Fireside Chat: AI and Digital Transformation: Paving a Path to Better Business Outcomes

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

The importance of light weight frames in automobiles is well known but becomes even more important in electric vehicles for direct gain it brings in range. Topology Optimization followed by Size/Gauge optimization very early in product life cycle serves as an effective method to determine the optimal material distribution path and tube sizing at the initial design phase itself so that the frame can be designed at an optimal level before heading to validation phase. It is usual practice to perform size optimization with 1D beam model. However, stresses due to geometric complexities including welds, and joints are not accurately predicted with the beam model and hence the optimization results are in a crude state. The method explored in this study explores using high fidelity durability model to perform size optimization which will increase the accuracy of the results.

Usage of SIMSOLID for Rapid Product Development at Ather - Presented ATC 2019

Vibro-acoustic study of a transmission system with coupling between Flux and OptiStruct

There are few fields in the world as competitive as semiconductor design exploration and verification. Teams might run tens of millions of compute jobs in a single day on their quest to bring new chips to market first, requiring vast quantities of compute and increasingly, cloud and emulator resources, as well as expensive EDA licenses, and the all-important resource, time. In this roundtable, experts will discuss the license-, job-, compute- and host-based metrics that the world’s leading semiconductor companies measure and tune for, highlighting the optimization strategies that edge out the competition and drive up profitability.

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.

Keeping pace with the growth of tools and technologies for the digital world is daunting yet crucial to success of the innovator. The future of high-performance computing, though, is trending to be more heterogenous, federated, and complex. AMD makes great silicon products and partners with great software makers like Altair, but more is needed to help users navigate the expanding space of solutions. Hear Kumaran Siva, Corporate Vice President, Software & Systems Business Development, at AMD, provide why the technology partnerships must extend all the way to the innovators themselves.

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.​

The importance of accelerating research timelines in life sciences has been front and center amid COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s made possible by high-performance computing. In this roundtable, HPC experts will discuss how they provide scientists with cost-effective compute at the scale required to support life sciences workloads, minimizing disruption to end users while managing some of the world’s most critical datasets in the cloud. Topics will include:​ - HPC for accelerating pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare consumer goods workloads​ - Kubernetes and containers and their impact on life sciences workflows​ - Application support including integration with NextFlow, SnakeMake, Singularity and more​ - Navigating the cloud landscape: cost optimization, security, support ​ - Workload optimization including for migration: job level I/O monitoring for maximum efficiency and utilization, dependency analysis for heterogeneous cluster automation​

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.”​

HPC and cloud accessibility make it possible to scale exploration exponentially, but the key to breakthrough results is ensuring time spent interfacing with IT doesn’t scale accordingly. In this breakout session just for simulation application end users, attendees will see how the most competitive teams access their software, their data, and powerful HPC resources to turbocharge productivity from anywhere in the world. From launching software on any device and accelerating jobs with on-demand solving power to seamlessly visualizing, sharing, and managing data with their team, don’t miss these demos of how the modern engineering workflow incorporates the acceleration benefits of HPC and cloud – with none of the added complexity.​

Beyond empowering your team with flexible compute resources to scale productivity, cloud bursting technology provides running and automation opportunities that make real impact on the metrics that matter most to your organization. Join this breakout session for HPC stakeholders to see how to manage, optimize and forecast compute resources, bursting to and between your on-prem resources and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). “It just works” may be the magic words for end users, but in this session we’ll explore all that goes into serving up the right compute resources for every workload.

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.

As the leading provider of workload management and compute optimization technology for three decades, Altair has helped enterprise computing customers at the cutting edge of HPC move critical workloads to the cloud. Now, we’re helping thousands of simulation software end users enticed by the promise of increasing exploration potential with “infinite” scalability do the same. Whether you’re an HPC expert looking for tools to tune and optimize or an end user looking to boost productivity without IT complexity, join cloud expert Rick Watkins for a discussion on the many ways to get to “cloud,” and how to know which model will get you breakthrough results.

The next big technology trends that will be driven by supercomputing.​

Three major trends have emerged over the last decade and continue to dominate the conversation in HPC: the race to Exascale, the rise of AI, and the emergence of Cloud. We will discuss how these trends are individually and collectively shaping the future of HPC, from the technologies we use to how we use them, along with how they are giving rise to new opportunities and challenges for providers and users of HPC.​

High Performance Computing on Google Cloud

Squeak and rattle in the automotive industry term for the audible engineering challenges faced by all vehicle and component engineers. Minimizing Squeak and rattle is of paramount importance when designing vehicle components and whole vehicle assemblies.

Featuring Gareth Knopp, Innovation and Simulation Manager at Bucher Municipal, this presentation explains why Bucher Municipal have invested in on-premises hardware to exploit the full potential of simulation for the design of their truck mounted sweepers. Gareth describes the simulation environment inside the company, explains why more compute power was needed, and why they opted for physical hardware with the Altair Unlimited Physical Appliance over cloud compute. Speaker: Gareth Knopp, Innovation and Simulation Manager - Truck Mounted Sweepers, Bucher Municipal Duration: 20 minutes

In this keynote presentation Dr. Rosemary Francis, Chief Scientist HPC at Altair, talks about the importance of High Performance Computing, how companies can access compute and the barriers to HPC cloud adoption. She also describes how the HPC environment is evolving and what we can expect in the future. Speaker: Dr. Rosemary Francis, Chief Scientist, Altair Duration: 20 minutes

In this presentation Ian Littlewood, Product Manager at Altair, runs attendees through some live demos around Altair's hybrid cloud bursting for HPC workloads. Discover how Altair can provide multi-cloud bursting tools to impact your business needs and how our simulator driven bursting can provide cost-optimized resources at the right time and based on your company's policy, controls and limits. Speaker: Ian Littlewood, Product Manager (Cloud Solutions), Altair Duration: 21 minutes

Digital Twin is enjoying a breakthrough, fueled by advances in the sophisticated use of physics-based simulation models of varying fidelities. Connected and informed by data from the field with the help of artificial intelligence, Leonardo S.p.A. validates the performance of product systems virtually in the early stages of design to accelerate the development of their next generation of products.

The shift from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicles (EV) has provided an enormous opportunity and scope for smart electrical vehicles. The EV is a complex system involving integrated and interdisciplinary mechanical, electrical, and software aggregates. The exponential growth of smart control systems has brought forth several developments in the EV industry including Digital Twin technology. It enables close monitoring and validation of EV systems to operate at their highest efficiency to improve the economy and drive quality.

The door closing feel is directly experienced by the customer and is typically treated as a subjective functional attribute. Objective targets have also been identified and correlated with subjective feelings, even though the final sign-off happens based on subjective assessment. Door Closing is a complex function involving multiple subsystems, their behavior & interface across parts.

Bill Bryce (VP of Product Management, Altair) and Rob Futrick (PM Lead, Azure HPC Software & Services, Microsoft) discuss how Altair and Microsoft collaborate to deliver breakthrough HPC in the cloud.

In modern Electric Vehicles, body panel design plays a huge role in thermal management for the Li-Ion battery and powertrain performance. Early-stage aerodynamic and thermal prediction is necessary for surface optimization of vehicle exterior. Well defined and controlled flow phenomena need to be achieved around the vehicle during A- surface development phase, to improve the ride performance and handling of the vehicle on the road In this phase, Altair CFD Thermal solver AcuSolve drastically reduced the time consumed for analysis

The aerodynamics design of high-performance bikes plays a significant role in reducing the overall drag, increase in speed, and improving the range efficiency. To improve and sustain the performance of the EV, it is necessary to explore various factors such as aerodynamically streamlining the vehicle design, optimise frontal area, and cooling electronic components as well.

Simple Energy has partnered with Altair Engineering since 2020 to provide best-in-class solutions for Electric Vehicle development. FEA simulation reduces the development cost, prototyping time, and iteration, we can actually develop safer parts before manufacturing using Altair Suite of Solutions. Simulation such as drop test, shock test will pass the ARAI test compliance.

Looking for a pioneering solution for complex design optimization challenges, ZF — a global technology company supplying systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and industrial technology — partnered with Altair to implement a data-driven development and optimization strategy for e-motors. The collaborative work of ZF and Altair has resulted in a user-friendly optimization environment capable of handling the complex definition of an e-motor platform design problem. Originally presented at the Charged EV Virtual Conference in October 2021, see https://chargedevs.com/oct-2021-session/modular-motor-platform-optimization/

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

The benefits of simulation in design and manufacturing simulation are well documented. But company management tends to be unaware of the advantages of simulating manufacturing early in product development. As a result, engineers lack the support from leadership that they need to overcome the roadblocks to adopt these simulation and digital transformation tools. In this keynote, Shawn Wasserman, Senior Editor at engineering.com, outlines survey results that depict the benefits of simulation throughout a product’s lifecycle and shares tips on how engineers can convince management to take up these technologies. Speaker: Shawn Wasserman, Senior Editor, engineering.com Duration: 22 minutes

Dactem (a DAM group company), developer of specialist test, measurement and assembly solutions for the aerospace industries, presents an overview of the optimization of a thrust balance used for accurate measurements in electrical thruster qualification endurance testing. The presentation will provide details on how a Multiphysics simulation approach was used to find the optimum design taking mechanical, thermal and electromagnetic performance into account. Speakers: Emmanuel Pouleau, CEO, Dactem (a DAM Group company) Pierre Moutet, Engineer, Dactem (a DAM Group company) Duration: 15 minutes

Electrification is everywhere! It brings energy efficiency into systems and also helps add new smart functionalities to products. The electric motor is a key element of such systems, converting electricity into mechanical power. It is multiphysics by nature. Electric machine engineers need to take into account various constraints from the early stage of the design, looking at electromechanical performance, as well as respecting thermal and NVH constraints. Simulations need to integrate these multiple physics and also coupling effects. Dedicated tools and streamlined multiphysics workflows are developed in order to reduce complexity and speed up the design. Speakers: Limin Huang, Electromechanical Engineer, Altair Samia Saaidi, Senior Technical Specialist - Electromechanical Solutions, 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

Design Partners' mission is to Elevate Human Potential. As a product design & innovation agency, they know that one skillset is required to conceive of ground-breaking future solutions and another to deliver on that innovation. In this keynote, James Lynch, Engineering Director for Design Partners, talks about the role physical prototyping has played in the firm's 35 year history, and the role digital prototyping has started to play in their future. He delves into why the team brought simulation in-house and explains the benefits they are seeing in their collaborations with some of the world’s most innovative brands. Speaker: James Lynch, Engineering Director, Design Partners Duration: 13 minutes

Altair® EDEM™ is a discrete element method solver that enables users to accurately simulate particulate processes. When coupled with Altair Computational Fluid Dynamics (AcuSolve), these two solutions enable the simulation and analysis of two-phase solid-fluid systems. These simulation tools are widely used in various industries and in academia to deepen the understanding of different unit operations, such as mixers, coaters, fluidized beds and pneumatic conveyors. The unique and novel solutions that Altair offers address the challenges when using DEM and coupled CFD-DEM methods.

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.