<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
software	O
company	O
that	O
developed	O
workload	O
management	O
and	O
cloud	O
management	O
products	O
for	O
compute-intensive	O
applications	O
in	O
the	O
data	O
center	O
and	O
across	O
public	O
,	O
private	O
,	O
and	O
hybrid	O
clouds	O
,	O
before	O
being	O
acquired	O
by	O
Altair	O
Engineering	O
in	O
September	O
2020	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
software	O
manages	O
diverse	O
application	O
workloads	O
and	O
resources	O
,	O
helping	O
enterprises	O
scale	O
and	O
automate	O
infrastructure	O
to	O
maximize	O
efficiency	O
and	O
throughput	O
while	O
also	O
helping	O
them	O
manage	O
cloud	O
spending	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
’s	O
primary	O
market	O
was	O
High	B-Architecture
Performance	I-Architecture
Computing	I-Architecture
(	O
HPC	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
software	O
was	O
used	O
to	O
manage	O
large-scale	O
HPC	O
,	O
analytic	O
,	O
and	O
machine	O
learning	O
applications	O
across	O
these	O
industries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
developed	O
,	O
sold	O
,	O
and	O
supported	O
Univa	B-Operating_System
Grid	I-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
software	O
,	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
's	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
popular	O
Grid	B-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
workload	O
manager	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
also	O
offered	O
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
,	O
a	O
solution	O
providing	O
cloud	O
migration	O
,	O
cloud	O
automation	O
,	O
and	O
cloud	O
spend	O
management	O
for	O
users	O
of	O
Univa	B-Operating_System
Grid	I-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
announced	O
in	O
January	O
2011	O
that	O
it	O
hired	O
personnel	O
formerly	O
working	O
for	O
Oracle	B-Application
and	O
Sun	O
Microsystems	O
on	O
Grid	B-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
April	O
12	O
,	O
2011	O
,	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
rolled	O
out	O
its	O
initial	O
commercial	O
release	O
of	O
Univa	B-Operating_System
Grid	I-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
based	O
on	O
open	B-License
source	I-License
Grid	B-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
October	O
22	O
,	O
2013	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
announced	O
it	O
acquired	O
the	O
intellectual	O
property	O
,	O
copyrights	O
and	O
trademarks	O
pertaining	O
to	O
the	O
Grid	B-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
technology	O
from	O
Oracle	B-Application
and	O
that	O
it	O
would	O
support	O
Oracle	B-Operating_System
Grid	I-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
customers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
announced	O
in	O
May	O
2016	O
,	O
a	O
new	O
business	O
unit	O
with	O
products	O
enabling	O
enterprises	O
to	O
easily	O
migrate	O
to	O
the	O
cloud	O
or	O
deploy	O
hybrid	O
clouds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Among	O
the	O
public	O
clouds	O
supported	O
by	O
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
are	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
(	O
AWS	B-Application
)	O
,	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
provides	O
cloud	O
automation	O
features	O
to	O
dynamically	O
configure	O
cloud-based	B-Architecture
Univa	B-Operating_System
Grid	I-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
clusters	O
and	O
scale	O
them	O
based	O
on	O
application	O
workloads	O
and	O
configurable	O
policies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
also	O
provides	O
cloud	O
spend	O
management	O
features	O
to	O
help	O
organizations	O
monitor	O
and	O
manage	O
cloud	O
spending	O
by	O
extracting	O
information	O
from	O
cloud-specific	O
APIs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Organizations	O
can	O
use	O
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
to	O
manage	O
spending	O
by	O
project	O
,	O
group	O
,	O
department	O
,	O
and	O
cost-center	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
enhanced	O
both	O
Univa	B-Operating_System
Grid	I-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
and	O
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
,	O
supporting	O
new	O
operating	O
environments	O
,	O
machine	O
architectures	O
,	O
and	O
cloud	O
providers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Key	O
areas	O
of	O
focus	O
for	O
both	O
Univa	B-Operating_System
Grid	I-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
and	O
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
have	O
been	O
around	O
performance	O
and	O
scalability	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Both	O
were	O
demonstrated	O
by	O
a	O
well-publicized	O
one	O
million	O
core	O
cluster	O
deployment	O
in	O
AWS	B-Application
announced	O
in	O
June	O
2018	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
areas	O
of	O
focus	O
have	O
been	O
around	O
managing	O
containerized	O
and	O
GPU-aware	O
application	O
workloads	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
offered	O
support	O
services	O
,	O
education	O
services	O
,	O
and	O
consulting	O
services	O
related	O
to	O
installation	O
,	O
tuning	O
,	O
and	O
configuration	O
for	O
all	O
of	O
its	O
products	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
in	O
2004	O
under	O
the	O
name	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
Corporation	I-General_Concept
by	O
Carl	O
Kesselman	O
,	O
Ian	O
Foster	O
,	O
and	O
Steve	O
Tuecke	O
and	O
was	O
at	O
that	O
time	O
primarily	O
known	O
for	O
providing	O
open	B-License
source	I-License
products	O
and	O
technical	O
support	O
based	O
around	O
the	O
Globus	O
Toolkit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
September	O
17	O
,	O
2007	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
that	O
it	O
would	O
merge	O
with	O
the	O
Austin	O
,	O
Texas-based	O
United	B-Operating_System
Devices	I-Operating_System
and	O
operate	O
under	O
the	O
new	O
name	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
UD	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
operated	O
as	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
UD	I-General_Concept
until	O
formally	O
dropping	O
"	O
UD	O
"	O
and	O
returning	O
to	O
common	O
use	O
of	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
Corporation	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Univa	B-General_Concept
announced	O
,	O
on	O
January	O
17	O
,	O
2011	O
,	O
that	O
it	O
had	O
hired	O
the	O
principal	O
and	O
founding	O
engineers	O
of	O
the	O
Grid	B-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
team	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
Oct	O
22	O
,	O
2013	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
announced	O
that	O
it	O
had	O
acquired	O
the	O
intellectual	O
property	O
as	O
well	O
the	O
copyrights	O
and	O
trademarks	O
pertaining	O
to	O
the	O
Grid	B-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
technology	O
from	O
Oracle	B-Application
and	O
trademarks	O
pertaining	O
to	O
the	O
Grid	B-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
technology	O
from	O
Oracle	B-Application
and	O
that	O
it	O
will	O
take	O
over	O
supporting	O
Oracle	B-Operating_System
Grid	I-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
customers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2014	O
,	O
a	O
technical	O
partnership	O
between	O
Sahara	O
Force	O
India	O
Formula	O
One	O
Team	O
and	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
was	O
announced	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2016	O
,	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
announced	O
a	O
new	O
business	O
unit	O
,	O
Navops	B-General_Concept
with	O
a	O
product	O
line	O
based	O
on	O
its	O
Grid	B-Operating_System
Engine	I-Operating_System
cluster	O
workload	O
scheduling	O
technology	O
previously	O
developed	O
at	O
Sun	O
Microsystems	O
and	O
later	O
acquired	O
by	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
from	O
Oracle	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
enables	O
enterprises	O
to	O
migrate	O
workloads	O
to	O
cloud	O
or	O
hybrid	O
cloud	O
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2018	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
open-sources	B-License
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
(	O
née	O
Unicloud	O
)	O
as	O
Project	O
Tortuga	O
under	O
an	O
Apache	B-Application
2.0	I-Application
license	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2019	O
,	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
announced	O
enhancements	O
to	O
Navops	B-General_Concept
Launch	O
in	O
a	O
2.0	O
release	O
,	O
including	O
an	O
enhanced	O
UI	O
,	O
improved	O
automation	O
,	O
and	O
spend	O
management	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2020	O
,	O
Altair	O
Engineering	O
,	O
a	O
global	O
technology	O
company	O
providing	O
solutions	O
in	O
data	O
analytics	O
,	O
product	O
development	O
,	O
and	O
high-performance	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
(	O
HPC	O
)	O
acquired	O
Univa	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
