Cadence adds Nvidia’s GB200 NVL to it’s DC tycoon sims • The Register

With the rush to capitalize on the gen AI boom, datacenters have never been hotter. But before signing that multi-billion dollar purchase order on GPUs, Cadence Systems suggests using a few of them to simulate whether that fancy new bit barn of yours can actually handle the heat.

At the AI Infra Summit this week, simulation savant Cadence added Nvidia's biggest iron, the GB200 NVL72 Superpod, to its digital twin fire. At roughly a megawatt, the compute cluster is among the GPU giant's most complex compute platforms to date.

Each Superpod consists of eight 120 kilowatt NVL72 racks containing more than 500 Blackwell GPUs and 288 Grace CPUs capable of churning out a combined 11.5 exaFLOPS of the lowest-precision compute money can buy.

However, getting the most out of the systems requires a