Overview

Transform Your Data Center Design and Operations

With the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform, you're not merely designing or optimizing a data center—you're transforming it. Leverage the unparalleled power of digital twin technology to create performance-driven designs and make insightful operational decisions. Cadence Reality DC empowers you to achieve performance-aware design and operational planning, allowing designers, owners, and operators to balance reliability and efficiency seamlessly. Experience a virtual, easy-to-use environment where innovation meets precision, ensuring your data center operates at its peak potential.

Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform

Achieve excellence in data center design and management with a comprehensive, intuitive portfolio

Data Center Design Data Center Insight Data Center Asset Twin Data Center Digital Twin
Data Center Design Data Center Insight Data Center Asset Twin Data Center Digital Twin

Key Benefits

The Next Generation of Data Center Design and Operations Starts Here

Ensure Sustainable Data Center Design and Operations

Prioritize sustainable data center design and operations with carbon usage analytics and energy efficiency reports

Visualize Data Center Design and Performance

Visualize data center design layout, airflow, cooling, power, and the impact of changes on operations in a digital twin using simulation

Collaborate Across Teams and Align Management Efforts

Organize large volumes of data, track changes, and automate reports to ensure the right data gets to the right stakeholders

Encourage a Proactive Software-Based Approach

Streamline resource utilization planning, meet service level agreements (SLAs), and gain actionable insights

Applications

Seamless Solutions for Advanced Data Center Management

  • Capacity Planning and IT Deployment

    Manage and track IT moves, installs, and decommissions within the data center. Empowering IT and facilities teams with customizable dashboards that show data center performance metrics and automated reports with actionable insights.


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  • Maximize Data Center Operational Performance

    Your physical data center replicated in a virtual world. Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin is calibrated to accurately reflect its physical counterpart. The data center solution combines a detailed digital twin model with a powerful computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver. CFD unveils the causes of data center cooling issues and ensures that cooling solutions can be tested before implementation in the physical data center. This offers data center operators additional insight, accessed via a user-friendly platform, to make informed decisions on capacity utilization, energy efficiency, and risk. Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin can be connected to live data and customer workflows to keep it automatically updated for smooth data center management.

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Optimized Data Center Design and Operations
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Maximize Data Center Operational Performance

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Customer stories

Discover Inspiring Success Stories Enabled by the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform

Switch Provides Unparalleled Exascale Data Center Solutions with Cadence and NVIDIA
NV5, NVIDIA, and Cadence Collaboration Optimizes Data Center Efficiency, Performance, and Reliability
Larsen & Toubro Builds Data Centers with Effective Cooling

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Capabilities

Digital Twin Solutions for Data Center Design and Operations

Cadence data center solutions virtualize the entire data center ecosystem.

Maximize Data Center Energy Efficiency

Make sustainable decisions with carbon usage analytics and energy efficiency reporting data to support cost and carbon footprint reduction. Visualize the facility’s performance with industry metrics, including ASHRAE standards, power usage effectiveness (PUE), and SLA compliance. Access carbon usage analytics and energy efficiency reports to help teams make sustainable decisions.

Safeguard Your Data Center with CFD

Cadence Reality Digital Twin combines a detailed digital twin model with a powerful CFD solver. The digital twin model is calibrated to reflect its physical counterpart accurately. Test deployment options and failure scenarios in the digital twin using CFD to study different power, loading, and cooling scenarios.

Enhance Capacity Visualization and Resource Utilization

Calculate resource availability across a wide range of metrics, including power and cooling, to validate IT placement and optimize space. Study the implications of different power, loading, and cooling scenarios.  Assess the impact of upcoming IT deployment projects on data center capacity and resources across a wide range of metrics. Visualize your data center capacity, validate IT placement, and optimize data center space and cooling.

Facilitate Cross-Team Collaboration

Combine data from multiple disparate sources to streamline individual and collective management efforts via one user-friendly platform, including environmental monitoring systems, ticketing software, 15+ data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools, and more.

Cooling Strategies for Optimized Operations

Modernize legacy data centers and optimize new data centers. With flexible modeling capabilities, model any data center configuration, including various cooling strategies, such as raised floors, non-raised floors, fan walls, both indirect and direct adiabatic evaporative cooling, and liquid cooling solutions.

Products

Data Center Solutions for Design and Operations Using Digital Twin Technology and Physics-Based Simulation

Cadence Reality DC Design

Design the next generation of data centers inside and out with physics-based simulation software.

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  • Prioritize sustainable data center design with carbon usage analytics and energy efficiency reports
  • Essential Package: Entry-level for conceptual design with eight-core solving
  • Model the power network to show RPP and PDU schedules, breaker overloads, phase balance, and more
  • Model any modern control system using temperature, pressure, humidity, or velocity sensors
  • Export photorealistic images and movies in gif, mp4, and other formats to demonstrate design performance
  • Streamline modeling and reporting with smart items, solver automation, and single-click reporting Software
  • Simulate chilled water distribution, liquid cooling, or ducted air with the inbuilt flow network
  • Advanced Package: For modeling complex data centers with 32-core solving and 3D CAD/BIM integration
  • Pro Package: Comprehensive suite with 32-core solving, power flow modeling, and task automation

Cadence Reality DC Insight

Data center management solution for capacity planning and resource management to maximize operational performance.

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  • Traffic light system advises on IT placement based on IT requirements and rack resource availability
  • Customize shareable reports that visualize key metrics, such as data center power and space
  • Manage power connectivity with key metrics, such as circuit phase type, distribution voltage, and more
  • Use data on port-to-port connections and connections between devices to analyze data network
  • Coordinate IT deployments through a virtual loading bay where users can view and deploy available assets
  • Simulate airflow and cooling with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to optimize performance with Cadence
  • Empower operators with insights on power, space, weight, and network capacity
  • Extend with Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin using powerful CFD for examining cooling issues and airflow management

Cadence Reality DC Digital Asset Twin

Optimize your data center operations with Cadence Reality DC Asset Twin, a comprehensive solution designed for effective asset management that tracks IT deployments and resolves layout issues. This program provides actionable insights and customizable dashboards in a user-friendly web portal that serves as a searchable archive, empowering operators to effortlessly manage power, space, weight, and network port capacity.

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  • Operational Insights: View all IT deployment plans and visualize resource impacts.
  • Automatic Updates: Populate the model with smart library items as IT and cabinets are deployed.
  • Layout Troubleshooting: Identify and resolve data center layout issues.
  • Capacity Utilization: Utilize live dashboards to maximize asset performance and share insights.
  • Live Data Visualization: Control costs, reduce risk, and align teams with real-time insights.
  • “Go or No-Go” Assessment: Easily deploy IT with a centralized assessment system.
  • Comprehensive Planning: Visualize power, space, weight, and network capacity for IT deployment and decommissioning.
  • Power & Data Port Management: Monitor panel phase balance, breaker loading, and failure analysis.
  • Data Integration: Connect data from DCIM, environmental monitoring, ITSM, ticketing software, and spreadsheets for automatic updates.

Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin

Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin is the ultimate virtual replica of your physical data center that combines a detailed digital twin model with computational fluid dynamics (CFD), offering unparalleled insights into cooling issues and deployment scenarios. With capabilities to connect to live data and customer workflows, Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin keeps your data center management seamless and up-to-date.

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  • Enhanced Capacity Visualization: Validate IT placement and optimize space with resource availability metrics
  • Safeguard Data Center with CFD: Test deployment and failure scenarios for different power, loading, and cooling options
  • Maximize Energy Efficiency: Make sustainable decisions with carbon usage analytics and energy efficiency reporting
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Streamline management efforts by combining data from multiple sources
  • Simulation Insights: Includes all Cadence Reality DC Asset Twin features plus CFD-solving capabilities
  • Industry Metrics Visualization: Monitor performance with ASHRAE, PUE, and SLA compliance metrics
  • Task Automation: Schedule simulations, report generation, and updates
  • 3D Visualizations: Plot space, cooling, and power views at various levels
  • Data Integration: Connect with environmental monitors, ticketing software, DCIM, and more
  • Network Connections: Build and import connections between ports like patch panels and servers
  • Load Analysis: Analyze phase load balance, output power, breaker panel load, and schedules

features

Unleash Data Center Excellence with Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform

Feature name Description
Visual Data Center Layouts
  • Visualize data center layouts in a safe, virtual environment for better planning and decision-making.
  • Enhance capacity visualization with detailed 3D models.
Performance-Aware Design
  • Create precise digital twin models for both existing and future data centers.
  • Explore multiple configurations and failure scenarios with virtual simulations.
Optimized Operational Decisions
  • Maximize resilience, physical capacity, and cooling efficiency to slash costs and minimize failures.
  • Prioritize energy efficiency and performance optimization through intuitive web-based portals.
Sustainability and Efficiency
  • Prioritize sustainability goals with analytics and energy efficiency reporting.
  • Achieve operational excellence with sustainability-focused design and operational decisions.
Collaboration and Insights
  • Streamline collaboration with real-time tracking, virtual loading bays, and cross-team coordination.
  • Gain actionable insights through comprehensive analytics and visualized key metrics.
Asset Management with Cadence Reality DC Asset Twin
  • Manage power, space, weight, and network port capacity effortlessly with a user-friendly web portal.
  • Track IT deployments, resolve layout issues, and visualize deployment impacts on resources.
Detailed Cooling Insights with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Gain unparalleled insights into cooling issues and deployment scenarios.
  • Test and optimize cooling strategies before physical implementation.
Seamless Integration and Connectivity
  • Connect to live data and customer workflows for up-to-date data center management.
  • Integrate with environmental monitoring systems, ticketing software, and data center infrastructure management tools.
Customizable Dashboards and Reporting
  • Create customizable dashboards that display key metrics and insights.
  • Generate automated reports to streamline the modeling and reporting process.
Virtual Environment for Safe Testing
  • Test deployment options, failure scenarios, and cooling strategies in a risk-free virtual environment.
  • Evaluate design resilience and optimize for maximum efficiency and reliability.

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