nTop, NVIDIA to Collaborate on Computational Design

nTop, a company vested in computational design software for high-performance engineering, reports a collaboration with NVIDIA that will push forward accelerated computing to enable engineering teams to deliver advanced products to market faster, according to the companies. This includes an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm.

Computational design is the process of creating algorithms that use engineering design logic to generate solutions to engineering problems. nTop’s software automates design and optimization processes while integrating with engineering teams’ existing design, analysis, and simulation tools and workflows. 

The initial focus of this collaboration will be to integrate nTop’s computational design software with the NVIDIA OptiX rendering framework and NVIDIA Omniverse technologies to create new tools that help engineering teams accelerate and better visualize 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 software development kits and application programming interfaces will also be used to integrate nTop implicits into the Omniverse and OpenUSD ecosystem. 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. Also, nTop is a member of NVIDIA Inception. 

“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,” says Bradley Rothenberg, co-founder and CEO, nTop. “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,” says 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.”

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.