Nvidia and Dassault Systèmes, the French industrial software company behind the 3DEXPERIENCE design platform, have announced a partnership to combine their respective technologies and accelerate the way engineers design, simulate and manufacture complex products.
The collaboration pairs Nvidia's Omniverse, a platform for building and running industrial digital twins, with Dassault's Virtual Twin technology, which creates detailed virtual replicas of physical products, factories and processes that engineers can test and validate before committing to real-world construction.
Under the agreement, Dassault's SIMULIA simulation software will incorporate Nvidia's CUDA-X computing libraries and AI physics models to predict physical behaviour inside virtual environments, reducing the time and cost of iterative physical prototyping.
In the other direction, Nvidia is adopting Dassault's model-based systems engineering approach to accelerate the design and global rollout of its gigawatt-scale AI data centres, the large facilities that power modern AI services.
Dassault Systèmes will also deploy Nvidia-powered AI infrastructure across three continents through its OUTSCALE sovereign cloud service, allowing customers to run intensive AI workloads while keeping data within their own jurisdictions for security and regulatory purposes.
The companies cited several organisations already using elements of the combined technology, including Lucid Motors, the electric vehicle manufacturer; the Bel Group, which is using Dassault's industry models to study food proteins; automation company Omron; and Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research.
Nvidia is also highlighting its BioNeMo platform, which applies similar AI and simulation techniques to molecule and materials discovery in life sciences.
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Pascal Daloz, chief executive of Dassault Systèmes, said during his keynote address at the 3DEXPERIENCE World conference: "Knowledge is encoded in the living world."
Nvidia is presenting the partnership at its GTC conference in San Jose, which opens with a keynote from chief executive Jensen Huang.
The recap
- NVIDIA and Dassault Systèmes form Omniverse and virtual twin partnership
- Dassault will deploy NVIDIA‑powered AI factories on three continents
- NVIDIA to showcase industrial AI sessions and keynote at GTC