Cadence at its annual major user event “CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2025” that it is significantly expanding the Cadence® Millennium™ Enterprise Platform with NVIDIA Blackwell systems on the Millennium M2000 supercomputer, enabling AI-accelerated simulations at unprecedented speed and scale across engineering and pharmaceutical design workloads.
The new supercomputer integrates Cadence’s industry-leading solvers with NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs , and NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and solver software. This powerful combination dramatically reduces simulation run times and delivers up to 80x performance over CPU-based systems for electronic design automation (EDA), system design and analysis (SDA), and drug discovery applications. By delivering a tightly co-optimized hardware/software stack, the supercomputer delivers breakthrough performance across multiple domains at up to 20x lower power consumption, accelerating the creation of AI infrastructure, advancing the design of physical AI machines, and expanding the possibilities of drug design.
Next-generation infrastructure, physical and scientific AI will require advanced computational power in data centers and edge devices. Building on the success of the Millennium M1 supercomputer, which delivered breakthrough performance and energy efficiency for high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, the Millennium M2000 supercomputer leverages Cadence’s broad range of EDA, SDA and molecular software solvers to run simulations at scale never before possible, transforming how engineers approach engineering challenges in the hyperscale computing, automotive, data center and aerospace and defense markets, including semiconductor and 3D-IC design, data center digital twins and pharmaceutical design.
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The Evolution of Semiconductor and 3D-IC Design
The Millennium M2000 supercomputer, the industry’s first dedicated AI design emulator, combines all the multiphysics capabilities required to analyze and optimize 3D-IC and advanced packaging designs, including power consumption, thermal, stress/warpage, and electromagnetics. This ensures superior quality in a fraction of the time, enabling engineering teams to achieve greater reliability and efficiency in their product development cycles. For example, traditional semiconductor chip-level power integrity simulations are limited to very short time domains. However, a single Millennium M2000 supercomputer can now run simulations in less than a day that previously took nearly two weeks on hundreds of CPUs.
Accelerating Autonomous Systems Design
Building an AI infrastructure requires significant investments in data centers and compute infrastructure. Doing this in an energy and resource efficient manner is crucial to delivering next-generation foundational models from the AI factory. Digital twins improve operational efficiency, reduce risk and lower total power consumption. The Millennium M2000 supercomputer accelerates the design process required to design and operate such digital twins of data centers, and the racks, boards and equipment that support them.
The Millennium M2000 supercomputer also enables high-precision, high-volume virtual simulation of autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics and other machines that embody AI outside of the data center. To effectively design these systems, the combination of accelerated machines and computational software provides a virtual wind tunnel that can accurately simulate real-world conditions, resulting in better designs in less time. Designers of electronic and mechatronic systems can now make critical decisions in less than a day, saving both time and energy compared to using CPU-based Top 500 supercomputer clusters with hundreds of thousands of processors.
Promoting innovation in life sciences
Cadence Molecular Sciences is accelerating drug discovery by enabling its pharmaceutical customers to run more simulations in less time using its Millennium M2000 supercomputer. Cadence’s Orion® Molecular Design Platform on Cadence OnCloud, available on the Millennium M2000 supercomputer, provides researchers with unparalleled computational power to accelerate the discovery of potential drug candidates and make the process more scalable. As a result, customers can explore more design scenarios and iterations in less time, leading to faster innovation and improved drug development.
SOURCE: PRTimes
