CAE suite eases international co-operation

HyperWorks 9.0 clients can now use unallocated HyperWorks units in their existing pool to immediately access Altair's PBS GridWorks on-demand grid-computing technology suite.

Altair Engineering has released Altair HyperWorks 9.0, an integrated suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software applications.

HyperWorks 9.0 is the first engineering simulation solution to deeply embed grid computing management tools with compute-intensive CAE software applications.

HyperWorks 9.0 clients can now use unallocated HyperWorks units in their existing pool to immediately access Altair's PBS GridWorks on-demand grid-computing technology suite at no incremental cost.

This common licensing model allows corporations to virtualise their global computing infrastructure, maximising the throughput of analysis jobs as well as the utilisation of hardware and software resources.

In addition, HyperWorks 9.0 extends its business model to deliver on-demand, third-party software applications.

With the release of HyperWorks 9.0, Altair has integrated all of its linear and nonlinear finite-element solvers into a single solver application.

Radioss 9.0 delivers a robust solution for simulating linear statics and dynamics, nonlinear transient dynamics and fluid-structure interaction events.

It simplifies multidisciplinary analysis studies and data exchange between analysis types.

Business benefits include lower software licensing costs and simplified IT administration.

"The advent of cluster and multicore computing environments requires new, more affordable software licensing models", says Jeffrey Brennan, Vice President of Altair's HyperWorks division.

The open-systems design of the HyperWorks platform allows engineers to seamlessly work with any CAD solution, any solver and any pre and post-processing environment.

The 9.0 release extends this interoperability even further to include Microsoft Office suite applications, fostering enterprise collaboration and information sharing.

This direct integration not only offers efficiencies to the reporting process but also will support design robustness investigations through a direct integration with Microsoft Excel and HyperStudy, Altair's design optimisation study application.

HyperGraph and HyperView post-processing applications now export directly to Office applications as well.

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