NVIDIA has announced the launch of Omniverse Blueprint, a solution designed for computer-aided engineering (CAE) software developers to create real-time digital twins. This tool is aimed at sectors such as aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, and energy, enabling cost reductions, optimizing energy use, and accelerating time to market.
Leading companies like Altair, Ansys, Cadence, and Siemens are already integrating this blueprint to transform engineering and design workflows, enabling simulations up to 1,200 times faster and real-time visualization.
Transforming Computational Engineering with Digital Twins
The Omniverse Blueprint provides a workflow reference based on NVIDIA acceleration libraries, AI frameworks for physics, and interactive rendering based on realistic physics. This allows for complex simulations and real-time visualizations, optimizing processes that traditionally could take weeks or months.
One of the first applications of this solution is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, essential for testing and refining designs for vehicles, aircraft, and vessels. In a pioneering advance, NVIDIA and Luminary Cloud demonstrated a virtual wind tunnel at the SC24 conference, allowing for real-time modifications of vehicle models and instant fluid dynamics visualization.
Unifying Key Technological Pillars
The development of interactive digital twins requires two fundamental capabilities: real-time physical simulations and large-scale data visualization. NVIDIA achieves this through the combination of:
- CUDA-X™ Libraries to accelerate simulation solvers.
- NVIDIA Modulus, an AI framework for training models that generate flow fields.
- Omniverse APIs, which enable interoperability of 3D data and real-time visualization with RTX technology.
These components can be integrated independently or as a complete package into existing tools, allowing for flexible adoption across various industries.
Applications and Adoption in the Industry
Leading technology and simulation companies are already integrating the Omniverse Blueprint:
- Ansys has applied the blueprint in its Fluent software for CFD simulations. Using 320 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, it completed a 2.5 billion cell automotive simulation in just six hours, reducing times that would traditionally take a month with x86 processors.
- Luminary Cloud has developed an AI model based on NVIDIA Modulus capable of simulating aerodynamic flows in real time, allowing designers to explore immediate changes in vehicle geometry.
- Companies like Altair, Siemens, SimScale, and Trane Technologies are evaluating incorporating the blueprint to optimize their own engineering and design applications.
Furthermore, cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure already support the implementation of the blueprint, expanding its global accessibility.
Benefits for the Industry
The Omniverse Blueprint not only accelerates design and engineering processes but also allows organizations to tackle complex problems with greater precision and efficiency. From optimizing workflows in factories to training custom AI models, this solution redefines the standards of computational engineering.
According to Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA: “We built Omniverse so everything can have a digital twin. With Omniverse Blueprints, we are empowering leading CAE software developers to create workflows that will transform industrial digitization across the largest sectors in the world.”
Availability
Companies interested in exploring the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time digital twins can sign up for early access. With this new tool, NVIDIA continues to lead innovation in the fields of engineering and industrial digitization.
via: Nvidia