Dassault Systèmes and Vertiv Team to Accelerate AI Factory Design and Deployment

Dassault Systèmes and Vertiv have announced a technical collaboration to configure, simulate, and validate artificial intelligence factory infrastructure prior to physical deployment. The partnership targets high-density computing environments, providing virtual twin and model-based systems engineering frameworks for facilities designed around the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design and NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint.

Operational Complexity and Cross-Disciplinary Dependencies
Artificial intelligence data centers operate as tightly coupled thermodynamic and electrical systems. Unprecedented server rack power densities mean that variations in thermal dissipation, fluid flow, power distribution, and dynamic compute workloads directly impact adjacent subsystems. Designing mechanical, electrical, and control domains independently introduces significant field integration friction, extended commissioning schedules, and expensive late-stage design modifications. Addressing these challenges requires pre-construction multiphysics modeling to verify system performance across interdependent domains before ground breaking.

Technical Architecture and Virtual Twin Integration
The engineering framework pairs Vertiv’s physical infrastructure designs with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Dassault Systèmes provides the core model-based systems engineering, computational simulation, and virtual twin environment. Vertiv integrates its pre-engineered SimReady power and cooling reference models alongside Vertiv OneCore, a hybrid-built facility architecture that combines critical power trains, heat-rejection systems, and automated control infrastructure.

Within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, physical assets are represented as configurable system-level digital models. Engineering teams can evaluate facility layouts, perform cross-disciplinary multiphysics simulations, and propagate architectural revisions across power, fluid dynamics, and spatial models simultaneously. Any alteration to thermal management or electrical bus distribution automatically maps downstream implications across the entire infrastructure envelope, preserving design intent from initial configuration through to commissioning.

Deployment Verification and Operational Metrics
The integrated modeling environment directly interfaces with standard engineering workflows to generate verified design deliverables and commissioning configurations. By front-loading engineering validation to the digital design stage, the workflow eliminates physical trial-and-error during on-site assembly and testing.

Operational modeling benchmarks established by Vertiv indicate that this model-based methodology accelerates initial configuration and validation timelines by up to 10x compared to conventional workflows. The streamlined transition cuts defined infrastructure deployment durations by up to 50 percent, advancing facility commissioning by approximately 10 weeks against conventional engineering baselines. In modeled scenarios, earlier facility energization enables up to 30 percent higher cumulative token output across the initial 12-month project cycle at equivalent installed compute capacities, driven entirely by accelerated facility readiness.

Edited by Romila DSilva, Induportals Editor, with AI assistance.