At CadenceLIVE, Cadence Unveils an NVIDIA-Accelerated Supercomputer, Transforming Engineering Simulation and Design.
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Through a close integration with NVIDIA accelerated computing hardware and software, Cadence Design Systems revealed a major advancement in speeding up AI-driven engineering design and scientific simulation at its annual CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley event today. The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, powered by NVIDIA’s latest technology, promises unprecedented performance for digital twin simulations, drug discovery, and semiconductor design.
NVIDIA Millennium M2000 Supercomputer
The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer outperforms its CPU-based predecessor. NVIDIA HGX B200 systems and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are included. The system is powered by optimized software, such as NVIDIA CUDA-X software libraries, in addition to hardware. Compared to the previous generation, this combination of cutting-edge hardware and customized software is said to provide up to 80x greater performance for crucial activities in system design, electronic design automation (EDA), and the biological sciences. Engineers and researchers may now tackle large, intricate, and detailed simulations owing to this significant performance gain.
Numerous industries are expected to see breakthroughs as a result of this increased processing capacity. The Millennium Supercomputer speeds up applications such as molecular design, data centre design, circuit simulation, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). that speedier medicine, system, and semiconductor development is made possible by the system’s ability to provide more precise insights.
The design and development of medicinal compounds, data centres, semiconductors, and autonomous machines are a few specific instances of its possible influence. Additionally, the sources describe particular integrations within Cadence’s platforms, such as the incorporation of NVIDIA Llama Nemotron reasoning models into the Cadence JedAI Platform and NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM microservices into the Cadence Orion molecular design platform.
The CEO and creator of NVIDIA, as well as the president of Cadence, spoke onstage at CadenceLIVE about the partnership behind this new supercomputer. According to Devgan, this invention has been “years in the making,” involving major software rewrite by Cadence and hardware and system improvements by NVIDIA in order to take advantage of the new capabilities. The leaders highlighted their collaborative efforts on digital twins, agentic AI, and AI factories. AI will be infused into every single aspect of everything human do, adding that “every company will be run better because of AI, or they’ll build better products because of AI.”
NVIDIA revealed plans to acquire 10 Millennium Supercomputer systems built on the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 architecture, highlighting the importance of this partnership. The goal of this large acquisition is to speed up NVIDIA’s internal chip design processes. Huang called this acquisition a “big deal” for NVIDIA, pointing out that they have already started preparing by expanding their data centre infrastructure.
The sources give specific instances of the applications of this advanced technology. During the creation of NVIDIA Blackwell, NVIDIA engineering teams used the Cadence Palladium emulation and Protium prototyping platforms for chip bring-up and design verification. On the other hand, Cadence used the Cadence Fidelity CFD Platform and NVIDIA Grace Blackwell-accelerated systems to model the fluid dynamics of aircraft takeoff and landing.
Using the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips and the Cadence platform, a “highly complex” simulation that would have taken days on a massive CPU cluster with hundreds of thousands of cores was finished in less than 24 hours. Additionally, Cadence visualised these complex fluid dynamics using NVIDIA Omniverse application programming interfaces.
The integration goes beyond only creating physical simulations; it also includes designing and optimizing the infrastructure needed for AI. For AI industrial digital twins, Cadence has embraced the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint, which is linked to the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform. Before construction starts, this integration enables engineering teams to use physically based simulations to evaluate and optimize important components like electricity, cooling, and networking within an AI factory. This feature helps ensure that next-generation AI factories are future-proof and facilitates quicker configuration decisions.
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CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2025 included the presentation of the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer and the specifics of the extensive partnership. Users of Cadence technology can network with engineers, business executives, and specialists influencing the field of electrical design and intelligent systems at the event, which will be held on May 7, 2025, at the Santa Clara Convention Centre.
The Cadence description, LIVE Silicon Valley 2025 will be a day of education, networking, and cutting-edge technological exploration. Attendees can hone their abilities by learning best practices and practical solutions. The event’s array of inspirational keynote addresses from trailblazers in the field is one of its main draws. The Designer Expo lets guests see cutting-edge ideas and network with peers, Cadence experts, and innovators. It brings smart individuals together for a day of innovation and inspiration.
With the promise of drastically cutting time and cost while enabling previously unattainable levels of simulation complexity and detail, the collaboration between Cadence and NVIDIA, highlighted by the new Millennium M2000 Supercomputer and its presentation at CadenceLIVE, represents a profound integration of Artificial Intelligence(AI) and accelerated computing into the fundamental processes of engineering design and scientific discovery.
