Altair's 2020 Data Analytics Summit

1. FEA Explicit Dynamic for Drop Impact Simulation Using Altair Radioss　 2. Multi parameter Sensitivity Analysis & Deterministic Design Optimization on A/C Outdoor Unit. 3. Uncertainty Quantification & Reliability Based Design Optimization 2D CFD Case Study

With faster computers comes new complexities that, if understood, can be mastered to yield significant application performance and cost improvements. In this breakout session, we will investigate how the Azure HBv3 offering, with increased memory bandwidth and L3 cache, can drastically reduce time to solution for AcuSolve at scale. We will cover some benchmarks and show how they perform on Azure at various scale points. This data will enable AcuSolve users to reduce time to solution so they can dedicate more time to improving their product.

Together with cloud providers and our other HPC partners, Intel is driving the performance and flexibility that are critical to running advanced HPC workloads in the cloud. We collaborate across our HPC ecosystem to help cloud providers offer accelerated, secure, and agile environments using our latest technologies, such as Intel® Xeon® processors. As cloud customers continue exploring new possibilities and applications for HPC, Intel is dedicated to facilitating their success. Intel works with HPC partners from various industries to enable forward-thinking cloud use cases such as bursting, AI, and advanced analytics. Learn how Intel collaborates with Public and Private Cloud Service Providers to optimize HPC workloads for fast, cost-effective execution on Intel-based Cloud Instances.

As Argonne National Laboratory prepares to support researchers tackling critical problems on its Polaris supercomputer and eventually its Exascale system, Aurora, William (Bill) Allcock, Manager, ALCF Advanced Integration Group, outlines the critical role of workload management in advancing what’s possible with HPC. He will share how his team’s initial exploration of open-source workload management technology led to their adoption of Altair’s commercial solution, PBS Professional, in 2021, and to a partnership between HPC experts at ANL and Altair that will shepherd workload management technology into the future of Exascale and beyond.​

Weather and climate centers worldwide rely on the power of high-performance computing (HPC) to track, analyze, simulate and predict the behavior of weather systems, climate patterns and other atmospheric phenomena. In this roundtable, experts from leading weather and climate centers across the globe will detail how they harness HPC to fuel this critically important research. Topics will include:​ - Advanced workload orchestration to optimize resource utilization and accelerate research timelines​ - Maintaining critical uptime: alerting, support and redundancy measures​ - Storage and I/O optimization to manage massive data volumes​ - Machine learning and artificial intelligence to accelerate simulation timelines and improve prediction

At this moment, Altair has the largest brain trust of HPC expertise in the world. Join the experts who have shepherded technology as original as PBS, Sun Grid Engine and Runtime Design Automation into today’s high stakes commercial HPC space. They’ll discuss the decades of advancement, development and acquisition that went into assembling the most comprehensive HPC optimization portfolio on the market, preparing us for an all new definition of “high performance computing.”​

The massive exploration of ideas through computational science and artificial intelligence is fueled by high-performance computing. In the cloud, on-premises, at the edge, and everywhere in between, explore the HPC technology maximizing HPC throughput and utilization for breakthrough results.

This presentation discusses the rise of intelligent design technologies used throughout industry to rapidly assess and optimize product performance before physical prototypes. The session includes a brief hands-on demonstration of some of the latest, easy-to-use simulation technologies that are empowering designers and design engineers around the world to capitalize on the digital design revolution. Speakers: Dr. Royston Jones, CTO, Altair Ken Welch, Senior VP Inspire Design and Manufacturing Products, Altair Duration: 20 minutes

This workshop demonstrates how a simulation-driven design approach to product development can have a drastic impact on the performance, design time, and profitability of a new product. Using a belt sander tool as a demonstration model, our presenters show how Altair’s design and simulation technologies can conduct a concept design analysis and optimization of the sander external housing to improve stiffness and reduce weight. They go on to show how we can simulate the manufacturing process itself by looking at filling, packing, cooling and warpage of the plastic housing; before concluding with a series of stress analysis and validation studies such as a virtual drop test, 3-point bending simulation and even a study of the effect of the heat transfer of the electric motor. This is a valuable session to see how simulation technologies can be used throughout the design process, adding value and reducing development time at each stage. Speakers: Ujwal Patnaik, Global Business Development Manager, Altair Chris Sambell, Application Engineer, Altair Duration: 60 minutes

On an international stage, confidence in your design is the bridge to success. Engineering principles have been cultivated to satisfy design requirements and help analyze more and more accurately. For Team Albatross, as analysis of aircraft design holds crucial, Altair strikes to be the first choice. This integrated system houses major products such as Simlab, SImSolid, and Hypermesh which have helped us introduce new design validation analyses for the team. With Altair, we achieved greater computational power even on the simplest of laptop configurations. Altair Hypermesh has allowed dealing with complex geometries that come with our design with utmost ease, giving precise results. Powerful products of Altair such as SimSolid help us perform a plethora of analyses in a short span of time and completely eliminate the barrier of computing limitations. Such unique analysis tools of Altair have enabled Team Albatross to secure ranks in the top 3 for the past 2 years on an international level, and this year, Team Albatross also stood 1st nationwide. Seeing this, it is certain that with what Altair has to offer, Team Albatross is more than ready to advance in technological standards and bring laurels this year too!

In an ADAS, high-performance CPUs are the central core for decision-making and other high-level system management. To enable various self-driving capabilities, highly powerful accelerators (DLA, GPUs etc) are used. In this talk, we will first focus on the various AI/ML-based ADAS tasks and the underlying hardware used to execute those tasks. The talk will also focus on the fault tolerance and robustness aspects of these systems. Finally, a brief discussion on how commercial software like Altair EMBED and KnowledgeStudio can be used in the domain.

In a world where everything is becoming more and more connected, Mabe, a leader in home appliances, is using product connectivity to fuel a digitization strategy that delivers consumers the best experience through their solutions and services. Learn how they are using big data, AI, and analytics to uncover insights, create new business opportunities, and inform product development. The presentation by Martin Ortega, Senior Design Engineer at Mabe, aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is a little over 17 minutes long. Learn what it takes to build a smart product – and where to begin. Download our free eGuide. View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Sustainable designs last longer. David Yáñez from Vortex Bladeless, a Spanish start-up, shares his vision of the technology, the strategies used for the integration of the different physical phenomena involved in the simulation-driven design, and the development of their resonating structures having minimal parts susceptible to wear by friction. The simulation results from CFD, with fluid-structure interaction, and electromagnetic field simulation are compared with experimental wind tunnel results and from in-service environments.

Special-purpose machine design needs quick and flexible responses to individual customer requirements while maintaining a tight focus on quality and safety requirements. With limited time and personnel, the traditional FEM could not provide sufficient confidence for design decisions. Hear how ATNA Industry Solutions has turned simulation into a design tool. Speakers: Thomas Müller, Co-Founder, Commercial Manager, ATNA Industrial Solutions Hagen Möller, Design Engineer, ATNA Industrial Solutions Duration: 12 minutes

AI-powered real-time melt-pool analytics for accelerated product development and production.

Serba Dinamik turbines power all critical systems on oil rigs, including safety systems and pumps. The equipment must be consistently reliable with no unplanned downtime. Traditional preventative maintenance schedules are time-consuming and resource-intensive. Learn how they developed a predictive maintenance system, to take preventative action only when needed.

The ever-advancing digitization is being driven by the convergence of simulation, data, and HPC. While virtual methods, interoperable tools, and standardized interfaces become state of the art, the engineers and their management will play a significant role to break down silos and benefit from a Digital Thread. In this fireside chat, we will discuss the importance of people to unleash the potential of Digital Twins, how they can combine the different fields of product development and what is still missing to make the connection.

The Digital Twin concept is broadly applicable to all Altair customer base wanting to develop better products faster. We will explain how to maximize the value you can get from the Altair Platform for Digital Twins. We will illustrate how this solution helps diverse engineering teams develop better, more complex products faster by avoiding work in silos. This will include proven uses cases for the convergence of simulation and data.

As the demand for understanding part performance increases, design engineers are being asked to understand stresses and displacements early in the design cycle. Traditionally, when designing larger complex systems, the design process is linear, with CAE validation done after the design is complete. SimSolid’s revolutionary technology allows engineers to test multiple designs and what-if scenarios with a low learning curve while enabling a quicker, more integrated product development process.

Inspire’s new parametric modeling allows you to capture the evolution of your model’s shape by showing the linear sequence in which the geometry was created. You can roll the model backward or forward, as well as group, delete, insert, suppress, or edit entities in the History Browser. Inspire also features a new and improved sketching interface and several new sketching tools. See how you can use these new tools to seamlessly add, remove, and parameterize features in your model and then use the Variables table to quickly make design updates and see how they affect performance is in seconds to minutes.

The costs of unscheduled downtime in manufacturing environments can be detrimental to operations. Altair makes it easy to monitor equipment health in real-time and predict failures. See how you can gain the insights your organization needs to avoid machine failures and unplanned downtime, increase equipment utilization and production line productivity, and reduce maintenance costs.

Today’s most competitive engineering, research, and design teams can access their software, their data, and importantly, powerful HPC resources, from anywhere in the world. From launching software on any device to accelerating jobs with on-demand solving power and seamlessly visualizing, sharing, and managing data with their team, in this session attendees will follow a “day in the life” of the modern engineer, with a special look at how HPC and cloud technology make it possible to scale exploration exponentially without increasing the hours spent at engineering desks.

In this session, cloud expert Rick Watkins presents three actionable HPC and cloud models designed to optimize innovation potential and longtime ROI, whether your team is small and nimble or maintains its own large compute infrastructure. Engineers interested in boosting performance with HPC will come away with an understanding of what HPC and cloud model could be right for them – as well as a high-level appreciation for the critical role that IT infrastructure optimization plays in maintaining your team’s competitive edge, and all the complexity involved in making appear simple.

In this panel, participants including Dr. Gerardo Olivares of the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) and David Griffith of Robotic Process Automation software provider, AmdoSoft, will be joined by Altair’s own SVP - Strategic Relationships, Piush Patel, to discuss the benefits and complexities of navigating the complex HPC and cloud landscape. If you are a software user looking to accelerate productivity or vendor eager to understand how cloud delivery models can benefit your customers and bottom line, this panel will provide a practical look at the complex cloud landscape from the perspective of software stakeholders and advice from experts on how to embrace it.

Altair products are quickly evolving into AI-driven products. Starting from the modeling and visualization products, the latest release of Altair HyperWorks includes features like shapeAI, which quickly finds and classifies parts “by shape” inside geometry files or finite element meshes - when you want to locate all of the bolts, shafts, and gears in a complex assembly - by applying machine learning.

At Altair, we see a future where seemingly disparate systems work seamlessly together to help businesses succeed. Where pin-point accuracy and speed mean the difference between winning and losing. The world of data science is intersecting with high-performance cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and IoT, unlocking limitless potential and enabling enterprises of all sizes to compete on a global scale while creating a more sustainable future.

Safety and reliability are paramount objectives of the aero-engine development work. Comprehensive dynamic simulation and testing ensure safe and reliable products. However, new design architectures with increasing demand for power density need to be developed in even shorter time scales. Robust structural dynamics are one key objective that needs to be addressed very early in the concept design. Today’s analysis tools need to make accurate dynamic predictions at the system level which takes a long time due to very large design iterations and robustness assessments. An approach to resolve this dilemma by combining Altair SimSolid with frequency-based coupling and data science thinking is presented. The presentation by Carsten Buchholz, Project Engineer for Hybrid Electric Flight Demonstrator at Rolls-Royce, aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is almost 13 minutes long. Ready to see how your company can drive innovation with AI-powered design? Contact our solutions experts today. View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Using Altair Panopticon in conjunction with Kx kdb+, HSBC is able to analyze client flow globally, across their businesses and regions, and down to the market and stock level. Vega Murden, HSBC's Team Lead, MSS Equities Cash & Electronic IT, will discuss how this enables the bank's traders to have more meaningful client interactions and identify and measure improvements in their product offerings. With this combination of technologies, they are able to offer this information to their front office teams in real-time and with granular historic data to support trend analysis and data investigations. The presentation aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is a little over 12 minutes long. Explore how you can gain real-time visibility into market activity with Altair Panopticon™. View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

One of the challenges for CIOs and CFOs in managing IT spend is to get accurate data that can help to optimize spend. At Altair, we understand the need and we want to be your partner every step of the way. Learn how we delivered a most comprehensive data analytics solution for the IT finance team at Aptiv that helped to reduce operational time and automate the process of calculating the global IT spend accurately for managerial reporting. The presentation by Ripan Barot, Director of Professional Services and Customer Support at Altair, aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is over 22 minutes long. See how Altair's predictive analytics solutions support calculating accurate IT spend. Contact us. View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Explore how mortgage lending, operations, and servicing groups leverage data analytics solutions to automate processes, apply predictive and prescriptive analytics, and monitor assets visually. Join us to see demonstrations on data extraction, content management, predicting credit defaults, and visual analytics. The presentation, by Senior Solutions Specialist Alyson Kelley, and Subject Matter Expert Joe Lovati from Altair, aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is almost 44 minutes long. Ready to explore predictive analytics and process automation? Contact us! View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

With the increasing adoption of telehealth and retailers expanding into healthcare delivery, patient demands for access and convenience continue to grow. Many organizations still rely on spreadsheets for key reporting and data management functions, but the manual processes required to manage healthcare data using spreadsheets are cumbersome and prone to error. Turning data into insight quickly is no longer optional and healthcare providers must respond with more efficient data handling workflows. In this session, we will explain how healthcare organizations can optimize their operations, improve patient experience, and reduce their costs using Monarch and advanced data transformation software in conjunction with spreadsheets. The presentation by Solutions Specialist John Strazdins, and Director of Healthcare Vertical at Altair Paige Jankowski, aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is over 28 minutes long. Explore Altair Data Analytics for Healthcare View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Data scientists and business analysts across the retail industry use Altair to generate actionable insight from their data. In this session, we will explore how easy-to-use machine learning and predictive analytics tools empower you to rapidly analyze data and quickly produce explainable results - without requiring a single line of code. The presentation by Solutions Specialist Jack Lynch, and Director of State, Local & Education Vertical at Altair Mark Burns, aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is over 21 minutes long. View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Now more than ever, professional traders need access to data visualization tools that enable them to make strategic decisions quickly and easily. Learn how FlexTrade System’s visualization suite is utilizing Panopticon for enhanced data visualization of trading data. Deep dive into the industry issue FlexTrade needed to solve, the solution, and how the results delivered value. This presentation by Paul Clarke, SVP Global Strategy, FlexTrade, aired at Future.AI in June 2021 and is about 15 minutes long. View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) supports and advances this research in the geosciences with the world-class HPC and high-performance storage.  For workload management and resource scheduling, NCAR uses Altair PBS Professional to exploit features like cloud bursting, fairshare, power-user and maintenance reservations, resource assignment with control groups, high-throughput hierarchical scheduling, green provisioning, and energy-aware scheduling. This presentation by Irfan Elahi, Brian Vanderwende, and John Blaas from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) was aired during the 2021 Altair HPC Summit, and is about 29 minutes long. View all HPC Summit 2021 Presentations

Several OEMs currently face the challenge of information silos due to poor integration of models across the product life cycle. Furthermore, there is limited reuse of models between programs and the variation of modeling maturity across various Engineering disciplines results in lack of traceability. In this short presentation, we will look at solutions and workflows that leverages a systems model as a common language of communication while facilitating various types of real time dashboards and visualization to help understand and optimize the entire Mechatronic system performance.

Presented at the ATCx Heavy Equipment in May 2021.

Speaker: Keshav Sundaresh, Global Director – Smart Systems & Mechatronics, Altair

Duration: 20 minutes

Anthony Mc Loughlin VP Sales Data Analytics, EMEA presents how to empower engineering to make data & AI work.

Marco Fliesser Technical Director Data Analytics EMEA presents "The Value of Data Analytics in the Smart Factory ".

Altair CTO James Dagg presents an overview of the journey Altair took to develop the leading modeling and visualization technologies we have today, and provides a look at what’s coming next to help you reduce your product delivery time. James Dagg has been at Altair for more than 30 years and is a visionary behind Altair’s software strategy and development activities. He has also led the development of Altair’s concept design technologies and oversaw the development of Altair’s CAE software suite for more than a decade.

Ross Atherton is a Structural Systems Design Engineer in the Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace Future Programmes Engineering department. After a period of supporting Rolls-Royce’s growing large engine fleet, Ross turned to future products; and has since led a small team designing, assessing, and enhancing the conceptual product architecture of future market opportunities. Ross’ presentation will go into detail on how Rolls-Royce have deployed the Altair Hyperworks toolset to enhance the structural efficiency of their UltraFan engine, covering: rapid model and mesh creation; new insights from structural optimisation and robust design; integrated post-processing; and the resulting acceleration of the engineering design iteration cycle.

By performing structural analyses on fully featured CAD assemblies within minutes, SimSolid is the game-changing simulation technology for designers, engineers, and analysts. It eliminates geometry preparation and meshing: the two most time-consuming, expertise-extensive, and error-prone tasks performed in a conventional structural simulation. Early-stage assessment of complex assemblies can be particularly challenging for CAD-based simulation tools and FEA alike, but SimSolid is tolerant of imprecise geometry, meaning no simplification of complex geometries is needed before analyzing designs. Multiple design scenarios can be simulated quickly under real-life conditions, providing the simulation power to help accelerate engineering decisions, aid development of quality products, and beat competitors to market. Tony Jones, Chief Engineer at Andron Handling, demonstrates the use of SimSolid in the design development of its bespoke mechanical equipment. Seeking to assess the strength of the welded fabrication and vertical clamping arms for both lifting and clamping loads, Andron Handling utilized SimSolid to model the entire assembly of their bespoke handler design. They were able to include details such as sliding connections, clamping force on the pistons, and matching reactions on the cylinder bodies to ensure accuracy, and complete their simulation run in less than a minute, allowing multiple design iterations to be explored.