Altair Engineering

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Altair Engineering is a product design and development, engineering software and grid computing software company. Altair was founded by Jim Scapa, George Christ, and Mark Kistner in 1985. Over its history, it has had various locations near Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is currently headquartered in Troy, Michigan with regional offices throughout America, Europe and Asia.

Altair Engineering is the creator of the HyperWorks suite of CAE software products.

Organization

Altair is divided into three business divisions: Product Design (PD), HyperWorks CAE Software (HW), and PBS Grid Computing (PBS).

Portfolio

The principal product offerings from Altair's Commercial Software division is its HyperWorks line of software, including:

OptiStruct, optimization software
Radioss, FEA solver (linear and non-lienar)
MotionSolve, multibody solver.

The Enterprise Computing division develops and manages:

PBS Professional software, developed from OpenPBS.

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