Latest Altair Engineering Stories
TROY, Mich., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair, a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, was presented with a Gold Stevie® Award as Company of the Year in Computer Software at the 10(th) Annual American Business Awards Sept. 17. The American Business Awards are the nation's premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and...
TROY, Mich., Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair, developer of the innovative HyperWorks computer-aided engineering software suite, announced today the addition of MultiMech's software suite of composite tools to the growing array of applications available through the HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA). The MultiMech Suite allows users from many industries to analyze and optimize materials using its unique two-way coupled multiscale approach developed in response to the ever...
TROY, Mich., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair ProductDesign today announced that it is partnering with Edison2 to assist in the design of the new Very Light Car 4.0 (VLC 4.0), the next generation version of the innovative, light weight, fuel efficient vehicle entered in the Progressive Automotive XPRIZE in 2010. The original Edison2 vehicle, operating with a one-cylinder internal combustion engine, won the $5 million prize for the Mainstream Class. The VLC 4.0 is an...
TROY, Mich., Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair, developer of the popular HyperWorks computer-aided engineering software suite, announced today the addition of TES International's software ElectroFlo for thermal analysis to the array of applications available through the HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA). ElectroFlo is an electronics cooling package designed for high power-density applications. It is used for the thermal analysis of electrical components and systems....
TROY, Mich., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair, a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, announced today that its HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) platform is being used to structurally design the LMP2 LOTUS T128 racing car for the Le Mans Prototype series. The technical development of the car is carried out by Advanced Design & Engineering Systems Solutions AG (ADESS), a design and engineering office based in Munich with expert...
TROY, Mich., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair, a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, is featuring another of its leading HyperWorks simulation solutions, RADIOSS(TM), accelerated by NVIDIA professional graphics processing units (GPUs), at SIGGRAPH 2012, this week in Los Angeles. RADIOSS is the premier next-generation finite element structural solver for linear and non-linear simulations. It is widely used in the automotive and aerospace...
TROY, Mich., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Engineers will have the opportunity to learn and collaborate with America's best minds in supercomputing development at the first PBS Works User Group Conference October 2-3, 2012, at the Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif. High-performance computing (HPC) experts from industries including government, life science and manufacturing, will speak at the event, organized by the PBS Works division of Altair, a leading global provider of simulation...
TROY, Mich., July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., announced today that its HyperWorks CAE platform has been used by [AB]structures, an Italian structural design and engineering company, to structurally design and optimize the winning yacht in the Volvo Ocean Race, Groupama 4. The yacht, skippered by Franck Cammas, claimed victory in the Volvo Ocean Race on July 9 in Galway, Ireland, after nine months and more than 37,000 nautical miles sailed around the world...
TROY, Mich., July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- solidThinking, Inc. today announced the release of solidThinking Evolve(TM) 9.0, a new version of its concept-design and 3D modeling software. solidThinking Evolve 9.0 features a simplified user interface and workflow, improved comprehensive modeling interaction, interactive photorealistic rendering and additional format and language support. The successor to solidThinking 8.5, solidThinking Evolve 9.0 offers a hybrid modeling system that...
TROY, Mich., June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., today announced the availability of an automated multilevel substructuring eigenvalue solver (AMSES) that dramatically cuts the time required to compute eigenvalues for analysis in noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) simulations. AMSES has been released as an update to HyperWorks 11.0, Altair's suite of computer-aided engineering software tools, and is part of the RADIOSS finite-element solver. It is an especially...
