NVIDIA Builds Industrial AI Cloud for Europe
Source: nvidianews.nvidia.com
NVIDIA announced at GTC Paris during VivaTech that it is creating the first industrial AI cloud for manufacturers in Europe. The AI factory based in Germany will use 10,000 GPUs, including NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers. It will help European industrial leaders improve manufacturing applications like design, engineering, simulation, factory digital twins, and robotics.
BMW Group, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, and Schaeffler are using NVIDIA-accelerated applications from software companies like Ansys, Cadence, and Siemens to transform their product lifecycles, from design and factory planning to AI-driven operations and logistics.
NVIDIA is helping to construct an AI factory in Germany to handle industrial AI for European manufacturers. It will include 10,000 GPUs, such as NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers. It will also use NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, NVIDIA RTX, and NVIDIA Omniverse-accelerated workloads from software providers like Siemens, Ansys, Cadence, and Rescale. The AI factory will follow the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory design and operations.
Cadence’s Reality Digital Twin Platform will simulate and optimize the AI factory in a virtual environment. This will help engineering teams build a more reliable facility. This investment should help accelerate AI development and adoption for European manufacturers as they prepare for AI gigafactories.
Software Acceleration
Ansys, Cadence, and Siemens are using NVIDIA AI-physics technologies, NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems, and the NVIDIA Omniverse platform to accelerate their product portfolios. Siemens and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to advance industrial AI and digitalization for the factory of the future. Combining Siemens’ software and industrial automation with NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing should help organizations improve performance, productivity, and sustainability through digitalization.
Maserati is using Siemens solutions powered by Omniverse application programming interfaces to visualize airflow over car bodies and improve its manufacturing. Ansys is integrating Omniverse into Ansys Fluent for fluid simulation and Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors to improve scene building and visualization for autonomous vehicle simulations. Volvo Cars ran Ansys Fluent on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, accelerating fluid simulations by 2.5x for its EX90 electric vehicle. Leonardo is using Ansys Fluent on NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate designs and simulations on its civil helicopters and tiltrotors.
Cadence is transforming AI-accelerated simulation with its Cadence Millennium M2000 Supercomputer. Millennium is combined with design software from Cadence and NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries with the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, including NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems, to accelerate silicon, system, and drug design. Ascendance, based in Toulouse, France, is using Cadence Fidelity computational fluid dynamics software and NVIDIA GPUs to design the future of aviation, reducing simulation runtimes by 20x.
Manufacturing Reinvention
Schaeffler is using AI factories and NVIDIA’s physical AI stack for digital factory planning, robotic skills training, and AI-powered automation across its manufacturing plants. By using the Omniverse ecosystem with applications from Siemens, Schaeffler is creating digital twins of its facilities to enable efficient, resilient, and safe production. Schaeffler is also working with Microsoft Azure Industrial Cloud and Wandelbots, using the NOVA platform to integrate the Mega NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint. They are working to reduce integration costs.
BMW Group is building digital twins of its production facilities using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. These digital twins allow BMW production planning teams to collaborate, optimize the layout of manufacturing systems, and develop autonomous robot and vision AI applications. BMW and Siemens are also accelerating vehicle aerodynamics simulation while reducing energy consumption and costs. Tests on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and CUDA-X-accelerated Simcenter Star-CCM+ software have shown a speedup of 30x for aerodynamics simulations of entire vehicle geometries.
Mercedes-Benz is using Omniverse to design and optimize factory assembly lines virtually, reducing downtime and improving efficiency.