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 latest 2025 release delivers new features and improvements including AI-assisted user access, enhanced support for AI and machine learning workloads, job resource prediction, new dashboards, improved cloud scaling, and more.

“As the number one solutions provider in HPC and cloud, our latest enhancements to Altair HPCWorks empower our customers with even more comprehensive capabilities. Having next-level HPC and cloud is imperative in today’s data- and AI-driven landscape. With the industry-leading Altair HPCWorks platform, our customers can realize their vision knowing they have the market’s most powerful HPC and cloud platform in their toolkit.”

Sam Mahalingam, Chief Technology Officer, Altair | Read Full Press Release

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.

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Altair HPCWorks 2025 Highlights

Hybrid Cloud Scaling for Altair and Third-Party Schedulers

In addition to scaling multiple clusters running mixed workload managers, Altair® NavOps® delivers efficient cloud scaling and cost management for Altair and third-party job schedulers such as Slurm. Cloud scaling lets you match resources to demand, and Altair’s automation engine targets critical workloads for scaling. NavOps gives you a single, concentrated view into HPC and cloud operations and budget, even for multi-cloud installations. The latest NavOps release includes an install/uninstall tool for faster upgrades and enables Windows instances to scale in the Azure public cloud.

Accelerating Chip Design

The newest Altair® Accelerator™ release introduces job resource prediction with AI and machine learning, budgeting controls on pay-per-use software licenses, portable data format for time series data export and visibility, and job-specific security keys for REST authentication. Accelerator also has enhanced GPU scheduling capabilities with automatic discovery, and its resource data services enable Altair’s signature license-first scheduling to scale concurrently without impacting throughput. 

Enhance User Productivity with AI

Altair® Access™ gives users an AI assistant to boost productivity and throughput. On average, you can expect a 10-15% reduction in wait time. The latest Access release includes a native desktop client for streamlined remote access, and web support for launching and managing Jupyter Notebook. The Access API allows jobs to be submitted and managed from inside Jupyter Notebook as part of larger workflows.

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.

Dependency and Workflow Management

Altair® FlowTracer™ boosts efficiency and enables users, including those managing AI and machine learning workflows, to work in any modern programming language. You can manage and drive complex workflows with visual flow representation using any web-enabled device. Our new FlowTracer Description Notation (FDN) lets you describe and generate flows using language primitives, like Python dictionaries, and directly export them to FlowTracer for improved performance and ease of use.

Simplified, Streamlined HPC and License Reporting

Altair® InsightPro™ delivers detailed visibility into your HPC and cloud environments. It’s integrated with every Altair workload manager, so every HPC administrator benefits from the data it gathers right out of the box. It can also be integrated with Altair® Panopticon™ for advanced analytics. Altair® InsightPro™ for License Analytics tracks software licensing across your organization’s entire computing environment, with new features including rule-based notifications, Transport Layer Security (TLS) support, expanded log information, and more.

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Altair HPCWorks 2025 Product Releases and Updates

Workload Management

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.