NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech—In a groundbreaking announcement at the recent NVIDIA GTC Paris event, the tech giant unveiled plans to construct the world’s first industrial AI cloud tailored specifically for European manufacturers. This ambitious project, based in Germany, will feature an impressive array of 10,000 GPUs, including the powerful NVIDIA DGX
B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers. The aim? To empower Europe’s industrial leaders to supercharge their manufacturing processes, spanning everything from design and engineering to simulation, factory digital twins, and robotics.
Notably, major European manufacturers such as BMW Group, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, and Schaeffler are already on board, transforming their entire product lifecycles. They are leveraging NVIDIA-accelerated applications from industry-leading software providers like Ansys, Cadence, and Siemens to enhance everything from simulated product design to AI-driven operations and logistics.
“In the era of AI, every manufacturer needs two factories: one for making things, and one for creating the intelligence that powers them,” stated Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. This statement encapsulates the essence of NVIDIA’s vision: by establishing Europe’s first industrial AI infrastructure, they are enabling leading industrial companies to adopt a simulation-first, AI-driven approach to manufacturing.
Building Europe’s First Industrial AI Cloud for Manufacturers
NVIDIA’s initiative to build an AI factory in Germany is set to revolutionize industrial AI workloads for European manufacturers. This facility will not only house 10,000 GPUs but will also run NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, NVIDIA RTX, and NVIDIA Omniverse-accelerated workloads from top software providers like Siemens, Ansys, and Cadence. The AI factory will be designed following the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory operations, ensuring that it meets the highest standards of efficiency and innovation.
As part of this blueprint, Cadence’s Reality Digital Twin Platform will simulate and optimize the AI factory in a highly accurate virtual environment. This approach allows engineering teams to create a smarter, more reliable facility, ultimately serving as a launchpad for accelerating AI development and adoption among European manufacturers, especially in anticipation of future AI gigafactories.
Industrial Software Leaders Accelerate Products With NVIDIA Technologies
At GTC Paris, NVIDIA also highlighted the role of leading independent software vendors like Ansys, Cadence, and Siemens in accelerating their product offerings using NVIDIA’s advanced AI-physics technologies. Siemens and NVIDIA have expanded their partnership to usher in a new era of industrial AI and digitalization, enabling the factory of the future. This collaboration combines Siemens’ expertise in software and industrial automation with NVIDIA’s cutting-edge AI and accelerated computing capabilities, empowering organizations to optimize performance, enhance productivity, and achieve sustainability goals through digitalization.
Maserati is already leveraging Siemens solutions powered by Omniverse APIs to visualize airflow over car bodies, thereby refining its manufacturing processes. Meanwhile, Ansys is integrating Omniverse into its high-fidelity fluid simulation software, Ansys Fluent, and into Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors, enhancing scene building and visualization for autonomous vehicle simulations. Volvo Cars has reported a remarkable 2.5x acceleration in fluid simulations for its EX90 electric vehicle by utilizing Ansys Fluent on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
Cadence is also making waves with its new Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, which is set to transform AI-accelerated simulation across multiple markets, including industrial AI. By integrating industry-leading design software with NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, Cadence is poised to accelerate silicon, system, and drug design. Toulouse-based Ascendance is already reaping the benefits, achieving a 20x reduction in simulation runtimes using Cadence Fidelity computational fluid dynamics software alongside NVIDIA GPUs.
European Leaders Reinvent Manufacturing From End to End
Schaeffler is at the forefront of this industrial revolution, utilizing AI factories and adopting NVIDIA’s physical AI stack for digital factory planning. They are training human-like robotic skills and scaling AI-powered automation across more than 100 manufacturing plants. By leveraging the Omniverse ecosystem and applications from Siemens, Schaeffler is creating digital twins of its facilities, which allows for efficient, resilient, and safe production across the entire value chain.
In collaboration with partners like Microsoft Azure Industrial Cloud and Wandelbots, Schaeffler is integrating the Mega NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint. Initial use cases are already progressing toward maturity, with the goal of accelerating deployment while reducing integration costs. BMW Group is also making strides by building digital twins of its production facilities using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. These plant-scale digital twins facilitate real-time collaboration among global production planning teams, enabling them to optimize layouts and designs of complex manufacturing systems.
Additionally, BMW and Siemens are working together to enhance the simulation of vehicle aerodynamics, achieving a remarkable 30x speedup for transient aerodynamics simulations of entire vehicle geometries using NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and CUDA-X-accelerated Simcenter Star-CCM+ software. Mercedes-Benz is similarly leveraging Omniverse to design and optimize factory assembly lines virtually, which has led to reduced downtime and improved efficiency across its global factories.
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