"This agreement affirms our long-term relationship with Sun and our desire to work with them to give our customers powerful CAE solution choices",� stated Michael Humphrey, Altair vice president of partner programs. "We're also very pleased that Sun is a global Gold Sponsor for our HyperWorks Technology Conference (HTC) series this year, which will be held at locations around the world from July to November."

Altair has already modified the MPP and SMP versions of RADIOSS, as well as the OptiStruct and MotionSolve codes, to run on the Solaris 10 OS and provide compatibility with Solaris containers and future releases of the operating system. Altair has also received hardware and technical support from Sun.

"Sun is very pleased to collaborate with Altair in enabling HyperWorks users to take advantage of the Solaris 10 OS",� stated Steve Kimmey, HPC Community Manager of Sun Microsystems. "Running HyperWorks on the Solaris 10 OS gives engineers and designers a strong combination of reliability and performance that supports innovation and productivity."

RADIOSS, a linear/non-linear finite-element solver, is widely used for dynamic simulations. OptiStruct facilitates analysis by predicting optimal shapes early in the design process. MotionSolve provides powerful multi-body systems analysis based on a revolutionary new formulation technique.