Altair One

Altair One Home provides quick and easy access to your pinned applications, running desktops, recent jobs and files, and default and shared appliance statuses.

Primary Navigation

The Altair One Home navigation provides access to applications and its functionalities for managing, analyzing and collaborating on computational tasks. Here is a brief info on each item on the menu:
Figure 1. Primary Navigation Pane


  • Home: The Altair One Home page where you can view your recent activities, access quick links, and get an overview of resources.
  • Drive: Store, access, and manage your file and folders using Altair Drive storage service for hosting files in the cloud.
  • Applications: This section provides access to various Altair applications that can be used for simulations, modeling, and visualization.
  • Appliances: Pre-configured virtual machines with specific software and settings to handle computational tasks, allowing you to run jobs without local setup.
  • Jobs: A job management tool that enables you to submit, monitor, and manage computational jobs, which are simulations or analyses that run on cloud resources.
  • Desktops: You can access virtual desktop environments to use software applications hosted in the cloud.
  • Teams: A collaborative space for the team members to work together and share resources

Secondary Navigation

The secondary navigation pane updates are based on the selection in the primary navigation pane. The secondary pane offers options such as Search, Filter, and View as, allowing users to refine application related views and functionalities further.
Figure 2. Secondary Navigation Pane


Pinned Applications

This section provides all the applications you pinned from the Applications list. Select an application to launch a remote session and submit a job.

Figure 3. Pinned Applications

Pinned Applications

For more information, refer to Pin an Application

View Appliance Status

View the appliance status of default and the shared appliances. The appliance status displays the number of units used and available nodes, CPUs, GPUs, Desktops, and Memory. For more details on appliances usage refer to Altair Appliances.
Figure 4. Appliance Status


Running Desktops

This section allows you to view running desktops sessions you recently launched and create a new desktop session. For more information refer to Desktops.

Figure 5. Running Desktops

Running Desktops

You can terminate a running desktop session or reconnect to it.

Recent Files

This section provides all the files you recently accessed and Altair Drive storage space usage.

Figure 6. View recently accessed files in Altair Drive

Recent Files and Folders

Right-click a file and choose Show File location to open the file in Altair Drive. You can also download a file to your default download location.

To view the files shared with you recently click Shared with me.

Recent Jobs

This section provides a list of your recent jobs with their status, the application name used to run the job, and the duration of each job. Click on the Job Name link to view the summary of a job.

Figure 7. View recently submitted jobs

Recent Jobs