rapid scaling capabilities in cloud environments allow organizations to manage costs effectively by aligning resource usage with actual demand. Overall, Accelerator empowers organizations to streamline their computational workflows, reduce time-to-market, and optimize the use of expensive EDA licenses and hardware resources.

Altair S-CONCRETE

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Altair S-CONCRETE is a comprehensive software solution designed to streamline the design and detailing of reinforced concrete structures, including beams, columns, walls, and continuous beams. It accelerates project workflows by providing immediate results within an intuitive interface, ensuring designs adhere to regional codes. The software performs extensive code checks, addressing axial, shear, moment loads, and torsion, delivering transparent design reports that encompass utilization status, governing load cases, detailing checks, intermediate results, and clause-referenced errors and warnings. This clarity empowers engineers to optimize reinforced concrete structures confidently. Key Features and Functionality: - Comprehensive Design Capabilities: Design and detail reinforced concrete beams, columns, walls, and continuous beams. - Extensive Code Compliance: Perform thorough code checks for axial, shear, moment loads, and torsion to ensure adherence to regional design codes. - Transparent Reporting: Generate detailed design reports that include utilization status, governing load cases, detailing checks, intermediate results, and clause-referenced errors and warnings. - User-Friendly Interface: Utilize an intuitive environment that allows for quick specification of section dimensions, material properties, reinforcement bar types, units, and design codes. - Efficient Workflow Integration: Seamlessly integrate with various analysis solutions, enabling the import and simultaneous design of all concrete structural elements from third-party analysis models. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Altair S-CONCRETE significantly reduces design time while ensuring code compliance, providing engineers with confidence in their structural designs. By automating complex calculations and offering immediate feedback, it minimizes manual errors and enhances productivity. The software's transparent reporting and comprehensive code checks address the critical need for accuracy and efficiency in reinforced concrete design, making it an invaluable tool for structural engineers aiming to optimize their workflows and deliver safe, compliant structures.

Altair e-Motor Director

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Altair e-Motor Director is a comprehensive solution designed to accelerate the development of electric powertrains by integrating simulation-driven and data-driven design methodologies. It enables engineers to efficiently create, manage, and store multi-domain analyses and design of experiments data, facilitating the optimization of motor designs that meet performance, cost, and sustainability objectives. Built upon the Altair® Pulse™ workflow orchestration environment, e-Motor Director democratizes expert knowledge, allowing users to evaluate, compare, and optimize motor concepts within a single, automated workflow. Key Features and Functionality: - Multi-Attribute Collaboration: Integrates multiple physics and load cases, including electromagnetics, structural integrity, and thermal management, for comprehensive design studies. - Optimization of Motor Families: Employs efficient optimization techniques to identify the optimal balance between cost, performance, sustainability, and efficiency for individual motors or complete motor families. - Design of Experiments : Supports DOE studies to explore a wide design space and generate design information for in-depth analysis. - Process Automation and Democratization: Built on the Altair Pulse platform, e-Motor Director allows users to automate workflows and share best-practice solutions across teams. - Inverter-Motor Interaction: Accounts for the interaction between the e-motor and inverter, optimizing performance by integrating input currents and control signals in one automated workflow. - Global Process Integration: Offers customizable solutions to meet client-specific requirements and seamlessly integrate with existing e-motor design processes. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Altair e-Motor Director addresses the challenges of developing innovative electric powertrains within tight cost constraints and competitive time-to-market pressures. By combining simulation- and data-driven design approaches, it enables engineers to navigate conflicting constraints from multiple physics domains, accelerating the development of cutting-edge e-powertrains. The platform's ability to create, manage, and store multi-domain analyses and DOE data streamlines the optimization process, leading to efficient, reliable, and cost-effective motor designs. Additionally, its integration within the Altair Pulse environment democratizes expert knowledge, allowing for flexible evaluation and optimization of motor concepts, ultimately saving time and engineering costs.

Altair Inspire Studio

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Altair Inspire Studio is an all-in-one industrial design solution tailored for designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate, and visualize designs with unparalleled speed and precision. Its unique construction history feature, combined with multiple modeling techniques, empowers users throughout the creative process. The software offers a sleek and efficient user experience, accommodating both expert and novice users. From initial sketches to exploring styling with polygonal, freeform, and PolyNURBS parametric modeling, each tool and workflow are optimized for an efficient design experience. Additionally, Inspire Studio includes a high-quality, physically-based global illumination renderer, Thea Render, enabling the production of stunning product presentations in real-time. Compatible with both Mac OS X and Windows, and operating under Altair’s flexible token-based licensing model, Inspire Studio liberates designers from the constraints of traditional CAID tools while ensuring the export of robust digital models for product development. Key Features and Functionality: - Construction History: Automatically backtrack to earlier stages of your design, reusing or modifying objects from past stages in real-time. - Sketching: Create and edit constraint-based technical sketches by easily applying geometric relationships between components. - Surfaces and Curves: Utilize Non-uniform Rational B-Splines curves and surfaces to accurately represent even the most complex shapes with flexibility and precision. - PolyNURBS: Combine the ease and simplicity of polygonal modeling with the precision and flexibility of NURBS to quickly create free-form surface and solid geometry that is smooth and continuous. - Rendering and Animations: Create high-quality rendered images and animations with a physically-based global illumination engine in biased photorealistic, unbiased, and Presto interactive modes. - Tool Belts: One-click access to all modeling and rendering tools brings any functionality directly to you. Customize tool belts to meet your needs. - Manufacturing Drawings: Create detailed 2D drawings of complex 3D models and assemblies from multiple perspectives, including section and detail views, dimensions, and annotations. - Design Tables: Explore and evaluate design alternatives on the fly by modifying and setting thresholds for various model parameters without digging through construction history. - Geometry Morphing: Easily edit complex geometries interactively, either at the global part level or by applying local modifications to the model. Primary Value and User Solutions: Inspire Studio enhances creativity by allowing designers to drive their designs with its powerful construction history tool and intuitive user interface, enabling quick creation, exploration of multiple iterations, and changes without rework. It offers flexibility by allowing users to mix and match modeling techniques within the same environment, combining fast, free-form polygonal modeling with the control and precision of surface and solid modeling to effortlessly create and explore even the most challenging designs. The software also provides an intuitive setup and a large choice of environments and materials, enabling the creation of stunning images and complex animations in real-time with physically accurate lighting.

Altair S-FOUNDATION

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Altair® S-FOUNDATION™ is a comprehensive software solution designed for the analysis and design of both deep and shallow foundations. Its adaptable and intuitive interface allows users to create virtually any foundation layout, automatically managing the underlying finite element model throughout the design and optimization process. The software supports both linear and nonlinear analyses, ensuring compliance with geotechnical and structural design codes. Key Features and Functionality: - Versatile Modeling Capabilities: S-FOUNDATION enables the modeling of various foundation types, including isolated footings, combined footings, continuous footings, wall footings, strap footings, and mat foundations. These can incorporate elements such as pedestals, walls, piles, steps, holes, and areas of varying thickness. - Automated Finite Element Mesh Generation: The software automatically generates and maintains the finite element mesh, with adjustable constraints, facilitating efficient and accurate analysis. - Comprehensive Code Compliance Checks: Users can perform detailed code compliance checks, reviewing intermediate calculations, formulas, and specific code clauses. Results can be filtered based on multiple criteria to identify areas of interest, and comprehensive, customizable reports can be generated. - Integrated Workflow with Superstructure Analysis: S-FOUNDATION offers direct data transfer links for importing analyzed models from Altair® S-FRAME® and Altair® S-TIMBER™, streamlining the integration between superstructure and substructure designs. - Customization and Automation: The software supports Python scripting, allowing users to automate analysis and code check operations, or add new functionalities. Custom workflows can be recorded, modified, and saved as custom S-FOUNDATION Wizards, which can be shared and reused across an organization. Primary Value and User Solutions: S-FOUNDATION addresses the complexities of foundation design by providing a flexible and automated platform that enhances productivity and accuracy. Its ability to handle diverse foundation layouts and integrate seamlessly with superstructure analysis tools reduces manual effort and potential errors. The software's comprehensive code compliance checks and customizable reporting ensure that designs meet regulatory standards, providing engineers with confidence in their foundation solutions. By automating repetitive processes and offering extensive customization options, S-FOUNDATION empowers users to tailor the software to their specific project requirements, ultimately leading to more efficient and reliable foundation designs.

Altair Twin Activate

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Altair® Twin Activate™ is an open and flexible integration solution that enables comprehensive system simulation and real-time digital twin deployment throughout the product lifecycle. Its intuitive block-diagram modeling environment allows teams to model complex systems and systems-of-systems, facilitating the testing and prediction of system performance under various conditions. By converging multidisciplinary, multiphysics simulation with advanced artificial intelligence (AI, data analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC technologies, Twin Activate empowers organizations to unlock deeper insights, accelerate innovation, and enhance engineering decisions. Key Features and Functionality: - 1D System Simulation: Enables rapid performance assessment of complete products by simulating at the system level, allowing for early design exploration and deeper performance insights. - Block Diagrams and Control System Design: Provides an intuitive modeling environment for developing smart systems involving sensors, actuators, feedback mechanisms, and built-in logic. - Mixed Signal-Based and Physical Modeling: Leverages pre-defined Modelica libraries to model common mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and thermal components within the same diagram. - Code Generation: Compiles models into executable code for various applications, including block customization, exporting to other simulation environments, and deployment on specific targets like Arduino. - Seamless Integration with Other Altair Tools: Facilitates true multidisciplinary system simulation through co-simulation with tools such as Altair® MotionSolve® for multibody dynamics, Altair® Flux® for motor performance, and Altair® PSIM™ for power converter and motor drive simulation. - Support for Functional Mock-Up Interface (FMI: Enables model exchange or co-simulation connections with all tools that support the FMI standard, promoting interoperability and collaboration. Primary Value and User Solutions: Altair Twin Activate addresses the growing demand for smarter, more connected, and sustainable products by providing a holistic assessment of entire product systems and their interactions. It allows organizations to connect reduced-order models to physical assets, leveraging live data streams and simulated data to test models through various scenarios. This approach informs design decisions from the concept stage, unlocking limitless insights, accelerating innovation, and improving engineering decisions throughout all phases of development. By offering an open and flexible integration platform, Twin Activate ensures seamless connectivity and interoperability between multidisciplinary systems, supporting native Modelica, Spice, Python, OpenMatrix (OML, and C languages, as well as open protocols like MQTT.

Altair S-FRAME

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Altair® S-FRAME® is a comprehensive structural analysis and design software that enables engineers to model, analyze, and design structures of varying complexity, material types, and loading conditions. It supports a wide range of analyses, including linear static, dynamic, and nonlinear assessments, ensuring compliance with diverse design codes. S-FRAME integrates seamlessly with Building Information Modeling tools and offers advanced meshing capabilities, facilitating efficient model creation and detailed analysis. Its suite includes integrated concrete and steel design tools, enhancing productivity through design optimization, code compliance verification, and comprehensive report generation. Key Features and Functionality: - Modeling Automation: Quickly define structures using automated framework generators, create standard or custom trusses, and replicate model components with clone tools. - BIM and DXF Integration: Import existing models from BIM and DXF formats to streamline the modeling process. - Advanced Meshing Tools: Generate finite element meshes for detailed analysis, with the ability to convert members to multi-shell models for in-depth examination. - Comprehensive Analysis Types: Perform various analyses, including linear static, dynamic , nonlinear-static, quasi-static, and more. - Finite Element Library: Access a wide range of finite element types to accurately model structural components like trusses, cables, beams, membranes, plates, shells, and solids. - Integrated Design Tools: Utilize S-STEEL for steel member design and optimization, and S-CONCRETE for concrete beams, columns, and walls, ensuring code compliance and efficient design processes. - Interoperability: Seamlessly export models and reactions to S-TIMBER for timber design and S-FOUNDATION for foundation analysis and design. - BIM Data Links: Transfer model data using bidirectional links with Revit® and TEKLA® Structures, and import DXF layers with pre-assigned properties for efficient model creation. - Collaboration Tools: Use S-VIEW for model validation and visualization, enabling easy sharing and presentation of design models. Primary Value and User Solutions: S-FRAME addresses the complex needs of structural engineers by providing a versatile platform capable of handling diverse structural designs and analyses. Its integration with BIM tools and automated features significantly reduce modeling time, enhancing productivity. The software's comprehensive analysis capabilities ensure accurate assessment of structural behavior under various conditions, aiding in the optimization of designs for safety and efficiency. By supporting multiple design codes and offering integrated design tools for different materials, S-FRAME ensures compliance with regional standards, facilitating the creation of reliable and code-compliant structures.

Altair Mistral

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Altair Mistral™ is a leading application monitoring tool designed for high-performance computing and scientific computing environments. It offers live system telemetry and I/O monitoring, enabling users to efficiently track system performance, detect storage bottlenecks, and optimize both on-premises and hybrid cloud infrastructures. Lightweight enough for production use, Mistral provides detailed per-job metrics, allowing for precise identification and resolution of performance issues. Key Features and Functionality: - Per-job Metrics: Collects detailed data on CPU, memory, metadata, and I/O for each job, user, and host, facilitating quick identification of problematic applications and understanding of storage usage patterns. - Storage Protection: Detects rogue jobs and inefficient I/O patterns, such as excessive metadata operations and small read/write actions, enabling swift elimination of performance-degrading applications. - Insight into Storage Requirements: Monitors immediate application I/O needs and tracks long-term trends, aiding in informed purchasing decisions and future resource planning. - Storage- and Scheduler-Agnostic: Integrates seamlessly with various orchestration frameworks, providing consistent, storage-agnostic metrics across different jobs and workflows. - Optimization for Hybrid Cloud: Delivers the necessary telemetry to maximize on-premises investments and effectively manage hybrid cloud environments, ensuring agility and cost control. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Altair Mistral addresses the complexities of monitoring distributed systems and compute clusters by offering detailed, per-job insights into system performance. By identifying and resolving issues like rogue jobs and storage bottlenecks, Mistral enhances operational efficiency, ensures optimal resource utilization, and supports proactive infrastructure management. Its lightweight design and flexibility make it an essential tool for organizations aiming to maintain high-performance computing environments and effectively manage hybrid cloud strategies.