06/11/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 06/11/2025 05:21
NVIDIA just announced plans to build an industrial AI cloud in Germany, which will have a significant impact on how Ansys European customers run their simulations. It will drive faster innovation across multiple industries. Let's walk through how we got here and what it means.
Ansys and NVIDIA have been steadily increasing their collaborative work. For example, Ansys simulation software leverages NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries to optimize GPU performance for its manufacturing customers. Ansys tools are also integrated with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and are set to bring engineering insights to new heights. This continuing partnership enables larger, more comprehensive simulation scenarios, empowering engineers to visualize prototypes and optimize designs based on real-world conditions.
Ansys has also been writing entirely new, GPU-optimized solvers for many years to significantly accelerate computationally intensive physics-based simulations. Conventional simulation methods that rely on CPUs can sometimes be slow and resource-intensive, leaving little room for iterative design improvements.
To overcome these challenges, Volvo Cars leveraged Ansys and NVIDIA technologies to reduce total CFD simulation time from 24 hours on 2,016 CPU cores to just 6.5 hours - comprising a solve time of 5.5 hours on 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and 1 hour meshing time on CPU cores - thanks to NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Ansys Fluent fluid simulation software and workflow optimizations.
Any company that leverages simulation is doing so to drive product development in some way. Getting insights sooner - or better insights in the same amount of time - benefits both top and bottom lines. High-performance computing (HPC) is the solution to this speedup, and NVIDIA accelerated computing has emerged as a critical contributor to this field.
Given the speed enhancements to a wide set of Ansys solvers - including Fluent software, Ansys Mechanical structural finite element analysis software, Ansys HFSS high-frequency electromagnetic simulation software, and Ansys Speos optical and lighting simulation software - the broad global Ansys customer base is keenly interested in the benefits of accelerated simulation. Today, there are three main ways to acquire access to this new GPU horsepower: workstations, turnkey GPU nodes that can be configured into clusters for an on-premises solution, and cloud service providers that are preconfiguring GPU-based virtual machines optimized for HPC and AI workloads.
In several global regions, including much of Europe, data sovereignty and the use of country-based compute providers are becoming both strategic and operational imperatives. Today's announcement by NVIDIA at GTC Paris unveils plans for an "industrial AI Factory" that directly addresses these needs for industrial-scale workloads.
A 500M cell annular combustor computational fluid dynamics (CFD) benchmark derived from a NASA EEE aircraft engine, solved in 10 hours on 16 NVIDIA Grace Hopper GPUs, which is approximately a 10x speedup compared to 16 CPU nodes with 2300 cores.
This newly announced cloud system, which will contain 10,000 GPUs, including NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Server, represents a massive in-country capacity that will be well suited for Ansys customers looking to take advantage of the new GPU solver capabilities of Ansys applications such as Fluent software, HFSS SBR+ software, Ansys Lumerical opto-electronics component simulation software, Ansys Perceive EM radio frequency channel and radar signature simulation software, Ansys Rocky particle dynamics simulation software, and Speos software. Types of engineering work and product development that will realize immediate benefit include:
The Ansys SimAI cloud-enabled artificial intelligence platform used with NVIDIA Omniverse
Ansys stands by NVIDIA in this project and will continue to run benchmarks and build easily accessible options for our customers to take advantage of this exciting new compute option. We will work with early adopter customers to give us input and feedback as we build out these pathways. We look forward to some amazing results.
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