As decreasing hardware prices and attractive business models are democratizing high-performance computing (HPC) resources in the cloud, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) now have greater computing flexibility than ever before. 

1. Innovation Intelligence®
Altair Leveraging Disruptive Cloud
Technologies
Rob Walsh Vice President Business
Development

2. TIME
ITCAPACITY
Year One
Fixed Cost of IT-
Capacities
Load Forecast
Wasted compute capacity
Excess, that can leverage cloud based resources
Year Two

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Cloud decision points
• Location of engineering teams and HPC resources (cloud based data
centers or traditional data centers)
• Bandwidth from Engineering centers
• The total cost of HPC cloud resources
• Public clouds will always be cheaper than traditional IT hosters
• The way you save money in public clouds is by turning off unneeded resources
• Types of Analysis (chose the right type of workload)
• Linear (high memory)
• Explicit (high core count)
• DOE (high core count
• Large scale jobs
• Access to Solver licenses

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Potential Public Cloud benefits
• Agility
• The ability to scale large numbers of servers in minutes for DOE runs (and turn
off)
• Solve long queue wait time by adding resources as needed
• Redundancy of public cloud resources (everything is designed to fail and recover
well)
• Shorten over all run time for job (queue time, run time, result retrieval)
• Potential cost saving
• The ability to pay for what you use, when you are using it
• The ability to build data center for the mean not the max

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When the cloud does not make sense
• If Engineering centers do not have appropriate infrastructure
• Enough Bandwidth
• Location of cloud based resources
• Total turn around time is longer then on premises
• Cloud based resources can not support the application
• Cost
• If you use the resources 24/7/365 the cost benefit goes away
• 3rd Party license cost out of line with cloud based model and could make the cloud
cost prohibitive

6. The Future is available today: Simulate Everywhere
HyperWorks
Unlimited
Virtual
Appliance
Bursting to 3rd
Party
Public Cloud
Solutions
Private
LAN
HyperWorks Unlimited
Appliance
HyperWorks
Solvers
Altair Enterprise tools
<•••>

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HyperWorks Unlimited Options
HyperWorks Unlimited
Physical Appliance Virtual Appliance
On Premises Off Premises
Lease | Roll-in | Connect | Simulate | Innovate Rent | Sign-in | Simulate | Innovate
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HyperWorks Unlimited Simulation Appliance
“Our vision is to radically change the way organizations
design products and make decisions.”
Lease | Roll-in |Connect | Simulate | Innovate
HyperWorks Unlimited TM
 State-of-the art, managed private HPC appliance
 Attractively priced for lease
 Fully configured hardware and software
 Unlimited use of all Altair software
System and Application Software Integration Support
Application Software
Web / Portal Services
Workload Management
Cluster Management / Operating System
Interconnect (Storage /
Compute)Storage
Compute
Cores

9. HPC on AWS/Azure (Virtual HWUL)
All in the Cloud
• Run HPC jobs without
managing or maintaining a
cluster
• Guaranteed SLAs
• Pay as you go, only for
what you use
Compute Nodes in AWS/Azure
9
Public Cloud
Compute Instances
PBS/Compute MGR Head Node
Compute MGR (web based)

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HyperWorks Unlimited
Benefits Description
Physical
Appliance
Virtual
Appliance
Agility
Simulate Everywhere-remote
modeling, job management/
monitoring, visualization, & data
management
X X
Eliminates the barriers to securely
access HPC hardware and
software
X X
Time for deployment 8 to 10 Weeks Minutes
Value
Pre-packaged, fully configured
CAE Cloud solutions
X X
Altair Managed, no IT support
needed
X X
Unlimited use of Altair products
per node
Yearly Lease Monthly Rent
Flexibility
Dynamically scales to support
varying CAE demand
Limited by physical
resources
X
Bring your own license X Not available
OpEx vs CapEx OpEx OpEx

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Altair conclusions
• A duel strategy with Hybrid Cloud and traditional HPC is the optimal
solution for most larger clients
• Each client/locations present unique requirements and challenges that
need to be addressed
• Altair is pursuing a heterogeneous approach for our technology and
business models to match
• Private cloud (internal HPC resources)
• Public cloud (bursting from traditional HPC)
• SaaS (Public cloud managed wholly by Altair)

12. A culture of innovation