Cadence launches AI-Driven platform to enhance Data Centre efficiency and sustainability
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has launched the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform, which aims to improve the design and efficiency of data centres. This AI-driven digital twin technology can enhance energy efficiency by up to 30%, offering a new approach to sustainable data centre operations.
The platform allows for the virtualisation of data centre environments, employing AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and physics-based simulation to analyse and optimise operations.
Tom Beckley, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Cadence stated, “The Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform is designed to optimise data centre design and operations, addressing the sustainability and energy efficiency challenges facing data centres due to the growth of AI.”
In addition to its commercial applications, Cadence is used in the EdTech world via its University Programme, which provides access to electronic design automation tools for academic institutions worldwide.
The Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform features advanced modelling capabilities, environmental considerations, customised reporting, innovative cooling strategies, and integration with Cadence’s multiphysics solvers. These components work together to simulate various design scenarios and operational strategy to identify energy-efficient solutions.
Industry feedback highlights the platform’s potential impact. Pascal LeCoq, Worldwide Director at HPE said, “HPE incorporates leading-edge technologies, like the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform, to help drive energy efficiency, optimize capacity and reduce carbon footprints for customers.
“We’ve had many instances of customer success, including helping to enable a Tier IV-certified colocation provider to guarantee competitive energy costs while meeting its service-level objectives, improving its environmental performance and reducing its carbon-equivalent emissions.”
Giordano Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv, noted the importance of adapting infrastructure strategies to support AI workloads:
“The power density required to support AI is unprecedented and accelerating. This requires major infrastructure strategy changes for new data centre builds and the retrofit of existing ones. As a world leader in data centre critical infrastructure solutions, Vertiv delivers mission-critical power and cooling solutions to support high-performance compute, including liquid cooling solutions for NVIDIA's latest GPU-based loads.
“Leveraging the innovative data centre design and operations platform from our strategic technology partner, Cadence, will provide visibility of how our data centre critical infrastructure can best support these leading-edge deployments. The Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform enables us to design even more energy-efficient solutions with the confidence that they will deliver the designed-for capacity in a variety of scenarios.”
