The Hindu Business Line : Altair Engg upbeat on high-end computing tools

Altair Engineering, a technology solutions provider for engineering design, is upbeat on the potential for high performance computing (HPC) solutions in the areas of aerospace and defence, automotive and other design areas.

The Chief Technology Officer of PBS Grid Technologies, Altair, Dr Bill Nitzberg, said that the demand for grid-based HPC environment where clusters of Linux-based servers are located is undergoing changes calling for much faster design capability.

Associated with the Cray super computer and its applications with NASA, Dr Nitzberg said that the supercomputers have undergone significant changes in both design and are also now possessing more processing capabilities, thereby, facilitating faster design times, and improving productivity.

Dr Nitzberg told Business Line that Altair software enables these grid computers to connect and virtualise designs. This is managed in partnership with some of the leading software solutions providers.

Distributed workloads

The PBS Gridworks enables on-demand computing solutions in very demanding process intensive applications, such as reservoir modelling in oil and gas sector, life sciences and even in financial services.

The Altair professional services business simplifies the computing processes by distributing workloads across a cluster of computers, while helping these data-intensive applications to scale up rapidly.

Altair Engineering employs over 1,300 people globally hosting 16 offshore centres with 38 offices.

Their clients include NASA, Boeing, Ford, GM and Toyota. The company is now looking at the Indian market.

The company has already provided HPC solutions to the Mumbai-based Crest Communications, which is in the process of developing full length film and also partnering with the University of Hyderabad, for a centre in weather forecasting.

One of the challenges engineering designers face is their ability to use and analyse large data be it in reservoir modelling in the oil and gas sector or analysing car crash tests through simulations, he said.

What is significant is that with most of the Indian technology companies, oil and gas sector players and animation developers handling high-end design and analysis, they need HPC solutions where Altair is pitching, Dr Nitzberg said.

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