SOLUTION BRIEF

SOLUTION BRIEF

Executive Summary
Wireless communication and sensing are key
components of most electronic products andservices. Mobile 5G/6G, radar, or radio have brought
about valuable services since the early days of theApple iPhone. Today, these capabilities continuallyare finding new applications, from autonomous
driving, 5G wireless communications, gesturerecognition, detailed radar imaging, smart cities,
smart agriculture, disaster response, remotehealthcare, next generation entertainment, andAR/VR.
Powered by Ansys HFSS, the Ansys Perceive EM
solver optimizes radio access network design in realworld conditions with elevated predictive accuracy.
Combined with digital twin simulation in NVIDIA
Omniverse, Ansys Perceive EM further shortens thetime-to-market for these products and services.
Supermicro partnered with Ansys to design a solution reference architecture using Supermicro’s scalable GPU system
supporting 8 NVIDIA L40S GPUs, which is optimized and validated for Perceive EM applications. This will minimize GPU server
acquisition time while ensuring more predictable and effective performance.
Together, Supermicro collaborated with NVIDIA to bring real-time photorealistic rendering and accurate EM/RF simulation into
digital twins.

Simulation Time (mS) lower is better

Simulation Time in milliseconds, based on number of L40S GPUs
Ansys Perceive EM Solver on Supermicro SYS-521GE-TNRT Server

For Products & Services using RF and EM

The Ansys Perceive EM Solver is a new field solver productthat has the power to simulate RF sensors at real-time
speeds and real-time channel polling rates. It is specificallytailored for modeling RF propagation in large virtualenvironments, and through its seamless API integration
with NVIDIA Omniverse, users can simultaneously evaluate
multipledomains,including
radar,wideband
communication channels, RF interference, and radio
1248sensing, all within the same simulator. This ability totime (mS) SYS-521GE-TNRT Server
Number of NVIDIA L40S GPUssimin Supermicrocollect immediate feedback on the performance andfunctionality of RF systems in accurate bespoke
environments will enable engineers to become even more efficient with projects such as optimizing layouts for telecom
systems, designing radar sensors, and much more.
7006005004003002001000Simulation on768 Radar Channels in Large CityAnsys Perceive EM and NVIDIA Omniverse
Ansys Perceive EM is made for customers developing wireless communication solutions, such as modeling signal propagation
through structurally dense environments like cities, factories, mountain/river terrain and for simulating radar systems. The
Ansys Perceive EM Solver is specifically tailored for RF and EM domains, and through its API integration with NVIDIA Omniverse,
users can simultaneously evaluate multiple domains, including radar signal bandwidth, all within the same simulator. Using
Perceive EM, customers can create an end-to-end communication environment simulation, which can be incorporated into
NVIDIA Omniverse, simulating dynamic scenarios with moving actors.

Ansys Perceive EM, Accelerated by GPUs
Using GPUs like the NVIDIA L40S, Ansys Perceive EM provides real-time high-frequency electromagnetic simulations, such as
automotive radar and wireless 5G communications. Perceive EM sends out rays in the simulation, propagates electromagnetic
energy through the scene, radiates to receivers, and computes full wireless channel models on the GPUs using CUDA andNVIDIA’s RT cores.
Customers can integrate Perceive EM into their workflow via an API or purchase it as part of the Ansys RF Channel Modeler(RFCM) solution for wireless communications or in the Ansys AVxcelerate solution for automotive radar and autonomous driving
applications.
As shown in the chart above, adding GPUs significantly shortens simulation time, providing more real-time response. This is
critical for dynamic environments where radar and 5G wireless systems must respond to the behavior of other actors at realtime rates with many updates per second.

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Supermicro offers the following choices to support up to 8 NVIDIA L40S to run Ansys Perceive EM and NVIDIA Omniverse.

4U AMDth
4 Gen EPYC
AS -4124GS-TNRT
Up to 6TB of memory
4 x NVMe U.2
12 x PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 slots, 1 x
PCIe Gen 5.0 x8 slot

5U Intel
4th/5th Gen Xeon Scalable(Extended thermal)
SYS-521GE-TNRT
Up to 8 TB of memory
8 x NVMe U.2
13 x PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 slots

Reference Solutions
Component
P4X-SPR8462Y+-SRMGP-MCC
MEM-DR564L-CL02-ER56
HDS-MMN-MTFDKBA960TFR-15
HDS-TUN-KCD8XRUG3T84
GPU-NVL40S
AOC-653106A-HDAT
SFT-DCMS-SINGLE

SYS-521GE-TNRT
X13 5U 8GPU SAPPHIRE RAPIDS GEN5 PCIE DUAL ROOT SYS
Description
SPR 8462Y+ 2P 32C 2.8G 300W(32/2.6/270,24/3/270)60M
64GB DDR5 5600 ECC REG---MEM-DR564L-CL02-ER56
Micron 7450 PRO 960GB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 TCG Opal 2.0, 1DWPD
Kioxia CD8 3.84TB NVMe PCIe 4x4 2.5" 15mm SIE 1DWPD,HF,RoHS
NVIDIA Ada L40S 48GB GDDR6 PCIe Gen 4th---GPU-NVL40S
2-ports 200Gb HDR 200GbE QSFP56 Mellanox CX-6 VPI, Gen4 x16 LP
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Supermicro offers systems that support 8 NVIDIA L40S GPUs, with a choice of Intel or AMD CPUs. Ansys Perceive EM has
demonstrated nearly perfect scaling on these systems as more L40S GPUs are added. The combination of Supermicro hardware,
Ansys software, and NVIDIA GPUs provides real time wireless communication and radar simulations, enabling scalable, physicsbased sensor simulation of dynamic, dense environments critical to current and next generation products. Ansys Perceive EM
can be combined with NVIDIA Omniverse to enable faster time to market for these wireless products and services, which are
critical to developing accurate and responsive communication networks and radar digital twins that deliver results at the speedof real life.
For more information:
Supermicro 5U 8-GPU Server
Ansys RF Channel Modeler
Ansys Perceive EM

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solutions to the data center, cloud computing, enterprise IT, big data,
HPC, and embedded markets. Our Building Block Solutions® approachallows us to provide a broad range of SKUs, and enables us to build anddeliver application-optimized solutions based upon your requirements.

For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators
across industries to push boundaries with the predictive power ofsimulation. From sustainable transportation and advanced
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powered by Ansys.

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