10:30 am - 10:45 am | Altair One: Gateway to a Digital Enterprise.
Sridhar Ravikoti - Director, Product Management, Altair
As the pace of innovation accelerates, Engineers, Researchers and Scientists need to create intelligent digital models that combine Simulation, High Performance Computing and AI into sophisticated Digital Twins. With Altair One, organizations can Scale Out, Scale Up, Collaborate/Visualize & Organize: Anywhere, on Any Cloud, for Any Workload, at any Scale.
11:00 am - 11:15 am | OpenRadioss on the Latest Arm Architecture
Conrad Hillairet - Staff HPC Engineer, Arm
What could AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure and Nvidia have in common? All of them have developed silicon based on Arm Neoverse technologies to address cloud and HPC workloads. The Arm HPC ecosystem is thriving. In this presentation we will discuss the status and the performance of Altair® OpenRadioss™ on the latest Arm-based processors.
11:30 am - 11:45 am | HPC for AI Workloads with HPCWorks Access
William Bryce - SVP Product Management, Altair
HPCWorks 2026 highlights how AI is both empowered to predict and empowering to create. It showcases two major innovations within HPCWorks Access: the AI Advisor, which predicts job runtime and resource needs to optimize scheduling and reduce costs; and the JupyterLab notebook Integration, which enables seamless, interactive AI and HPC workflows through client and service modes. Together, HPCWorks advances intelligent job management, efficient resource use, and accessible, AI-driven high-performance computing.
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | PBS Pro: The Heartbeat of HPC for Northrop Grumman
Cole Turner - Sr. Principal Software Engineer, HPC, Northrop Grumman
Much like the heart is critical to the proper functioning of the human body, Altair PBS Pro has occupied a central role in the HPC operations of the Promontory, UT HPC infrastructure for years. The Promontory HPC scheduler provides the resource management, telemetry, and fair share regulations for the streamline operation of critical Enterprise IT infrastructure.
1:30 pm - 1:45 am | High Performance and Quantum Computing: Solving Industrial Scale Problems
Cameron Brunner - Senior Director HPC Engineering, Altair
Ekaterina Polyakova - CEO, G2Q Computing
Michele Cattelan - Senior Quantum Algorithms Developer, G2Q Computing
Leveraging proven HPC scheduling and workflow orchestration solutions and innovative quantum algorithms learn how Altair and G2Q built a hybrid classical-quantum platform to better address the unique challenges of financial fraud detection.
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm | Transforming Computational Fluid Dynamics with GPUs
Martin Feyereisen - Master Cloud Architect, Oracle
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | AI Factories: HPCWorks Enabling Scalable AI
William Bryce - SVP Product Management, Altair
HPCWorks introduces the concept of AI Factories which are industrial-scale systems designed to convert raw data into continuous intelligence through training, inference, and automation. AI Factories enable organizations to scale AI workloads efficiently, delivering real-time insights, improved accuracy, and continuous optimization. They also support AI sovereignty, ensuring data control, and security. With integrated tools for Jupyter notebook as a service and dynamic, vendor-agnostic cloud scaling, HPCWorks provides a unified framework for AI Factories with flexibility, performance, and cost efficiency.
10:30 am - 10:45 am | Insight Pro: Monitoring and Reporting for HPCWorks
William Bryce - SVP Product Management, Altair
HPCWorks Insight Pro is a monitoring and reporting solution that provides complete visibility into HPC environments; enabling users to track how compute resources are being used, by whom, and for what purpose—helping identify inefficiencies, support proactive troubleshooting, and simplify chargeback reporting. With real-time dashboards, historical analytics, and seamless integration with Altair’s workload managers, Insight Pro empowers HPC teams to manage performance, cost, and utilization with clarity and precision.
11:00 am - 11:15 am | PBS Case Study
Tony McEvoy – IT Project Manager, MCE Management Services UK
Presentation, from a Project Managers perspective, of a real-life case study from the UK, showing client set-up, why PBS was chosen and some basic features of the product suite.
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | OpenRadioss with Cornelis Scale-out Networking
James Erwin - Principle Performance Engineer, Cornelis Networks
Crash simulations demand high-resolution models and tightly-coupled parallel performance—often limited by network bottlenecks. This talk explores how the Cornelis CN5000 Omni-Path end to end networking solution addresses these challenges through architectural innovations. We present OpenRadioss benchmarks and scaling studies across real-world automotive and aerospace workloads.
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | The Invisible Power of Innovation: Leveraging Agentic AI to Amplify the Power of HPC
Cameron Brunner - Senior Director HPC Engineering, Altair
We will share our vision for applying Agentic AI to amplify the power of HPC by enhancing its ability to align computational utilization with organizational goals, drive smarter resource management, and maximize the strategic impact of HPC in your organization.
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | GPU-Powered CAE with Altair One™ on Microsoft Azure®, featuring NVIDIA® GPUs
Jason Scheffelmaer - Senior Technical Program Manager, HPC+AI, Microsoft
Engineering innovation thrives on speed, scale, and flexibility — and that’s exactly what Altair One on Microsoft Azure delivers. In this session, learn how leading organizations are transforming simulation-driven design by leveraging GPU-accelerated computing through Altair One’s secure, on-demand cloud platform powered by NVIDIA GPUs on Microsoft Azure. From reducing simulation turnaround times to enabling complex multi-physics workloads and AI-driven design exploration, this joint solution removes traditional HPC barriers and empowers teams to focus on what matters most: creating better products, faster. Discover how Altair and Microsoft are redefining what’s possible for next-generation engineering in the cloud.
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Altair Unlimited: Turn-Key HPC Appliance for Engineering, AI and Data Science
Rick Watkins - Vice President, Appliance and Cloud Solutions, Altair
The Altair Unlimited appliance portfolio is the latest extension of the Digital Thread into cloud computing and AI. It includes turn-key HPC solutions to help engineers, designers and data scientists radically enhance their simulation and AI capabilities. By delivering a coordinated packages of HPC hardware, engineering and AI software and full-service sysadmin support, we enable our customers to save development time, reduce costs and innovate more than ever before.
