REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 22,
2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Oracle announced the
expansion of its partnership with Altair, a global technology
company providing solutions in data analytics, product development,
and high-performance computing (HPC). As part of the multi-year
agreement, Altair will enable many of its internal workloads and
commercial software-as-a-service (SaaS) to run on Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure, including its portfolio of high-performance
engineering simulation and analytics products.
Altair's 11,000 customers worldwide, including manufacturing,
automotive, aerospace, high technology, life sciences, and
financial services companies, can launch Altair products on Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure to help speed and improve product design at
lower costs. Only Oracle provides the industry's first bare-metal
HPC infrastructure with the lowest latency RDMA networking. Oracle
Cloud's HPC solutions deliver price-performance that is comparable
to on-premises infrastructure, which enables Altair to
lift-and-shift workloads seamlessly from on-premises to the
cloud.
"Our customers are driven to solve the world's toughest and most
complex problems and they use our software to do just that; making
their products faster, better, and smarter than ever before," said
Sam Mahalingam, chief technical
officer, Altair. "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure helps us accomplish
this because it delivers great price-performance, enabling our
customers to easily design innovative sustainable products."
Altair is a pioneer of simulation-driven design. Using
engineering simulation early in the design process enables Altair
customers to fine tune their designs faster, reducing time to
market and saving money on prototype testing, which can be
prohibitively expensive. By moving its engineering simulation
workloads from a competitive cloud to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's
HPC services, Altair has already achieved 20 percent cost savings.
Oracle Cloud is especially suited to latency-sensitive applications
like Altair Radioss™, Altair AcuSolve™ and Altair OptiStruct™.
"Altair is a leader in simulation software that helps companies
design, test, and develop products digitally first to save on
production costs," said Clay
Magouyrk, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure. "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's focus on
price-performance is a perfect match with how Altair helps its
customers innovate and bring products to market faster at lower
costs. We're excited to partner with Altair to move this industry
to the cloud."
Running any large-scale simulation requires large amounts of
compute power and capacity. Oracle is uniquely positioned to
support Altair with Oracle's industry-first bare-metal compute
infrastructure with RDMA cluster networking that provides extremely
low latencies – under two microseconds – and 100 Gbps bandwidth to
enable large scale HPC migrations to the cloud. In addition, Altair
will continue to use Oracle bare-metal GPU technology to deliver
Altair ultraFluidX™ and Altair nanoFluidX™, Altair's differentiated
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) offerings that run exclusively
on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GPUs.
For example, with Altair UltraFluidX, customers can simulate the
airflow over a car. Customers can modify the shape of the mirrors
to see what impact it has on fuel efficiency and the aerodynamics
of the vehicle, which ultimately impact things like braking
distance, stability of the car, and wind noise. With Oracle's HPC
offerings, customers can look at many different iterations of the
problem and analysis without being constrained by on-premises
compute resources.
Customers are reinventing how they develop products, measure
risk, deliver experiences, and revolutionize their industries using
Oracle's HPC solutions. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's HPC services
uniquely provide bare-metal compute instances, low latency cluster
networks with RDMA, high performance distributed storage solutions,
and network traffic isolation to automate and help run jobs
seamlessly in the cloud. Oracle Cloud supports the full array of
HPC workloads, including CFD, crash, computer-aided design (CAE),
electronic design automation (EDA), VFX rendering, reservoir
simulations, and AI training/Inference.
About Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR)
Altair is a global
technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in
the areas of data analytics, product development, and high
performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations across
broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected
world while creating a more sustainable future. To learn more,
please visit www.altair.com.
About Oracle
The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite
of integrated applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human
Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly
Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the
Oracle Autonomous Database. For more information about Oracle
(NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about running HPC workloads on Oracle Cloud
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Read the infrastructure roadmap update blog
- Watch this video to learn the latest about Oracle's cloud
infrastructure and HPC
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