A brand new supercomputer provided by Cadence, a number one supplier of know-how for digital design automation, is poised to help a set of engineering design and life sciences functions accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell methods and NVIDIA CUDA-X software program libraries.
Out there to deploy within the cloud and on premises, the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer options NVIDIA HGX B200 methods and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Version GPUs. Mixed with optimized software program, the supercomputer delivers as much as 80x greater efficiency for digital design automation, system design and life sciences workloads in comparison with its predecessor, a CPU-based system.
With this enhance in computational functionality, engineers can run large simulations to drive breakthroughs within the design and growth of autonomous machines, drug molecules, semiconductors, knowledge facilities and extra.
Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO of Cadence, mentioned the collaboration with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang onstage at CadenceLIVE, happening immediately in Santa Clara, California.
“That is years within the making,” Devgan stated in the course of the dialog with Huang. “It’s a mix of development on the {hardware} and system facet by NVIDIA — after which, in fact, we now have to rewrite our software program to reap the benefits of that.”
The pair mentioned how NVIDIA and Cadence are working collectively on AI factories, digital twins and agentic AI.
“The work that we’re doing collectively acknowledges that there’s an entire new kind of manufacturing unit that’s vital. We name them AI factories,” Huang stated. “AI goes to infuse into each single facet of all the things we do. Each firm might be run higher due to AI, or they’ll construct higher merchandise due to AI.”
Huang additionally introduced that NVIDIA plans to buy 10 Millennium Supercomputer methods primarily based on the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform to speed up the corporate’s chip design workflows.
“This can be a large deal for us,” he stated. “We began constructing our knowledge middle to prepare for it.”
Enabling Clever Design Throughout Industries
The Millennium Supercomputer harnesses accelerated software program from NVIDIA and Cadence for functions together with circuit simulation, computational fluid dynamics, knowledge middle design and molecular design.
With the supercomputer’s optimized {hardware} and AI software program, engineers and researchers can construct extra complicated, detailed simulations which might be able to delivering extra correct insights to allow sooner silicon, methods and drug growth.
By means of this collaboration, Cadence and NVIDIA are fixing key design challenges with numerous functions throughout industries — for instance, simulating thermal dynamics for chip design, fluid dynamics for aerospace functions and molecular dynamics for pharmaceutical analysis.
NVIDIA engineering groups used Cadence Palladium emulation platforms and Protium prototyping platforms to help design verification and chip bring-up workflows for the event of NVIDIA Blackwell.
Cadence used NVIDIA Grace Blackwell-accelerated methods to calculate the fluid dynamics at work when an plane takes off and lands. Utilizing NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips and the Cadence Constancy CFD Platform, Cadence was capable of run in below 24 hours extremely complicated simulations that might take a number of days to finish on a CPU cluster with lots of of hundreds of cores.
Cadence additionally used NVIDIA Omniverse utility programming interfaces to visualise these intricate fluid dynamics.
The corporate has built-in NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM microservices into Orion, Cadence’s molecular design platform — and NVIDIA Llama Nemotron reasoning fashions into the Cadence JedAI Platform.
Cadence has additionally adopted the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI manufacturing unit digital twins. Linked to the Cadence Actuality Digital Twin Platform, the blueprint permits engineering groups to check and optimize energy, cooling and networking in an AI manufacturing unit with bodily primarily based simulations — lengthy earlier than building begins in the actual world. With these capabilities, engineers could make sooner configuration choices and future-proof the subsequent technology of AI factories.
Study extra concerning the collaboration between NVIDIA and Cadence and watch this NVIDIA GTC session on advancing physics-based simulation know-how for AI manufacturing unit design.
Photographs courtesy of Cadence.
