nTop advances computational design with NVIDIA collaboration
September 17, 2024
nTop (formerly known as nTopology), headquartered in New York City, USA, has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA that looks to harness the power of accelerated computing to enable engineering teams to deliver advanced products to market at unprecedented speeds. This includes an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm.
The initial focus of this collaboration will be to integrate nTop’s computational design software with the NVIDIA Omniverse technologies to create new tools that help engineering teams accelerate and better visualise their designs. Omniverse is a platform for developing OpenUSD applications for industrial digitalisation and generative physical AI.
“Our goal in collaborating with NVIDIA is to provide the fastest computing solutions to our customers so they can iterate even faster through design options,” said Bradley Rothenberg, co-founder and CEO, nTop. “We are seeing strong interest from customers and partners and are looking forward to sharing more capabilities later this year.”
Computational design is the process of creating algorithms that use engineering design logic to generate solutions to engineering problems. nTop’s software automates design and optimisation processes while integrating with engineering teams’ existing design, analysis, and simulation tools and workflows. nTop’s integration with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform looks to allow engineering teams to accelerate product design and bring high-performance products to market faster and with less effort.
The first proof of concept integrates the NVIDIA OptiX ray-tracing framework in an effort to provide more realistic rendering in nTop. Omniverse SDKs and APIs will also be used to integrate nTop implicits into the Omniverse and OpenUSD ecosystem to provide engineering teams with a collaboration environment wherein they can see and interact with live digital twins of their parts and assemblies. As changes are made to designs in nTop, they can be reflected in OpenUSD applications developed on the Omniverse platform, with no meshing necessary for the transfer. nTop is a member of NVIDIA Inception, a program that looks to nurture companies believed to be revolutionising industries with technological advancements.
“Product engineering and development teams working in every industry need powerful simulation capabilities to design their work in a physically accurate manner,” stated Mohamed ‘Sid’ Siddeek, corporate vice president at NVIDIA and head of NVentures. “In collaboration with NVIDIA, the team at nTop is showcasing the benefits of accelerated computing in computational design by building incredible tools for engineering teams to design and deliver innovative products.”
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