Accelerating CAE Simulation
Computer-aided engineering (CAE) is essential to modern manufacturing. As designs become more sophisticated, engineers need to simulate larger assemblies, apply finer meshes, and account for complex physics interactions, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), structural mechanics, heat transfer, and electromagnetics (EM).
In June 2025, engineers from Altair and Microsoft collaborated on one of our most ambitious benchmarks to date, running 20 tests across 14 models using Altair GPU-enabled solvers on Microsoft Azure.
This article, explains the critical role of GPUs in CAE, showcase the benefits of running simulations on the latest Azure GPU-accelerated instances, and explain how design and engineering teams can get started with Altair One®, Altair’s cloud innovation gateway. With Altair One, engineers can collaborate more effectively and easily launch and share complete design, simulation, and analysis environments in the Azure cloud.