Omniverse Enterprise, NVIDIA’s virtual 3D collaboration platform, when combined with NVIDIA OVX, brings the immense power of digital twins to the mix across sectors. In this VB On-Demand event, executives from NVIDIA and Supermicro discuss the platform’s many potentials.
“We believe that everything that you do in the future can be done digitally before it takes place in the real world,” says Michael Kaplan, Director, Global Segment Sales Omniverse Enterprise at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA Omniverse lets you build and simulate a virtual world that’s indistinguishable from the real world.”
Created for real-time 3D collaboration and workflows, Omniverse Enterprise is a scalable, multi-GPU real-time reference development platform. The number of use cases has proliferated across industries — architecture, engineering, construction and operations, media and entertainment, and manufacturing. It’s especially relevant as remote work and globally dispersed teams have become the norm, and the need for compute-heavy technologies and apps that work seamlessly together has grown.
For example, in the media and entertainment world, companies are using the Omniverse Enterprise platform for concept design and pre-visualization and moving projects efficiently through feedback, iterations, and approvals. Architectural firms can enhance their design pipelines and create photorealistic models. And digital twins powered by NVIDIA OVX are unlocking physically accurate virtual representations that can revolutionize manufacturing.
NVIDIA OVX and digital twins
“OVX is an architecture that about computes capabilities,” Kaplan says. “It does the heavy lifting of operating a digital twin and powering any type of simulation workload. We bring together the best of the networking technology that NVIDIA has, the best GPU technology, coupled with really good multi-GPU server capabilities and a strong software stack on top of that to get all these heavy computational workloads done efficiently.”
“We’ve been at work on this for quite some time, to put together the capabilities of what an OVX architecture can bring to the market,” Kaplan says. “This computational power has not been around in the past. We can finally take on the workloads that we haven’t been able to approach before because we just didn’t have the capability to do it in an efficient manner.”
With Omniverse Enterprise running on NVIDIA OVX, users can now leverage true-to-reality physics, materials, lighting, rendering, and behavior, for virtual system testing, layout changes, software optimizations, or upgrades. Because they’re real-time, living simulations, synchronized to the physical world, enterprises can diagnose a single moment in time or simulate and predict infinite “what-if” scenarios.
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Digital twins are being used in industrial applications like manufacturing and warehouse design, logistics, and distribution to develop, test, and optimize complex systems and processes, as well as to increase operating efficiency. Users may also create predictive analysis, model software, and process automation to decrease operational mistakes and increase efficiency.
Digital twins are also becoming increasingly important in scientific research. Cooperation with Lockheed Martin to anticipate wildfire behavior and NVIDIA Earth-2, a planetary-scale digital duplicate of the Earth to speed climate research, are two of NVIDIA’s initiatives.
Virtual worlds are being used to put out flames.
In previous summers, wildfires raged across the United States, burning millions of acres of land and putting people, wildlife, and property in jeopardy. NVIDIA and Lockheed Martin are collaborating with the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control to get a better knowledge of how wildfires originate, spread, and how to limit the damage (DFPC).
Furthermore, the two businesses are constructing the world’s first AI-centric lab dedicated to wildfire prediction and response.
The technology speeds up the training, development, and assessment of new AI models by recreating previous fires using actual data. Emergency responders, operators, and engineers may analyze the impact of their methods in an immersive digital twin environment.
Tackling the climate crisis with Earth’s digital twin
The climate crisis is teetering on the edge of a climate disaster, scientists warn. Getting carbon neutral by 2050, per the EU mandate, could still prevent the worst-case scenario, but we’ll need serious computing power and analysis to figure out how to get there — to accurately simulate regional climate change takes a billion-X scale in computing power, in fact.
In his GTC keynote, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s three core technologies – GPU-accelerated computations, physics-informed AI models, and AI supercomputers — are key. The company is now able to build a powerful enough AI supercomputer to develop the Earth’s own digital twin. Earth-2 will be able to predict regional and global climate and weather events in real-time, and let scientists and engineers create simulations for everything from the impact of city planning on a region’s weather to large-scale mitigation strategies. Scientists and other stakeholders across the world will be able to collaborate synchronously in Earth-2 as they study the present and plan for possible futures.
To learn more about the power of virtual 3D design collaboration, AI-powered digital twins, and how NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise and OVX are changing industries and changing the world, don’t miss this VB Live event!
