TROY, MI, Mar 20, 2025 – Altair has announced a technical integration between the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time digital twins and the Altair One cloud innovation gateway. The integration uses GPU acceleration, NVIDIA NIM microservices, and NVIDIA Omniverse technologies to allow customers to visualize, build, edit, and interact with simulations and digital twins in a shared turnkey environment. It helps organizations leverage the potential of Altair’s simulation, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to drive innovations.
“Integrating NVIDIA Blackwell acceleration, AI and Omniverse technologies into Altair One will allow Altair users to take another leap forward in their digital engineering and digital transformation efforts,” said Sam Mahalingam, chief technology officer, Altair. “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. Moreover, it is yet another example of how Altair is continuing to lead in all things digital engineering and digital twin.”
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 function as a next-level digital workspace for professionals in all industries. Users benefit from high-end cloud rendering and streaming capabilities that simplify how software components work together in systems used for AI, data processing, and graphics computing. The integration will open new avenues for innovation and collaboration in 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 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 engineering workflows.”
The integration allows users to access the Omniverse Blueprint with minimal effort. Users who have created digital twins with the Omniverse Blueprint in Altair One can deploy them in cloud-based or on-premises environments without complications. Altair One organizes all data with key metadata, enabling datasets to expand through multiple design iterations. This process supports model development in tools like Altair PhysicsAI, which reduces analysis time from hours or days to just minutes or seconds.
In addition to the enhancements above, Altair OptiStruct features the cuDSS GPU-accelerated Direct Sparse Solver library to improve performance on CPU and GPU-accelerated architectures and Altair EDEM will soon support the NVIDIA Grace architecture.
Altair has also announced the performance on NVIDIA Blackwell for Altair ultraFluidX, Altair nanoFluidX, and EDEM, demonstrating up to 1.6x improvement on NVIDIA DGX B200. For EDEM, this represents a 40x speed increase compared to 32 CPUs.
Source: Altair
About Altair
Altair Engineering Inc., founded in 1985 and headquartered in Troy, MI, is a computational science and AI leader. The company offers software and cloud solutions across various domains, including product development, high-performance computing (HPC), simulation, AI, and data analytics. Altair’s comprehensive, open-architecture platforms empower organizations to design more efficient and sustainable products and processes. Altair has established itself as a key player in engineering and enterprise analytics, serving automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing industries. In 2024, Siemens announced its agreement to acquire Altair for $10.6 billion, aiming to strengthen its position in industrial software.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corp. is an American tech company headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Renowned for designing and manufacturing graphics processing units (GPUs), NVIDIA’s innovations have significantly impacted various sectors. The company’s products and services cater to industries such as gaming, where its GPUs enhance visual experiences; artificial intelligence (AI), providing high-performance computing solutions; automotive, contributing to autonomous vehicle technologies; and robotics, offering advanced AI perception and simulation tools. Over its more than three decades in business, NVIDIA has experienced substantial growth. In the fiscal quarter ending January 2025, the company reported record revenue of $39.3 billion and a net income of $22.1 billion. NVIDIA’s headquarters, designed to facilitate a flat organizational structure, emphasizes information flow and harmony between leadership and employees.