Cadence has officially announced launch of its new Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, which arrives on the scene bearing NVIDIA Blackwell systems to deliver AI-accelerated simulation, at unprecedented speed and scale, across engineering and drug design workloads.
According to certain reports, the new supercomputer effectively integrates the company’s industry-leading solvers with NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, as well as NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and solver software. Such a combination, like you can guess, treads up a long distance to conceive dramatic reductions in simulation run times and up to 80X higher performance, versus CPU-based systems, for electronic design automation (EDA), system design and analysis (SDA), and drug discovery applications.
More on the same would reveal how this particular innovation can also be expected to provide a tightly co-optimized hardware-software stack which, on its part, can enable breakthrough performance with up to 20X lower power across multiple disciplines. By doing so, the whole setup greatly accelerates the build-out of AI infrastructure, advances physical AI machine design. and pushes the boundary of drug design.
“From biology to chip design, the world’s most complex engineering challenges require simulation at scales and speeds only possible with accelerated computing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Built with NVIDIA Blackwell, CUDA-X and Cadence’s computational software, the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer is a new class of infrastructure: an AI factory for science to drive breakthroughs that will transform discovery across disciplines.”
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from how Millennium M2000 Supercomputer harnesses Cadence’s broad array of EDA, SDA and molecular software solvers to perform massive simulations that were previously impossible. This includes transforming approaches to semiconductor and 3D-IC design, data center digital twins, drug discovery modeling and other engineering aspects across the hyperscale computing, automotive, data center, and aerospace and defense markets.
Next up, we must dig into Millennium M2000 Supercomputer’s ability to combine all the multiphysics capabilities required for analyzing and optimizing 3D-IC, along with advanced packaging designs, including power, thermal, stress/warpage and electromagnetics. Such a setup enables superior quality in a fraction of the time, ensuring engineering teams can achieve greater reliability and efficiency throughout their product development cycles.
An example relaying the same would be how customers can deliver simulations in less than a day with one Millennium M2000 Supercomputer that earlier would have taken hundreds of CPUs almost two weeks, thus comfortably besting those traditional semiconductor chip-level power integrity simulations.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in how the stated technology enables high-accuracy and high-capacity virtual simulations of machines that will eventually embody AI outside of data centers, such as autonomous transportation, drones, and robotics.
In fact, to design these systems effectively, the combination of accelerated compute and computational software unlocks improved designs in a much shorter time, thanks to virtual wind tunnels that can precisely simulate real-world conditions.
As a result, designers working on electronic and mechatronic systems can now make crucial decisions in less than a day versus multiple days, thus saving both time and energy compared to using a CPU-based Top 500 supercomputer cluster with hundreds of thousands of processors.
As for the availability Millennium M2000 Supercomputer is available both in the cloud and as an on-premises appliance. We must also mention how various big names have already reported positive outcomes from the technology’s early run. These names include Ascendance, Boom Supersonic, MediaTek, Supermicro, and Treeline Biosciences,
“The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer will drive the next leap in AI-accelerated engineering by leveraging our massively scalable solvers, dedicated NVIDIA Blackwell-accelerated computing and AI to help designers continue to push the limits of what is possible,” said Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO of Cadence. “Purpose-built for the most advanced AI models of today and tomorrow, the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer delivers unprecedented designer productivity to propel the next generation of AI infrastructure, physical AI systems and drug discovery.”