Cadence Design Systems announces a new supercomputer utilizing Nvidia chips that will enhance its software solutions for various applications, including chip design, aircraft, and pharmaceuticals.

Cadence provides software that companies like Apple utilize for chip design. However, in recent years, it has grown to assist clients like Boom, a company developing supersonic jets, in designing their aircraft, or the biotech startup Treeline Biosciences in identifying new drug candidates through molecule simulations.

Its software was initially developed with central processing units, or CPUs, in focus during a time when personal computers were prevalent.

Cadence declared that it has revamped several essential programs to operate on Nvidia's newest Blackwell graphics processors, or GPUs. Cadence's latest Millennium M2000 supercomputer will include approximately 32 of Nvidia's latest chips and is expected to be priced around $2 million for the usual configurations, although the final costs have yet to be determined.

Michael Jackson, the corporate vice president and general manager of the system design and analysis group at Cadence, stated that the company collaborated with Boeing to analyze turbulence around sections of a 777 aircraft.

What would have required eight days on a conventional CPU-based system was completed in under 24 hours on the new supercomputer, allowing engineers either to finish the same tasks quicker or to utilize the additional time for further design improvements.

During an event organized by Cadence in Santa Clara, California, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang took the stage with Cadence's CEO Anirudh Devgan and announced that Nvidia plans to buy 10 of the latest supercomputers to create the next generation of its chips and AI data center technology.

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"This is a big deal for us. We started building our data center to get ready for it and we'll speed it up 50, 60, 100 times. The design work Nvidia will do with the machines,” adds Jensen.