Collaboration brings together Altair's  complete  HPC  software suite with HPE's HPC systems, ushering in exascale era

TROY, Mich., Jan. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --  Altair  (Nasdaq: ALTR), the global leader converging simulation, HPC, and AI, signed a multi-year agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to offer Altair's HPC  solution suite for job scheduling and management with HPE's HPC systems to support next-generation supercomputing. The solution suite includes Altair PBS Professional, a fast and powerful workload manager that provides users with robust, scalable technology, capable of handling the most intense jobs while improving productivity, optimizing utilization and efficiency, and simplifying administration for supercomputers of any size.

"Altair and HPE have a strong, nearly 20-year relationship anchored in our shared desire to offer customers top-of-the-line solutions that will drive the future of supercomputing," said Sam Mahalingam, chief technology  officer,  Altair.  "By  providing  PBS  Professional and  our  other  solutions,  users  will have  the ability  to  tackle the  world's  most  daunting  on-premises  and  cloud  challenges  without  the typical  hassle."

With the advent of the exascale era and powerful, specialized HPC systems requiring best-in-class software tools, HPE will offer users access to a complete set of Altair solutions with its next-generation HPC systems to support increasingly complex HPC requirements such as modeling, simulation, machine learning, deep  learning, and multiphysics. Additionally, Altair's trusted, global technical expertise and support services will be available to HPE's customers who access the following solutions through the Altair and HPE  partnership:

• Altair PBS Professional – A world-class job scheduling solution, which meets the needs of any project – from small-throughput tasks to cutting-edge exascale systems such as the Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.
• Altair Access – Provides a simple, powerful, and consistent interface for submitting and monitoring jobs on remote clusters, clouds, and other resources, allowing engineers and researchers to focus on core activities and spend less time learning how to run applications and moving data around.
• Altair Grid Engine – A leading distributed resource management system for optimizing workloads and resources in thousands of data centers, improving performance, and boosting productivity and efficiency.
• Altair Control – An easy-to-use web application to monitor and manage cluster configuration and reporting in an HPC environment.

"HPE offers the world's most comprehensive HPC and AI solutions to solve any data problem, at any scale, with options to adopt our solutions as a cloud service through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform," said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPC, at HPE. "By continuing our strong and long-standing collaboration with Altair, we are equipping our customers with tools to optimize their resources and focus on unlocking value from their data quickly and efficiently."

About  Altair

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation,  high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI). Altair enables organizations across  broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more  sustainable  future.  To  learn  more, please  visit  www.altair.com.

Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1421069/Altair_Logo.jpg