NVentures invests in development, nTop integrates NVIDIA ray tracing and Omniverse technologies.
Engineering design software provider nTop has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA that aims to harness the power of accelerated computing to help engineering teams deliver advanced products to market at greater speed. This includes an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm.
nTop’s software is designed to automate engineering design and optimization processes, integrating with existing design, analysis and simulation tools and workflows. According to nTop, the integration with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform will enable engineering teams to accelerate product design and bring high-performance products to market faster and with less effort.
“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 of nTop in a press release.
The initial focus of the collaboration will be integrating nTop’s computational design software with the NVIDIA OptiX rendering framework and NVIDIA Omniverse technologies, resulting in new tools intended to help engineering teams accelerate and better visualize their designs. Omniverse is NVIDIA’s 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 with the stated aim of nurturing companies that are revolutionizing 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,” said Mohamed “Sid” Siddeek, corporate vice president at NVIDIA and head of NVentures in the same release. “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.”
