Expanded collaboration will drive the future of simulation powered by accelerated computing and generative artificial intelligence
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- Ansys will work with NVIDIA on accelerated computing, advancing 6G communication systems, artificial intelligence (AI) simulation solutions, autonomous vehicles, digital twins, enhanced graphics and visual rendering
- Ansys joins Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) to drive data interoperability of 3D content in products across the Ansys portfolio
- NVIDIA will expand its use of Ansys solutions for hardware optimization, while Ansys will use NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, GPUs based on the Hopper architecture and GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips to scale and accelerate existing solutions
PITTSBURGH, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop next-generation simulation solutions powered by accelerated computing and generative artificial intelligence. The expanded collaboration will bring together cutting-edge technologies to advance 6G technologies, power Ansys solvers via NVIDIA GPUs, integrate NVIDIA AI into Ansys software offerings, develop physics-based digital twins, and adapt large language models (LLMs) developed with NVIDIA AI foundry services.
Ansys recently joined AOUSD to strengthen data interoperability and deliver enhanced graphics and visualization to its portfolio. Ansys has already bundled Ansys AVxcelerate Autonomy™ on NVIDIA DRIVE Sim running NVIDIA Omniverse platform and plans to explore additional integrations across the portfolio, including Ansys STK™Ansys LS-DYNA™Ansys Fluent™and Ansys Perceive EM. This seamless interoperability will empower users to tackle a wide range of challenges, from factory-scale simulations to planetary-scale simulations.
Along with Omniverse integrations, the collaboration will prioritize progress in four areas:
- Accelerated computing: Ansys, working with NVIDIA, enables customers across industries to shorten design cycles and deliver increasingly complex products by advancing numerical research in high-performance computing. Ansys uses NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs to enhance multiple simulation solutions and prioritizes processors based on NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips for products across the Ansys portfolio, including Ansys Fluent, Ansys LS-Dyna, and Ansys Electronics and Semiconductor products. At the same time, NVIDIA uses Ansys technology, including semiconductor tools, to enrich virtual models and data center design, ultimately leading to accelerated performance of Ansys solvers.
- 6G telecommunications: Ansys is an early adopter of the NVIDIA 6G Research Cloud platform, providing researchers with a comprehensive suite for advancing AI for radio access networks (RAN). Ansys Perceive EM, a new solver powered by Ansys HFSS™, is based on the NVIDIA 6G Research Cloud, which is designed to accelerate the development of 6G technologies. Perceive EM’s on-demand synthetic data revolutionizes digital twins of 6G systems with increased predictive accuracy, capable of assessing how real-world conditions affect wireless network performance. Perceive EM will also be available within Ansys academic and Ansys launchers, which have reached 2900+ universities and 2100+ startups.
- AI-enhanced simulation: Ansys is exploring the NVIDIA Modulus framework for physics-based machine learning to further enhance its software offering with the latest artificial intelligence techniques. The work aims to deliver improved functionality within the Ansys AI+ product family, such as more efficient optimization, sensitivity analyzes and robust designs.
- AI Foundry: Ansys examines adoption of NVIDIA AI foundry to advance LLM development, furthering democratization of simulation by simplifying setup and use. Future LLMs tailored to Ansys solutions offer the potential to provide expert virtual assistance that will open doors to new users and create new simulation use cases. Ansys intends to leverage the NVIDIA NeMo platform, which offers a set of tools that make it easier, more cost-effective, and faster to develop generative AI capabilities.
“We are excited to extend our collaboration with NVIDIA to enable a new frontier in generative artificial intelligence and accelerated computing,” said Ajei Gopal, president and CEO of Ansys. “Within the dynamic realm of NVIDIA Omniverse, our visionary customers can drive innovation, bridging virtual and physical realities to shape the technologies of tomorrow and help solve the most pressing engineering challenges of our time.”
“Everything manufactured will have a digital twin — and the world’s designers and engineers in heavy industry markets rely on Ansys as their simulation engine,” said Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA. “We are working with Ansys to bring accelerated computing and generative artificial intelligence to these massive workloads, and to extend Ansys’ leading physics simulation tools with NVIDIA Omniverse digitization technologies.”
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