Nullspace FAQs


What type of simulation software does Nullspace develop?

Nullspace develops and commercializes simulation software for electromagnetics applications for defense, aerospace, communications, automotive and quantum computing industries.

What are the advantages of simulation in product development?

Cutting-edge RF technologies, like novel antennas and radars, are complex electromagnetic systems that are challenging to design and test.

Simulation software allows engineers to simulate real physical phenomena in order to design future technologies faster, cheaper, and more effectively than relying on physical testing and prototyping alone.

What are the products available?

Nullspace EM – EM simulation solver designed for solving electrically large EM problems for RF product design, ideal for design optimizations, parametric studies, and uncertainty analysis due to the speed of simulation.

Nullspace Prep – CAD and meshing pre-processor that integrates with Nullspace EM and ES.

Nullspace ES – The world's only commercial electrostatic solver for extremely large-scale design and analysis for quantum computing applications

What is the advantage of Nullspace?

As we expand commercial space flight and communication systems, advance our defense technologies, and further automate manufacturing and transportation - all of these ventures will require more advanced antenna and radar systems than what we have to date.

Designing cutting-edge RF systems requires advanced computer simulation that accurately represents real-world electromagnetic phenomena. The simulation solutions on the market today have been developed over 40 years ago, before current computational resources of CPUs and GPUs were available. These tools simply are not able to keep up as the RF devices get more and more sophisticated and simulations become much larger problems to solve.

Nullspace solvers have been designed and thoroughly validated for 10+ years, specifically for electrically-large problems. They have also been developed to natively scale across multiple computer cores and GPUs, making the simulations run over 25x faster than currently available codes.

Nullspace solvers boast:

  • Unique, proprietary fast linear algebra libraries

  • Proprietary compression algorithms

  • Multi-CPU and Multi-GPU acceleration

  • High-order geometry

  • High-order physics

  • Flexible Python API

What are the system requirements?

Windows 10

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8+ or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x

NVIDIA GPU Kepler or later

And that’s it! Yes, you can run many simulations on a standard laptop.

What type of license is needed to run Nullspace?

We offer both lease and paid-up licenses and annual maintenance that provides users with technical support and our quarterly releases of Nullspace tools.

Contact us for a demo and a quote.

How many cores are needed to run Nullspace?

As many as you have access to!

Nullspace software has been developed from the ground up to scale across multiple cores, so users can run large optimization and uncertainty analysis problems.

Currently, a license is needed per compute node used for a simulation. Each compute node can have as many cores and GPUs as users want.

Is there a free trial?

Absolutely. We offer a 1-month free trial to any qualified future customers.

Are there any other resources available?

Nullspace software comes with a User Guide with step-by-step instructions on how to set-up and run examples for multiple applications.

We have also launched a new YouTube channel that is being regularly updated with new step-by step tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@NullspaceInc

What are the limitations to run Nullspace student version?

There are no limitations to the student version! All three of Nullspace’s co-founders hold PhDs in engineering and have a great appreciation for academic institutions.

Nullspace has an academic program offering our tools to qualifying university students, professors and researchers at a nominal cost. This cost can be waived in exchange for the academic group providing application examples or technical paper references.