NVIDIA and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced a partnership for design and engineering across industries. As part of the deal, NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at a purchase price of $414.79 per share. The multiyear partnership adds to technology collaborations between the companies and is intended to: Accelerate Synopsys applications: Using NVIDIA CUDA-X […]
Cornelis and Synopsys Report Record Ansys Fluent Performance with AMD EPYCs
November 13, 2025 by
Nov. 13, 2025 — Cornelis, a provider of high-performance networking, today announced what the company said is record performance score for Ansys Fluent, now part of Synopsys, achieved on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) benchmark. According to Cornelis, the result demonstrate the power of the Cornelis CN5000 Omni-Path interconnect paired with AMD EPYC processors to accelerate […]
Frontier Exascale: CFD Methodology Gets Gordon Bell Nomination for Georgia Tech, NYU Researchers
October 3, 2025 by
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced that Georgia Tech and NYU researchers used a new computational technique, called information geometric regularization (IGR), (see earlier coverage of this work) to conduct the largest computational fluid dynamics simulation of fluid flow. The simulations were run on the Frontier exascale-class HPC system at the Department of Energy’s Oak […]
Quantum Advantage ‘On Paper’: Oak Ridge Tests a Quantum Computing Approach for Fluid Dynamics
March 26, 2025 by
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested a quantum computing approach to an old challenge: solving classical fluid dynamics problems. For the test problem, the research team ….
insideHPC Vanguard: GE Aerospace’s Stephan Priebe — Pushing the Frontiers of Simulation
December 4, 2024 by
Dr. Stephan Priebe is a Senior Engineer in the Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab at GE Aerospace Research in Niskayuna, NY. He became involved with HPC and AI ….
ExaWind: Wind Turbine CFD Simulation on Frontier Exascale
July 31, 2024 by
The Exascale Comuting Project’s ExaWind suite of computational fluid dynamics codes are designed to develop predictive simulations of wind farms that contain dozens of megawatt-class turbines spread across 30 square miles. Using the Frontier exascale supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, the ExaWind team performed some of the highest fidelity wind energy simulations […]
Verne and OCF Power ENGYS’ HPC Deployment in Iceland
June 25, 2024 by
Iceland-based colo provider Verne today announced the deployment of an HPC cluster in Iceland for open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software provider ENGYS, in collaboration with UK-based HPC consultant OCF. OCF designed, configured, and put a Supermicro solution into production for ENGYS, and deployed the system with Verne. Iceland’s access to 100 percent renewable energy resources […]
Altair Partners with New York Yacht Club on America’s Cup Bid
June 17, 2024 by
TROY, Mich., June 12, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced it is showcasing its role as the official computational science and artificial intelligence partner for the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) American Magic team ahead of its quest for the 37th America’s Cup, beginning August 22. Throughout the development cycle for the 37th America’s Cup, Altair’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD), structural analysis, data […]
Nextira Selected for Implementing Ansys Gateway Powered by AWS
May 16, 2023 by
AUSTIN, Texas, May 11, 2023 — Nextira, a cloud solutions provider for cloud migration, technology optimization and digital transformation, announced today it has been selected as a systems integrator for Ansys Gateway powered by AWS. The partnership establishes Nextira as a trusted technology partner empowered to equip engineering and manufacturing companies with Ansys’ simulation and […]
Manufacturing Repatriation: How HPC-Class Technologies from Microsoft Azure and AMD Support Manufacturers’ Reshoring Strategies
March 15, 2023 by
Geopolitical change is having tectonic impact on the global manufacturing industry. In the U.S., western Europe and other industrialized countries, there is growing emphasis on “manufacturing repatriation,” or reshoring of factory production….
