Altair deal adds French firm to engineering portfolio.(Information Technology)(Altair Engineering Inc acquires Mecalog)

Automotive News, October, 2006 by Moran, Tim

Byline: Tim Moran

The computing power needed to run crash simulations and other massive data tasks will be available to clients of Altair Engineering Inc. (altair.com) now that it has acquired the French company Mecalog.

Altair announced the closing of the deal in September. Terms were not disclosed.

The acquisition was first announced in June after about a year of negotiations.

Mecalog's specialty is performing the calculations needed to understand and model what are called nonlinear events, in which the results can't be easily predicted.

The shape that a kernel of popcorn will take when it pops is an example of a nonlinear event. Car crash tests and virtual modeling of what happens during a crash are examples of such...

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