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Thornton Tomasetti Benchmarks NVIDIA’s New Blackwell GPU Using CORE.Matrix
October 14, 2025

Robert
Otani
Managing Principal & Chief Technology Officer


In its press release Mini Footprint, Mighty AI: NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture Powers AI Acceleration in Compact Workstations, NVIDIA referenced Thornton Tomasetti’s role in testing and validating the performance of the new RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell GPU. Chief Technology Officer Rob Otani shared that the team benchmarked the hardware on CORE.Matrix, the firm’s in-house GPU-based finite element analysis solver, achieving almost three times faster performance than the previous generation and 27 times faster than a standard CPU. The collaboration underscores Thornton Tomasetti’s commitment to advancing computational design and the work of CORE Studio in driving innovation across AEC technology.