Announced at COMPUTEX 2025, the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins has expanded to support OpenUSD schemas. The blueprint features new tools to simulate more aspects of data center design across power, cooling, and networking infrastructure. Engineering teams can now design and test entire AI factories in a realistic virtual world, helping to catch issues early so they can build smarter, more reliable facilities.
Central to this blueprint is the debut of the SimReady Standardization Workflow, a framework for mapping the essential processes, roles, documentation, and technologies required to implement SimReady assets and capabilities.
Originally developed to help internal teams navigate the unique challenges of building new specifications around OpenUSD assets that are designed for multiple simulation runtimes, NVIDIA is now making this “living resource” openly available. By sharing learnings with the broader ecosystem, NVIDIA aims to help developers streamline their workflows, particularly for optimizing digital data centers in scenarios such as electrical and thermal management, including temperature control and workload efficiency within servers.
SimReady Standardization Workflow
The SimReady Standardization Workflow is industry-agnostic, providing the standardized requirements, templated processes, and key deliverables needed for developing SimReady capabilities. It’s designed to enable developers and data center manufacturers to successfully set up, optimize, and test their own data center digital twins.
This workflow enables developers to:
- Identify and scope simulation domains and scenarios
- Define the essential capabilities their assets need to be effective during runtime
- Create generalized specifications that can be iteratively refined within the OpenUSD platform
OpenUSD assets in the data center
The standardization workflow outlines the process for integrating electrical and thermal cooling attributes into OpenUSD assets for use in data center digital twins and can be used alongside the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins. It includes tools, templates, and best practices to guide you through key steps, including:
- Identifying the simulation domain and defining the critical use-case scenarios
- Assembling cross-functional teams with the necessary skills and expertise to drive SimReady workflows
- Conceptual data mapping for existing standards into OpenUSD
- Conducting gap analysis for areas that are novel or not covered by existing USD schemas
- Establishing an iterative design loop to create and test OpenUSD samples while generating pipelines to automate the production of assets at scale
- Implementing validation workflows to ensure assets meet capability requirements and behave as expected within the simulation environment
The workflow includes downloadable template documentation and reference materials designed to align stakeholders, clarify simulation goals, and facilitate consistent deliverables throughout each stage of the process. As a developer, you can use this resource to create your own SimReady plan that will set your organization up for success in building OpenUSD workflows and digital twins.
Blueprint partners are putting the standardization workflow into practice in collaboration with NVIDIA. ETAP is developing a SimReady specification for electrical data, and Cadence is working on thermal cooling data. The workflow is essential to scale SimReady methodology to meet the requirements of simulating all the operations that are performed in an AI factory.
Get started
Get started with the SimReady Standardization Workflow. The workflow will be continually updated to reflect the latest in OpenUSD and SimReady best practices. To learn more, preview the Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins on build.NVIDIA.com.
To learn more, join NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang for the COMPUTEX 2025 keynote and attend GTC Taipei sessions at COMPUTEX 2025.
Tune in to our upcoming OpenUSD Insiders livestream on May 28 at 11 a.m., Pacific time, for a recap of the Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins and other top physical AI announcements from GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX.
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- Tune into upcoming OpenUSD Insiders livestreams and connect with the NVIDIA Developer Community
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