Altair Forward First – October 2024 Edition

On October 30, Altair announced that it has entered into a merger agreement with a subsidiary of Siemens. Click here to learn more. Read on to see what else Altair has been up to throughout October.

Data Analytics and AI

• October brought a trio of data analytics-focused Executive Insights articles: one from Chief Engineer of Analytics, HPC, and Altair One Yeshwant Mummaneni on Altair’s data analytics momentum in 2024, and two from SVP of Analytics and IoT Development Christian Buckner on data architectures and Altair’s unique AI fabric capabilities.
• And be sure to check out these two additional articles: one on data governance, and one on graph vs. structured data.
• Register today for Data Science Day 2024. This free virtual event is designed to foster a dynamic global community of data scientists and is perfect for users wanting to broaden and deepen their data science skill set.
• We released three new episodes of the Future Says podcast, featuring guests from Wipro, John Deere, and Strella Biotech. Short on time? You can read a recap for each episode by clicking the links for E12 (Wipro), E13 (John Deere), and E14 (Strella Biotech).?
• We published an array of assets that highlight the power and flexibility of the Altair? RapidMiner? data analytics and AI platform within specific verticals. Click the following links to see how Altair RapidMiner is a game changer in banking, automotive, retail, and manufacturing analytics. You can also read an article about how today’s retailers are using data science to optimize inventory turnover.
• Altair Chief Data Scientist Mamdouh Refaat wrote an article for BuiltIn on the topic of overfitting: what it is, how to spot it, and how to minimize it.
• Learn how knowledge graph-powered genAI can help enterprises supercharge their data analytics and AI capabilities organization-wide.
• In this explainer video, see how Altair? Panopticon? gives users unparalleled access to real-time data insight.
• Altair named QuantiaS as a new channel partner for Italy. Within the partnership, QuantiaS will offer its customers access to the Altair RapidMiner platform to drive data and AI innovation within Italy and beyond.

Simulation

• The end of October in the U.S. means one exciting, spine-tingling holiday: Halloween. Be sure to check out our latest edition of Digital Debunking, which is all about how this year’s trick-or-treaters can maximize their candy haul.
• Altair announced the launch of the 2024-2025 Altair Global Student Contest. The contest is open to all students who want to show off their engineering and design talents for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes.
• For his upcoming exhibition at Barcelona's S+T+ARTS AIR Festival on Oct. 29-30, digital artist Richard Vijgen used Altair? Feko? to visualize how the invisible world of electromagnetic signals and waves interact with the tangible world around us. In this Q&A, learn why Vijgen chose Altair and Feko to complete his latest project.
• We announced our collaboration with Motivo, a product engineering firm that uses Altair’s unique combination of engineering consulting and software to drive innovation for organizations in the aerospace industry.
• Explore how tools like Altair? Inspire? are democratizing the design of custom medical devices and helping improve patient outcomes and lower medical costs.
• We debuted two new customer stories centered around optimizing the design of printed circuit boards (PCBs) and simulating crack propagation.

HPC and Cloud

• Ahead of Supercomputing ’24 (SC24), the world’s biggest event for HPC and cloud, Yeshwant Mummaneni highlighted three ways Altair HPC helps organizations create and innovate, and how they help companies go from idea to execution faster than ever.
• Chief Technology Officer Sam Mahalingam shared his thoughts on how Altair’s long and storied history in the HPC space makes it unique within today’s market.
• Altair’s collaboration with the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team for the 37th America’s Cup was comprehensive and impactful. Read this article and case study to see how Altair's HPC solutions revolutionized the Luna Rossa team’s design life cycle for the world’s oldest sailing competition.
• Altair and researchers from the Technical University of Munich made a breakthrough in the field of quantum computing for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
• Discover why Argonne National Laboratory chose Altair? PBS Professional? to manage and scale its unique "Allegro" model for materials science, and see how PBS Professional helped the Argonne team increase Allegro's time to failure without compromising speed or accuracy.

Notable Highlights and Coverage

• Altair was named to Newsweek’s annual Most Loved Workplaces list for the fourth consecutive year.
• Altair’s Paolo Colombo for AdvancedManufacturing.org: Four Areas AI Can Impact Aerospace.