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Altair Material Data Center
Altair^® Material Data Center^TM (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
AMDC Air Gap On-Prem Installation
An Air Gap AMDC On-Prem Installation is a self-contained solution that can be deployed within a customer's network and does not need connection to the internet or external networks. The installer includes all necessary packages, dependencies, and required for an on-premise licensing and authentication, ensuring zero external network links.
Prerequisites
To ensure a smooth and successful installation of the AMDC, please ensure the availability of the following requirements before beginning the process.

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Altair Material Data Center
Altair^® Material Data Center^TM (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
- Launch AMDC
  Altair Material Data Center is a web-based tool accessible through all leading browsers. Launch the application to access the Altair material data. You can customize and launch the application from Favorite Apps, on the Altair One Home page.
- AMDC Licenses
  AMDC provides license types such as Guest User, Viewer, Explorer, and ExplorerPlus. These are supported by Named User Licenses and Altair Units-based License models.
- Stick-Slip Material Database
  The Stick-Slip Database provides access to over 11,000 individual measurements covering a wide range of common materials available on the market.
- Integrated Desktop Applications
  Get instant access to an exhaustive database with thousands of simulation ready materials directly from within Altair desktop applications! This seamless integration automatically lists materials suitable for the application and lets users look up, search, compare and download CAE-ready material cards directly in the software.
- Whats New
  Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair Material Data Center.
- Tutorials
  Discover the features of AMDC with step by step tutorials and videos.
- Search Materials
  Search a material or a list of materials using quick search, advanced search or scatter plots.
- Compare Materials
  Select one or more materials to compare the chosen materials data.
- Filter Materials
  Browse and filter materials using the predefined categories as filters in the left navigation pane that most suit your requirements.
- Similar Materials
  Find similar materials in terms of mechanical, thermal, or electrical properties.
- View Material Details
  Visualize advanced and accurate material properties and curves. Also, view material impact using Global Warming Potential (GWP) and set your data preferences.
- Export Material Data
  Export material data sheets with plots as a PDF and CAE simulation-ready material cards to your workstation or Altair Drive.
- Share Material Data
  Share material information in an email, document or message. Recipients of the link can view the material information in AMDC.
- Materials Copilot
  AI assistant for AMDC.
- Customize Materials Data View
  Customize the materials data in table view. Add, remove material properties as table columns, reorder the columns, and sort them.
- Set AMDC Theme
  Set theme of AMDC.
- Manage Favorites
  Create and maintain different lists of favorite materials to quickly access from the catalog or maintain a list of materials for your project.
- Set Preferences
  Update your material database view preferences.
- AMDC Air Gap On-Prem Installation
  An Air Gap AMDC On-Prem Installation is a self-contained solution that can be deployed within a customer's network and does not need connection to the internet or external networks. The installer includes all necessary packages, dependencies, and required for an on-premise licensing and authentication, ensuring zero external network links.
  - Prerequisites
    To ensure a smooth and successful installation of the AMDC, please ensure the availability of the following requirements before beginning the process.
  - On-Prem Installation
    This task outlines the steps for installing the AMDC in an air-gapped environment.
- Access AMDC Offline
  Once the installation is complete, you must retrieve the administrator credentials.
- AMDC Private Database
  An administrator is provided access to the AMDC Dashboard to access specfic administrative related tasks to maintain up to date information in the Altair Material Database.
- AMDC Archived Release Notes
  Here are the release notes for features and updates to Altair Material Data Center.

Prerequisites

To ensure a smooth and successful installation of the AMDC, please ensure the availability of the following requirements before beginning the process.

Domain Certificates

The AMDC platform requires a dedicated domain and valid security certificates.

Domain Certificates

Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN): A unique domain name to host the AMDC platform (e.g., my_domain.com).
DNS Records: The installer will automatically create the following DNS records under your FQDN.
A record: amdc.my_domain.com
CNAMErecords:
- access-amdc.<my_domain.com>
- registry-amdc.my_domain.com
- nats-wss-amdc.my_domain.com
- nats-amdc.my_domain.com
- swfs-amdc.my_domain.com
- prometheus-amdc.my_domain.com
- grafana-amdc.my_domain.com
- alertmanager-amdc.my_domain.com
x509 Certificates: Requires a set of x509 certificates which includes:
- Wildcard certificate is recommended.
- Intermediate CA certificate.
  Note: If you have any questions about the certificates, please contact your IT team for help.

A Dedicated Server

A dedicated physical machine or virtual machine

with an internal LAN connection (no Internet access required) that will host the AMDC. SSH access and browser access (via HTTP/HTTPS) to this machine are mandatory.

Network Ports and Services

Network ports must be opened to allow communication between services and external users.

Table 1. Inbound Firewall Rules:
Protocol	Port(s)	Source	Destination	Description
TCP	80, 443	External	Servers	Required for Altair One external service endpoints (HTTP/HTTPS access).
TCP	6443	Agents	Servers	Required for K3s supervisor and Kubernetes API Server.
TCP	10250	All	All nodes	Required for Kubelet metrics.
UDP	8472	All	All nodes	Required, for Flannel VXLAN

Outbound Traffic:

All outbound traffic must be allowed from the installation environment.

Operating System

The following are the supported operating systems:

Rocky Linux version 8 and 9
Red Hat Linux version 8 and 9
Oracle Linux version 8 and 9

Hardware Specifications

CPU: 8 cores
RAM: 64 GB RAM
Disk Space: 200 GB

Software Packages

The installer will install the following software packages on the server:

K3s
Restic
Helm with the diff and secrets plugins
Git
epel-release
curl
SOPS
jq and yq