NVIDIA partners with CAE vendors for fast digital twins

NVIDIA has announced that major computer-aided engineering (CAE) software vendors, such as Ansys, Altair, Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys, are enhancing their simulation tools using the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, achieving up to 50 times faster performance.

Industry sectors, including automotive, aerospace, energy, manufacturing, and life sciences, can expect to benefit from reduced product development time, cost efficiencies, and improved design accuracy while maintaining energy efficiency through the accelerated software solutions.

"CUDA-accelerated physical simulation on NVIDIA Blackwell has enhanced real-time digital twins and is reimagining the entire engineering process," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "The day is coming when virtually all products will be created and brought to life as a digital twin long before it is realized physically."

The broader ecosystem of software providers integrating Blackwell into their platforms includes companies like Altair, BeyondMath, COMSOL, ENGYS, Flexcompute, Luminary Cloud, and several others. These integrators can now offer their customers real-time interactive digital twins accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell.

Cadence has applied the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell-accelerated systems to overcome challenges in computational fluid dynamics, particularly simulating entire aircraft during takeoff and landing. The Cadence Fidelity CFD solver has completed multibillion cell simulations in under 24 hours on a single NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 server, significantly speeding up the time traditionally needed.

Anirudh Devgan, President and CEO of Cadence, stated, "NVIDIA Blackwell's acceleration of the Cadence.AI portfolio delivers increased productivity and quality of results for intelligent system design - reducing engineering tasks that took hours to minutes and unlocking simulations not possible before. Our collaboration with NVIDIA drives innovation across semiconductors, data centers, physical AI, and sciences."

Sassine Ghazi, President and CEO of Synopsys, highlighted, "At GTC, we're unveiling the latest performance results observed across our leading portfolio when optimizing Synopsys solutions for NVIDIA Blackwell to accelerate computationally intensive chip design workflows. Synopsys technology is mission-critical to the productivity and capabilities of engineering teams, from silicon to systems. By harnessing the power of NVIDIA accelerated computing, we can help customers unlock new levels of performance and deliver their innovations even faster."

Ajei Gopal, President and CEO of Ansys, mentioned the value of their collaboration with NVIDIA, stating, "The close collaboration between Ansys and NVIDIA is accelerating innovation at an unprecedented pace. By harnessing the computational performance of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, we at Ansys are empowering engineers at Volvo Cars to tackle the most complex computational fluid dynamics challenges with exceptional speed and accuracy - enabling more optimisation studies and delivering more performant vehicles."

James Scapa, Founder and CEO of Altair, remarked, "The NVIDIA Blackwell platform's computing power, combined with Altair's cutting-edge simulation tools, gives users transformative capabilities. This combination makes GPU-based simulations up to 1.6x faster compared with the previous generation, helping engineers rapidly solve design challenges and giving industries the power to create safer, more sustainable products through real-time digital twins and physics-informed AI."

Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens, commented, "The combination of NVIDIA's groundbreaking Blackwell architecture with Siemens' physics-based digital twins will enable engineers to drastically reduce development times and costs through using photo-realistic, interactive digital twins. This collaboration will allow us to help customers like BMW innovate faster, optimise processes and achieve remarkable levels of efficiency in design and manufacturing."

Meanwhile, Rescale's latest CAE Hub supports streamlined access to NVIDIA technologies and CUDA-accelerated software. Boom Supersonic plans to use these advancements for their supersonic passenger jet development, leveraging the Rescale platform to enhance their simulation-driven product development cycle.

The NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time digital twins is now widely accessible for enterprises and is part of the Rescale CAE Hub, incorporating NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo AI, and the NVIDIA Omniverse platform. Additionally, the first NVIDIA NIM microservice for external aerodynamics is now available, further extending the capabilities of the platform.