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Altair Enhances Product Suite With
Veridian Technology
Altair Engineering Inc., a global leader in engineering, consulting and
high
performance computing technology, announced that it has acquired portable
batch system (PBS) technology, including PBS Pro and Open PBS workload
management software and related assets from Arlington, Va.-based
Veridian
Corp.
The acquisition allows Altair to broaden its product suite to address new
markets requiring greater computational resources in the life sciences,
energy, research, logistics, manufacturing and financial industries. PBS Pro
technology will become the flagship product of Altair's Enterprise Computing
business line, which provides software and consulting services to help
companies with high-performance computing requirements achieve maximum return
on their technology investments.
PBS Pro and Open PBS technologies help Altair's customers optimize the
utilization of enterprise computing environments by intelligently aggregating
and scheduling computational resources. Key benefits of PBS Pro include:
- Increased utilization of current computing and network resources
- Reduced burden on system administrators so they can focus on other
activities
- Enhanced understanding of computational requirements and user needs for
future capacity planning
- Expandable distribution of production workloads across wide-area
networks to maximize utilization
- Logical organization of physically separate computing systems
"This acquisition is an extension of Altair's business strategy to provide
a variety of industries with solutions for high performance computing and
innovative product engineering and design," said Jim Scapa, president and
chief executive officer of Altair. "Automation, numerical methods for
optimization and robust design are dramatically putting a constraint on
computing resources in almost every industry, from product development to
bioinformatics. PBS Pro technology addresses these market constraints and will
help to grow the Altair customer base accordingly."
Over the past year, Altair has been a value-added reseller and
implementation partner of Veridian's PBS Pro. Clients using PBS Pro include
the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, U.S. Department of Energy, Lockheed-
Martin Corporation, the Boeing Company and the Ford Motor Company to improve
the computing capacity and efficiency of each organization.
Altair has been working with Ford Motor Company's Numerically Intensive
Computing (NIC) Department to leverage PBS Pro workload management software to
increase job execution efficiency and improve service levels to NIC customers.
Altair's continued collaboration and support has helped Ford to effectively
maximize their capital investments in high performance computers.
As part of the agreement, the PBS development team, software and technical
development will remain in Mountain View, Calif. headed by Dr. Bill Nitzberg,
managing director and chief technology officer for Altair Grid Technologies.
Dr. Nitzberg joins the company with over 20 years of experience in industry
and research computing and is a member of the Steering Group and Director of
the Scheduling and Resource Management Area of the Global Grid Forum.
Sales, marketing, customer support and distribution of PBS products will
be managed from Altair's world headquarters in Troy, Mich. by Michael M.
Humphrey, Vice President of Altair's Enterprise Computing Business Line.
About PBS Pro
PBS Pro is the commercial version of the Portable Batch System (PBS),
originally developed to manage aerospace computing resources at the NASA Ames
Research Center. PBS Pro is the leader in high performance workload management
and the de-facto standard for batch queuing on LINUX clusters.
About Altair Engineering
Through engineering, consulting and high performance computing
technologies,
Altair Engineering increases innovation for more than 1,500 clients around the
globe. Founded in 1985, Altair's unparalleled knowledge and expertise in
product development and manufacturing extend throughout North America, Europe
and Asia. Altair specializes in the development of high-end, open CAE software
solutions for modeling, visualization, optimization and process
automation.
Web site: www.altair.com
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