album by title fight see hyperview album . this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . september 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message altair engineering inc. type private industry cae software product design and development services and grid computing founded troy michigan united states 1985 headquarters troy michigan united states key people jim scapa founder president and ceo jim brancheau cto brett chouinard coo products see complete products listing . number of employees 1 500 2012 website www.altair.com altair engineering is an american product design and development engineering software and cloud computing software company . altair was founded by james r 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 . contents 1 organization 2 portfolio 3 history 4 alternative software 4.1 free and open source software 4.2 proprietary software 5 references 6 external links organization edit altair is divided into three business divisions product design pd hyperworks cae software hw and pbs works pbs . portfolio edit the principal product offerings from altair s commercial software division is its hyperworks line of software including optistruct structural analysis solver linear and non linear ; solution for structural design and optimization radioss structural analysis solver highly non linear problems under dynamic loadings ; an industry standard for automotive crash and impact analysis motionview solver neutral multi body pre processor motionsolve multi body solver ; an integrated solution to analyze and optimize multi body system performance hyperxtrude metal & polymer extrusion solver ; an advanced solver for manufacturing process simulations and validations hyperform metal forming solver hypermesh hypercrash simlab hyperview hypergraph cae pre & post processing 1 hyperstudy design of experiments and multi disciplinary design optimization hypermath mathematical analysis environment acusolve general purpose finite element based cfd solver feko 3d electromagnetic solver the cae data and process management solutions altair data manager altair process manager the enterprise computing division develops and manages pbs professional software developed from openpbs . subsidiaries of altair engineering ilumisys produces led lighting products 2 3 altair owned companies solidthinking industrial design software hiqube business intelligence software altair productdesign product innovation consulting history edit altair was established in 1985 . in 1990 hypermesh was released . in 1994 altair receives industryweek s technology of the year award for optistruct . 4 during the 2008 economy crisis altair started a program to offer free training on its product for unemployed persons in michigan . 5 in september 2010 altair purchased a 136 000 square foot 12 600 m2 annex facility in troy to initially house altair s subsidiary ilumisys inc. altair also acquired simlab in october 2011 . 6 2011 began with another acquisition acusim software with their cfd solver acusolve . 7 in september 2011 altair productdesign unveiled busolution a hybrid hydraulic bus . 8 9 10 in june 2014 altair acquired em software & systems s.a. pty ltd and its international distributor offices in the united states germany and china with their electromagnetic simulation software feko . 11 12 13 alternative software edit free and open source software edit advanced simulation library 14 clawpack 15 code saturne gpl coolfluid lgplv3 16 deal.ii 17 featool multiphysics 18 freecfd 19 gerris flow solver 20 openfoam 21 openfvm 22 palabos flow solver 23 su2 code lgpl 24 proprietary software edit comsol multiphysics adina cfd ansys cfx ansys fluent avl fire azore 25 cfd 26 pumplinx star ccm kiva software relap5 3d powerflow foampro iconcfd cradle 27 sc tetra 28 cradle scstream 29 cradle heat designer 30 references edit chorofas visual programming technology 1997 p196 the university of illinois in 1990 developed hyperview for intel s ipsc 2 hypercube ilumisys inc. . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 2012 12 02 . tom henderson 2009 11 11 . ilumisys vies to be no. 1 led maker . crain s detroit business . retrieved 2012 12 02 . john teresko 1994 12 19 . altair computing inc. troy mich. . industryweek . retrieved 2012 12 02 . sherri begin welch 2008 12 04 . altair offering free training software licenses for unemployed engineers . crain s detroit business . retrieved 2008 12 05 . 1 dead link altair engineering acquires acusim software 2 in a series . deskeng.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . keith barry 2011 11 09 . new hybrids will pump it up . wired . retrieved 2012 12 02 . josh cable 2011 09 08 . series hybrid hydraulic transit bus promises fuel cost savings . industry week . retrieved 2012 12 02 . josh cable 2011 11 16 . big green machines . industry week . retrieved 2012 12 02 . altair and em software & systems complete deal . deskeng.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . altair and em software & systems s.a. close deal . feko.info . 2014 06 24 . retrieved 2016 09 27 . em software & systems . emss.co.za . retrieved 2016 09 27 . advanced simulation library . asl.org.il . retrieved 2016 09 27 . clawpack . depts.washington.edu . 2013 01 21 . retrieved 2016 09 27 . andrealani . home andrealani coolfluid wiki github . github.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . archived copy . archived from the original on 8 june 2012 . retrieved 2012 08 05 . featool multiphysics matlab fem finite element physics simulation toolbox . featool.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . . freecfd.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . gerris flow solver . gfs.sf.net . retrieved 2016 09 27 . openfoam & 174 the open source computational fluid dynamics cfd toolbox . openfoam.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . openfvm download . sourceforge.net . retrieved 2016 09 27 . home . palabos.org . retrieved 2016 09 27 . aerospace design laboratory aeronautics and astronautics department stanford university . su2 the open source cfd code . su2.stanford.edu . doi 10.1016 j.compfluid .2016.02.003 . retrieved 2016 09 27 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link welcome to azore technologies llc azore technologies llc . azoretechnologies.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . metacomp technologies inc . metacomptech.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . cfd software cradle co. ltd . cradle cfd.com in japanese . retrieved 2016 09 27 . cs1 maint unrecognized language link sc tetra products software cradle co. ltd . cradle cfd.com in japanese . 1994 12 01 . retrieved 2016 09 27 . cs1 maint unrecognized language link archived copy . archived from the original on 6 march 2015 . retrieved 2015 03 21 . heatdesigner products software cradle co. ltd . cradle cfd.com in japanese . 1994 12 01 . retrieved 2016 09 27 . cs1 maint unrecognized language link external links edit official website hyperworks open architecture cae solution . altairhyperworks.com . 2016 09 22 . retrieved 2016 09 27 . global leader in hpc workload management . pbs works . 2015 10 19 . retrieved 2016 09 27 . altair productdesign . altair productdesign . retrieved 2016 09 27 . altair . hyperworksalliance.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . design software solutions . solidthinking . 2013 06 24 . retrieved 2016 09 27 . iis windows server . ilumisys.com . retrieved 2016 09 27 . hyperworks cae . hyperworks.compmechlab.ru . retrieved 2016 09 27 . feko em simulation software . feko.info . retrieved 2016 09 27 . v t e cae software open source advanced simulation library calculix code aster code saturne elmer fenics freefem gerris moose open cascade technology openfoam qblade salome su2 vortexje proprietary actran ansys abaqus adina autodesk simulation altair avl catia ptc creo comsol multiphysics cst 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