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Altair® HPCWorks® 2026

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 advanced monitoring, Altair HPCWorks streamlines HPC administration and enables unparalleled discovery. The latest release delivers new features and improvements including enhanced GPU integration and utilization, expanded AI and machine learning tools and support, and extended reporting so users can understand, tune, and optimize their HPC environments.

From AI to Quantum, Any Scale, Anywhere

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Powerful AI and GPU Integration

Altair solutions are designed with AI workloads in mind, with broad support for GPUs and Kubernetes. Altair HPCWorks streamlines the complexities AI brings to supercomputing clusters without additional costs, and the latest release includes new features such as Jupyter Notebook integration for AI and machine learning model training. Because GPU-accelerated computing is essential for these data-intensive activities, Altair tools are tailored to efficiently support GPU discovery and optimization. Altair HPCWorks 2026 supports NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel accelerators and gives IT administrators fast GPU integration and extended reporting. It includes new GPU properties and simple, powerful ways for users to request GPU properties for job submission.

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The Road to Agentic HPC

The advent of smart AI tools makes it easier for users to get fast results without needing deep IT or scheduling expertise. Agentic HPC uses AI to automate tasks and get answers faster, using intelligent scheduling and memory selection to optimize workloads. Altair HPCWorks takes advantage of AI-assisted functionality — including new AI-powered memory resource prediction — to streamline job submission and optimize resource utilization for clusters, clouds, and hybrid computing environments. An AI assistant helps users estimate job resources, improving cluster utilization and reducing wait times by 10-15% on average. Integration with solutions like Altair® RapidMiner® enables the creation of custom AI models trained for individual workloads.

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Hybrid Classical and Quantum Computing

The quantum frontier promises to dramatically speed up processing and bring technological development to a new level. While quantum computing still faces significant hurdles, it’s already being used alongside classical HPC; both technologies excel at different types of challenges, and hybrid classical-quantum workflows show promise for science, engineering, and financial applications. Hybrid quantum and classical computing can improve the operational efficiency of rare-event detection processes, with significant growth potential as quantum capabilities and scale improve. Altair HPCWorks 2026 makes it possible to efficiently run novel hybrid quantum-classical workflows that can detect complex, changing patterns such as fraudulent credit card transactions.

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Altair HPCWorks 2026 Highlights

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GPU-Enhanced Workload Management

With today’s data-intensive AI and mixed workloads, workload managers need to be fast, smart, and equipped to handle mountains of data and widely distributed resources. They also need to incorporate GPU and Kubernetes support alongside more traditional HPC scheduling tools. The Altair® PBS Professional® and Altair® Grid Engine® workload managers get a boost for 2026 with new and upgraded features including enhanced GPU discovery, with new GPU properties and simple, powerful ways for users to request them for job submission. These solutions support NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel accelerators, with simplified GPU configuration, faster GPU integration, and extended reporting to boost utilization and optimize expensive hardware investments.

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Optimized Cloud HPC and AI Factories

Cloud and hybrid cloud computing are attractive alternatives to owning and maintaining an expensive HPC data center. With growing computational demand and the prevalence of data-intensive AI workloads, computing in the cloud and in AI factories — specialized data centers that deliver AI as a service — is becoming a widely accepted norm. Altair HPCWorks enables the AI factory, employing Altair® NavOps® for cost-efficient hybrid scaling and cloud spending control. NavOps 2026 features a data-streaming API that enables administrators to compose automations that respond to cloud changes in real time. It integrates with all Altair workload managers and with Altair RapidMiner, unlocking the potential of new AI-driven cloud management policies, reducing costs, and dramatically speeding up operations.

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Comprehensive Cluster Visibility

In a data-driven world, HPC administrators need insight to make informed decisions. Altair® InsightPro™ is a visualization cockpit that helps organizations monitor their IT strategies. It gives users comprehensive visibility into their HPC clusters and connects with other Altair tools for advanced data analytics and AI-powered insights. New capabilities include cluster dashboard enhancements, tracking for feature-based licensing, and real-time monitoring for Altair workload managers. Flexible deployment models make adoption easy, and improved operational visibility enables timely decision-making so users can boost efficiency and generate value from HPC infrastructure. Altair InsightPro 2026 includes new reports, agent installation enhancements, SELinux targeted mode support, data upgrade support, and much more.

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Enterprise-Wide License Analytics and Reporting

Organizations can optimize budgets and get the most from software assets using Altair® InsightPro™ for License Analytics, a comprehensive license and software usage analytics solution with real-time insight, advanced license optimization, and lightning-fast performance. Altair InsightPro for License Analytics tracks software licensing across the entire computing environment, whether a team is together in one place or spread around the world. The 2026 release includes agent enhancements, denials handling and real-time reporting by vendor and feature, and increased licensing flexibility for easier integration with existing Altair deployments. Users also get vendor management improvements, project assignments and reporting, easy no-login report sharing, and more.

EDA and Semiconductor Design Solutions

Semiconductor design leaders rely on electronic design automation (EDA) — and Altair semiconductor design solutions are built to optimize EDA designs and reduce time to market. Users can visualize and analyze complex flows and optimize compute resources with Altair® FlowTracer™, now with canonical Docker Compose files for multi-container deployment. The Altair® Accelerator™ enterprise job scheduler maximizes capacity utilization and can run millions of semiconductor design jobs per day with sub-millisecond latency. The 2026 Accelerator release includes out-of-the-box support for AI and machine learning model training, AI-powered memory resource prediction, license-first scheduling, and more.

Easy User Access – No IT Expertise Required

Engineers and researchers need to focus on their core work, not on learning how to use specialized software. Altair® Access™ provides a simple, powerful, consistent user interface for submitting and monitoring jobs on remote clusters, clouds, and other resources. Users can view job status from anywhere, on any device, and collaborate easily from multiple locations. The latest release includes support for external databases, file management improvements for added flexibility and security, and per-app estimates for increased accuracy. Updates for 2026 include Jupyter Notebook integration for Altair workload managers, enhanced integration for jobs submitted directly to the workload manager, and a new thick client for faster performance and tighter integration with Windows desktop environments.

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Altair HPCWorks 2026 Product Releases and Updates

Workload Management

The industry-leading PBS Professional workload manager gets a boost for 2026 with new and upgraded features including enhanced GPU discovery, with new GPU properties — vendor, architecture, model, and profile — and simple, powerful ways for users to request GPU properties for job submission. It supports NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel accelerators, with simplified GPU configuration and support for the latest versions of NVIDIA DCGM, AMD ROCm, and Intel XPU Manager. PBS Professional makes it easy for users to select fractional GPUs — NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPUs (MIGs) and AMD Instinct partitions — and it gives IT administrators faster GPU integration and extended reporting to boost utilization and help optimize expensive hardware investments. Additional upgrades include support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, multilevel security (MLS), legacy container images based on CentOS 7, and using a custom OIDC token user ID in the GraphQL API — plus many stability and runtime improvements.

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Accelerator is a high-throughput, enterprise-grade job scheduler designed to meet the complex demands of semiconductor design, EDA, and HPC. The 2026 release is packed with new features including out-of-the-box support for AI and machine learning model training, AI-powered memory resource prediction for efficient cluster hardware utilization, and Altair’s Resource Data Service (RDS) enabled by default for scalable, license-first scheduling. RDS facilitates high-throughput job flows and prioritizes job execution based on license availability. In addition, Accelerator users can conveniently deploy multi-container Docker applications with canonical Docker Compose files, following established specifications and conventions, and can send I/O profile data directly to a time series database (TSDB) for integration of profile data into other analysis engines.

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Altair Grid Engine optimizes distributed workloads and resources in thousands of data centers. Altair Grid Engine 2026.0.0 includes significant upgrades including enhanced GPU discovery, with new GPU properties and simple, powerful ways for users to request GPU properties for job submission. It supports NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel accelerators, with simplified GPU configuration support for the latest versions of NVIDIA DCGM, AMD ROCm, and Intel XPU Manager. Altair Grid Engine makes it easy for users to select fractional GPUs — NVIDIA MIGs and AMD Instinct partitions — and it gives IT administrators faster GPU integration and extended reporting to boost utilization and help optimize expensive hardware investments.

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Altair® Hero™ is an end-to-end solution designed specifically for emulation environments. The latest release includes security, performance, and functionality enhancements including new reservations options, communications improvements, and support for Hero placement restrictions and requirements.

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Workload and Workflow Visualization

Access provides a simple, powerful, consistent user interface for submitting and monitoring jobs on remote clusters, clouds, and other resources. The latest release is tested with SELinux (targeted mode) and feature licensing, with support for external databases and file management improvements for added flexibility and security. Job Advisor now provides per-app estimates for increased accuracy, and Master File Analyzer supports user-submitted zip files. Access 2026 includes Jupyter Notebook integration for PBS Professional and Altair Grid Engine, optimized support for StarCCM+ interaction, a remote Windows desktop client, and enhanced integration for jobs submitted directly to the workload manager. It’s also optimized to handle models with large numbers of component values.

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FlowTracer enables advanced design flow visualization, development, and execution. FlowTracer’s declarative flow description notation (FDN) allows methodologies to construct complex flows using various languages and generate flow description leveraging existing JSON export and REST library calls. Performance is excellent and is suitable for large-scale flows found in design verification and in-process quality assurance (IPQA). Users can deploy multi-container Docker applications conveniently with canonical Docker Compose files.

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Hybrid and Cloud Computing

NavOps enables global operations with optimized, cost-efficient HPC in the cloud. New features for 2026 include a streaming interface and a GraphQL interface for NavOps events and an event-driven UI that automatically updates to the current state with no browser refresh. Expanded event notifications deliver key data, including errors and warnings, to minimize user involvement in remedying issues. Advanced storage management on burst instances provides common user interface (UI) and command-line interface (CLI) processes to add storage for all supported clouds, and node classes now support instance families to mitigate instance scarcity issues in the public cloud. Enhanced integration with Altair Grid Engine introduces fine-grained filtering to support common customer use cases in complex environments, and enhanced Altair RapidMiner integration provides future automation flexibility and facilitates scaling strategies for instance families.

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License Management

Altair InsightPro for License Analytics delivers comprehensive, enterprise-wide license analytics and reporting. The 2026 release includes agent enhancements and tracking for feature-based licensing, along with improved denials handling and real-time reporting with Altair One denials and denials by vendor and feature. Vendor management improvements include custom notes, added administrator ability to edit dates and update, delete, and consolidate vendor features. It also includes project assignments and reporting, and new Organizational Hierarchy module capabilities that enable users to import data from CSV files and give them richer raw-data correction in the UI. All internal connections are password-protected and use transport layer security (TLS) by default, and the Desktop Software Usage Analytics module now has more advanced capability to set up automatic rules to send alerts or automatically harvest licenses for idle desktop software.

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Altair® Allocator™ maximizes multi-site license usage through sharing, delivering clear visibility into how licenses are used across an organization. Users can deploy multi-container Docker applications conveniently with canonical Docker Compose files.

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HPC Administration

Altair InsightPro gives users comprehensive visibility into their HPC clusters. New capabilities include feature-based licensing, cluster dashboard enhancements, and real-time monitoring for PBS Professional and Accelerator. Altair InsightPro 2026 also includes agent installation enhancements, a new reports cache, SELinux targeted mode support, and data upgrade support. Users can view specific job attributes and export schedule-based reports in PDF or image formats. New reports include Job Table, Node/Tasker Table, Fairshare Group Walltime, and Fairshare Group Wait Time. Additional Accelerator support makes data from Kafka topics available for reporting by Altair Panopticon for advanced data analytics.

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Altair Breeze™ enables users to quickly solve software deployment problems and resolve file and network dependencies. With detailed data for storage exports and summary reports for sharing, Altair Breeze identifies good and bad I/O for easy wins. The latest release supports GPU profiling for NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD accelerators.

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Altair Mistral™ is the leading application monitoring tool for HPC and scientific computing, with unique per-job I/O monitoring that gives users all the information they need to fix system problems and effectively manage hybrid cloud — now with improved and streamlined dashboards.

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