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Altair® HPCWorks® 2025

The #1 HPC and Cloud Platform for Any Challenge, Anywhere

Altair® HPCWorks® is the only complete high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud platform that addresses every dimension of HPC in any industry. By harnessing artificial intelligence (AI), cloud scaling, and monitoring, Altair HPCWorks streamlines HPC administration – cementing our vision of powerful, efficient computing that enables unparalleled discovery. The 2025 release features expanded cloud scaling for our workload managers and third-party schedulers, advancements in AI-enabled job scheduling and visualization, monitoring, and reporting, and more. Don’t wait – experience the future of HPC today.

Any Workload, Any Cloud, Any Scale, Anywhere

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Flexible Licensing for Multidimensional HPC

Drive frictionless HPC innovation with Altair Units. From license management to monitoring, Altair covers every aspect of HPC with an interconnected platform built on a bedrock of reliable workload management to support HPC administrators’ goals. Benefit from the seamless connection of on-premises clusters to cloud resources, powered by an efficient, flexible, scalable licensing system.

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Cloud Scaling for Any Scheduler

Our cloud bursting solutions are now integrated with select third-party schedulers, providing the same benefits to an all-cloud HPC environment or a hybrid setup, regardless of workload manager. Easily access cloud resources without exceeding your budget. Altair’s cloud scaling solutions are designed to quickly scale up and down, saving teams time and money with our tightly integrated automation engine.

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AI-Powered HPC, HPC-Powered AI

New AI integrations cut wait times by 10-15%, simplifying the job submission process. Integration with the Altair® RapidMiner® platform offers users smarter, more efficient scheduling. Beyond AI-enabled HPC, Altair tools are designed with AI workloads in mind, with broad support for GPUs and Kubernetes. Address the complexities AI brings to your supercomputing clusters with HPC solutions that streamline the process without additional costs.

Flexibility. Accessibility. Scalability.

Introducing Altair Units for Altair HPCWorks

Experience unlimited possibilities and the freedom to innovate with Altair HPCWorks, now powered by Altair Units.

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Altair HPCWorks 2025 Highlights

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Hybrid Cloud Scaling for Altair and Third-Party Schedulers

In addition to providing scaling for multiple clusters running mixed workload managers, Altair® NavOps® offers efficient cloud scaling and cost management for Altair and third-party job schedulers such as Slurm. Benefit from cloud scaling to match resources to demand; Altair’s automation engine ensures you only scale resources to target workloads where necessary, while built-in budget control measures curb overspending on costly cloud resources. NavOps provides a single, concentrated view into HPC and cloud operations and cloud budget, even for multi-cloud installations.

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The Future of Workload Management is Here

Altair® PBS Professional® is the only workload manager to break down resource silos. Unleash your potential with increased GPU resource management regardless of vendor, Kubernetes management, and Altair® Liquid Scheduling™. The latest release features increased performance – such as the Liquid Scheduling-driven flexibility required for distributed workflows – enhanced functionality like the new Kubernetes Connector, global fairshare prioritization, and more.

Accelerating Chip Design

The newest release of Altair® Accelerator™ offers enhanced security, performance improvements – including the ability to run specified failed jobs – and updates to the resource data service. Accelerator now includes greater GPU scheduling capabilities, including the ability to discover and allocate GPU resources automatically, helping cluster administrators support chip design teams and get results faster. The resource data services now enables Altair’s signature license-first scheduling to scale concurrently without impacting throughput. 

Dependency and Workflow Management

Altair® FlowTracer™ boosts efficiency by supporting any modern programming language. Users can now work in any modern programming language, including those managing AI and machine learning workflows. Manage and drive complex workflows with visual flow representation using any web-enabled device.

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Enhance User Productivity with AI

Altair® Access™ provides users with an AI assistant that boosts productivity and throughput. On average, users can expect a 10-15% reduction in wait time, improving cluster usage. Users can focus on their world-changing work while Access automatically maintains efficiency, job statuses, and monitoring.

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Simplified, Streamlined HPC Reporting

Altair® InsightPro™ delivers detailed visibility into your HPC and cloud environments. It’s integrated with every Altair workload manager, meaning every HPC administrator benefits from the data it gathers right out of the box. Alongside comprehensive reporting and monitoring, Altair InsightPro provides license analytics that tracks and distributes your software license environment for scalability and ease of use. It can also be integrated with Altair® Panopticon™ for advanced analytics.

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Altair HPCWorks 2025 Product Releases and Updates

Workload Management

Altair® PBS Professional® includes first-class GPU support for NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel devices, making it the best workload manager – regardless of what vendor provides a site’s GPUs. PBS Professional’s new Kubernetes (K8s) connector delivers automatic bursting of K8s pods into PBS-managed resources, opening a new market with an AI/machine learning focus where GPUs, K8s, and new-to-HPC workflows are prevalent. Liquid Scheduling works with one or more PBS Professional clusters to supercharge performance and functionality, including increased job throughput, reduced time to result for job submitters, resilience against overload, and global fairshare job prioritization. Liquid Scheduling provides a unified submission layer to multiple PBS Professional clusters and resiliency in the face of query load.

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Altair® Accelerator™ and Accelerator Plus support the use of API keys for REST-based authentication so customers can interact with schedulers using their programming language of choice (Julia, JavaScript, Python, Lua, etc.) and build scheduling into other services. Auto GPU discovery enables the scheduler to detect and provision GPU resources automatically; reduces the burden on administrators; and works well with cloud resources, where compute instances are often selected dynamically. This is important for workloads using hardware acceleration.

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Altair® Grid Engine® improves resource utilization and optimizes workloads. The latest release includes performance enhancements and improved integration with the latest GPUs.

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Altair® Hero™ includes design-specific placement solutions and enables customers to improve job packing on the emulator with unusual placements that typically require API calls into specific emulators. Hero’s scheduling capabilities allow the solution to be used with a variety of emulator platforms.

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Workload and Workflow Visualization

Altair® Access™ gives users an AI assistant to estimate job resources — simplifying job submission, setting user expectations, and improving cluster utilization, and reducing wait times by 10-15% on average. Jupyter Notebook users can now use our Access APIs to submit jobs, monitor job progress, retrieve job results or work in progress, etc. The release also includes performance improvements in remote desktops when rotating 3D geometries using older hardware. It benefits AI, machine learning, and HPC across all verticals that are developing AI/machine learning teams.

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Altair® FlowTracer™ offers streamlined utilization with a REST-based access and JSON-based flow description. It allows customers to work natively in any modern programming language of their choice. Users can view and control complex workflows via multiple client devices including Android and iOS devices via the WebKit (browser) JavaScript client. The release also includes high-performance flow definition and fully secure (TLS) connectivity. FlowTracer will benefit chip design teams who are looking to modernize their design practice, while AI/machine learning users can benefit from FlowTracer using their preferred development languages, including Python, Julia, and Jupyter Notebook.

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Hybrid and Cloud Computing

Altair® NavOps® expands its offering by allowing customers with mixed workload managers, including Slurm, to adopt NavOps. Full cloud cluster deployment enables HPC as a service for Altair HPCWorks customers, including dynamic scaling with local clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI) across geographies, or to their own private cloud using OpenStack. Users can create budget centers that align with a customer’s business structure and track costs using cost centers.

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Altair® Control™ is bolstered by enhancements that continue to offer users an easy-to-use web application to manage and monitor HPC clusters.

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License Management

Altair® InsightPro™ for License Analytics includes license management functionality, including reporting and sharing. Altair InsightPro offers detailed analytics to maximize the value of an organization’s software investment. Users can fine-tune inventory levels using data-driven insights for cost-effective resource allocation. It integrates with Panopticon and third-party tools for data analytics.

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Altair® Allocator™ computes global fairshare values, combining multiple clusters’ resource usage, allowing a global priority rank for each queued job to be computed. Chip design teams that are dispersed across multiple geographies and data centers can use this to manage and allocate compute resources according to project priorities.

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Altair® Monitor™ complements Altair Accelerator with continued improvements to share and track costly chip design licenses, with real-time insight into availability, usage, job status, and more.

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Altair® Software Asset Optimization (SAO), Software Asset Optimization (SAO) includes proactive stability measures to maintain streamlined license management, reporting, and sharing for an efficient, optimized environment.

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HPC Administration

Altair® InsightPro™ delivers detailed reports about system efficiency and resource utilization. It tracks compute resources for idle jobs, including requested versus used resources and expansion ratios to measure job turnaround times, at any scale. It quickly identifies inefficiencies across hardware, software, and user behavior, helping HPC administrators correct issues before they affect performance.

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Altair® Breeze™ is an I/O profiling solution that helps HPC administrators quickly solve software deployments. As part of the new release, Breeze is now tailored for use within the Altair Units licensing system.

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Altair® Mistral™ includes simplified dashboards for easier access to the in-depth analysis and telemetry HPC administrators need to maintain healthy clusters. This version also includes increased monitoring of NVIDIA GPU resources.

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