Altair Forward First – March 2024 Edition

We kicked off March by hosting Future.Industry 2024, our flagship global event focused on showcasing the technology and leaders poised to create a better future. Check out the event’s five can’t-miss presentations here. Read on to see what else we were up to this month.

Executive Insights

• In this article, Mark Do Couto, SVP of data analytics, explores what makes explainable AI capabilities so vital and reveals his three main tips for implementing explainable AI in your enterprise.
• Chief People Officer Gilma Saravia wrote about Altair’s culture and what global people-focused initiatives she and her team have in store for 2024. “We’ve fostered a culture no company can match. It would be easy to rest on our laurels... but that’s not who we are – we’re innovators always looking to improve.”
• Two of Altair’s leaders sat down for Q&A sessions with the Altair editorial team: Mamdouh Refaat on generative AI and the future of work, and Yeshwant Mummaneni on his top takeaways from the 2024 Gartner Data & Analytics Summit.

Data Analytics and AI

• Tech Times named Altair? RapidMiner? its top AI data analysis tool for 2024. "Altair RapidMiner eliminates the silos that hamper decision-making and causes inefficiencies, increasing the quality and diversity of deliverables," the article said.
• Discover how organizations can use Altair SLC? to modernize their investments in SAS language infrastructure with minimal retraining, disruption, and risk of error – and no third-party applications.
• Mamdouh Refaat continued his “Data Science Basics” series on Medium, penning articles on data trees, decision trees and the Simpson’s Paradox, statistical distributions, and the wonder of the logarithmic function.
• Altair welcomed two new data analytics channel partners: Analytium (U.K./Ireland) and Relational (Greece).

?Simulation

• We announced the upcoming release of Altair SimSolid? for electronics, bringing game-changing fast, easy, and precise multi-physics scenario exploration for electronics, from chips, PCBs, and ICs to full system design. The initial release, expected in Q2 2024, will support structural and thermal analysis for PCBs and ICs with full electromagnetics analysis coming in a future release.
• Discover how UNO MINDA used Altair? SimLab? and Altair? PollEx? to conduct design experiments and sensitivity analyses for thermal management and facilitate accurate electromechanical analysis in crucial electric vehicle (EV) components.
• Learn how Altair? physicsAI? and its deep learning capabilities can deliver fast, accurate CAE predictions and transform the design life cycle.

HPC and Cloud

• At Future.Industry 2024, Chief HPC Scientist Rosemary Francis introduced Altair Liquid Scheduling – the biggest change to HPC resource management in 30 years. Discover how Liquid Scheduling is poised to deliver the next generation of workload management.
• The world’s leading scientific institutions trust Altair’s technology to handle their toughest jobs. In this discussion, Bill Allcock, ALCF Director of Operations at Argonne National Laboratory, explores why Argonne uses Altair? PBS Professional? to facilitate their HPC resources and world-leading research.
• Hear Rick Watkins, senior director of cloud computing, explain how you can accelerate CAE and CFD with hassle-free HPC.
• Scott Campbell, program manager, talked about how Altair solutions facilitate hybrid environments that combine HPC and AI workloads.

Notable Highlights and Coverage

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• Altair’s Kamila Klug for Hannover Messe: Navigating the Tech Talent Landscape
• Tech Brew: Meet the Company at the Center of Rocket Science and Data Science
• Tech Times: Top 5 Best AI Data Analysis Tools in 2024
• SemiWiki: 2024 Outlook with Jim Cantele of Altair