Altair Takes GPU Acceleration over a Tipping Point for Real-Time Digital Twins with NVIDIA Technology

On the SEAMLESS INTEGRATION between Altair One Cloud Innovation Gateway and NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint. Few today doubt the value that comes with GPU-accelerated innovation in simulation-driven design work. Ultimately, the capacity to process heavy data volumes is critical to speed, capability and quality in simulation. A development that has not least gained explosive momentum in the light of the NVIDIA boom of recent years; partly among PLM developers, and partly on the user side among larger OEM companies. In the latter case, for example, the automotive industry as always is quick to implement solutions in practical concepts. Mercedes and BMW are examples of companies that have put NVIDIA solutions at the forefront in connection with new product realization and factory concepts.
Altair is one of the players on the PLM and sub-PLM development side that has embraced NVIDIA's solutions for GPU acceleration–NVIDIA NIM microservices, and NVIDIA Omniverse technologies. This HPC (High Performance Computing), AI, simulation and analysis developer, which will be owned by SIEMENS Digital Industries Software once all formalities are complete, announced this week a technical integration between the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Real Time Digital Twins and the Altair One cloud innovation gateway. This, Altair’s Chief Technology Officer Sam Mahalingam believes, will help users take another step forward in their digital engineering and digital transformation efforts. The potential time savings are huge: with models in tools like Altair PhysicsAI, analysis time can be reduced from hours or days to seconds or minutes.
“Integrating the Omniverse Blueprint for Real Time Digital Twins with Altair One gives users a powerful new way to operationalize and innovate with digital twins, data and AI in real time. It’s also another example of how Altair continues to be a leader in all things digital engineering and digital twin,” he said in a statement.
In the press release, Altair claims that by leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time digital twins in Altair One, users can collaborate and simulate in a shared virtual environment in real time. The technology combines 3D design, AI, and ray tracing to create immersive digital environments that serve as a next-level digital workplace for professionals across industries. Users benefit from advanced rendering and streaming capabilities in the cloud that simplify how software components work together in large systems, especially those used for AI, data processing, and graphics computing. The integration will open up new avenues for innovation and collaboration in areas such as crash and drop test simulations.
"Digital twin technology is reshaping industries and giving engineers and designers the tools to enable real-time design, optimize faster, and do more," said Timothy Costa, senior director of CAE and CUDA-X at NVIDIA. “Now, Altair users can leverage NVIDIA’s best-in-class technology to operationalize digital engineering and streamline their digital workflows.”
It will be incredibly interesting to see what Siemens and Altair can do together around simulation-driven digital twins in NVIDIA’s GPU accelerated environments. It can take the practical use over a tipping point.