Investment from the Nvidia NVentures venture capital fund has seen nTop quickly supports new solutions from its new investors, integrating ray tracing and Omniverse technologies to the computational design software.
It is hoped that this integration with Nvidia’s accelerated computing platform will now allow nTop users to accelerate their product designs.
The initial focus of the collaboration will see nTop’s computational design software integrated with the Nvidia OptiX rendering framework and 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 digitalization and generative physical AI.
The first proof of concept integrates the Nvidia OptiX ray-tracing framework 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 an immersive 3D collaboration environment to 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 nurtures companies ‘revolutionising industries with technological advancements’.
“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 nTop CEO Bradley Rothenberg. “We are seeing strong interest from customers and partners and are looking forward to sharing more capabilities later this year.”
“Product engineering and development teams working in every industry need powerful simulation capabilities to design their work in a physically accurate manner,” said 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.”
