Cadence Electronics Corporation (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the availability of the Cadence Millennium Enterprise Multiphysics Platform for the design and analysis of multiphysics systems, the first in the industry to offer a hardware/software (HW/SW)-accelerated digital twin solution. The next-generation Cadence Millennium M1 platform is designed to improve performance and energy efficiency and accelerate high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Running in the cloud or on-premises, this turnkey solution features graphics processing units (GPUs) from an unsurpassed provider with extremely fast connectivity and an enhanced Cadence high-fidelity CFD software stack, optimized for GPU-accelerated and generative AI. Millennium M1 instances can be integrated into a unified cluster, enabling customers to achieve ideal turnaround speeds, same-day design turnarounds, and provide near-linear scalability for simulating complex systems.
In the automotive, aerospace, energy and turbomachinery industries, it has become a top priority to ensure that the system is designed to reach new levels of performance and energy efficiency. To optimize performance and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, automotive designers are focusing on improving fuel efficiency, reducing drag and noise, and extending the range of electric vehicles. Improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and reducing the frequency of maintenance are top concerns for aerospace and turbomachinery design engineers. To achieve these goals, advances in multiphysics simulation technology are critical. Digital twin simulation helps explore more innovative design options, and performance, accuracy, capacity, and accelerated computing technologies are critical to enabling digital twin simulation. Effective simulation gives us complete confidence that these designs will work as expected before we develop and test prototypes.
The Millennium Platform meets these needs. Key features and benefits of the platform include:
Performance: Combining a best-in-class GPU-resident CFD solver with dedicated GPU hardware, each GPU delivers computing power comparable to that of a supercomputer, equivalent to up to 1000 CPU cores.
• Efficiency: Reduces compute iteration time from weeks to hours, resulting in a 20x improvement in energy efficiency compared to comparable CPUs.
• Accuracy: With the Cadence Fidelity CFD solver, you can tackle complex simulation challenges with the precision you need.
• High-Performance Computing: Uses a scalable architecture and a massively scalable Fidelity solver to deliver near-linear scaling performance across multiple GPU nodes.
· AI Digital Twins: Quickly generate high-quality multiphysics data and leverage generative AI to create fast, reliable digital twin visualizations for the ideal system design.
All-in-one solution: Pioneered the combination of GPU calculations with a modern, scalable CFD solver, providing an ideal environment for accelerated CFD and multidisciplinary design and optimization.
Flexibility: GPUs from Excellence vendors can be configured with at least 8 GPUs in the cloud or 32 GPUs locally, providing a flexible and scalable solution to meet each customer's deployment needs.
Customer feedback
"Honda and Cadence have been working together to accelerate the CFD design process for more than 10 years. We deployed Cadence's Millennium M1 multiphysics supercomputing platform and its LES solver. In automotive, aeropropulsion, and eVTOL projects, our system simulations for aerodynamics, combustion, and aeroacoustic applications have proven to iterate significantly faster and scale better. "We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Cadence on the development of next-generation CFD solutions due to the tremendous potential for improved performance in high-precision CFD simulations." ”
– Atsushi Ogawa, Chief Operating Officer, Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
"At Corvid, we often utilize high-precision CFD tools for aerodynamic and thermal simulations. Cadence Fidelity CFD software, combined with GPU calculations, improves the efficiency of high-precision simulation calculations for subsonic applications by a factor of eight. Considering the large number of simulations that go into each project, it is expected that the Millennium M1 will significantly improve our existing workflow in terms of speed and accuracy. ”
– Mathieu Amiraux, Senior Aerodynamicist, Corvid Technologies
"Our collaboration with Cadence has been very fruitful. ASUS is excited to use Cadence's new Millennium platform, which delivers superior performance and power efficiency through Cadence's game-changing combination of hardware and software. We look forward to continuing to work together to address the challenges of AI digital twin design and multiphysics simulation, based on the present and looking to the future." ”
– Paul Ju, Corporate Vice President and CTO of Data Center, ASUS
"The high-precision flow field simulation technology of Cadence's Millennium M1 and its CharLES solver represents the state of the art in computational fluid dynamics, leveraging new innovations in numerical methods, physical modeling, and GPU calculations. In aerospace, automotive, and energy system design, the impact of turbulence is critical. Cadence's combination of accuracy, speed, and scale has positively impacted these designs and will usher in a new era of predictive simulation. In addition, the speed at which high-quality simulation data is generated is significantly faster, which will greatly enhance our ability to develop control and modeling concepts, including the implementation of AI-based models and digital twins. ”
