Graphics Board brings supercomputing to military.

sixer9682

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I found this to be pretty interesting.



Graphics Board brings supercomputing to harsh environments.

November 24, 2009 - Enabling embedded supercomputing for military and aerospace applications, GRA111 features NVIDIA® GT 240 CUDA-capable GPU and is optionally available as Line Replaceable Module (LRM) in accordance with VPX-REDI (VITA 48) standard. This 3U, OpenVPX-compatible graphics board has dual independent channels that enable driving of RGB analog component video, digital DVI 1.0, and HDMI standards. Also, video input capability allows integration of sensor data using RS170, NTSC, or PAL formats...


NVIDIA's CUDA is a general purpose parallel computing architecture that takes advantage of the parallel compute engine in NVIDIA GPUs to solve many computational problems in a fraction of the time required on a general purpose CPU. It includes the CUDA Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and the parallel compute engine of the GPU.

CUDA has been shown to deliver a 100x increase in speed in a broad range of applications that lend themselves to parallel computing. Early tests at GE Fanuc have shown that military applications can benefit from similar increases in speed. A major prime contractor in the military/aerospace industry has evaluated the CUDA architecture in a radar system, and found that performance improvement of 15x is achievable with minimal reprogramming effort. Other prime contractors are expressing substantial interest in the technology.

The 3U format GRA111 derives much of its astonishing performance from the 96 cores, 128-bit memory interface, 1 GByte of DDR3 video memory, 16-lane PCI Express Gen 2 interface, 540MHz graphics clock and 1,302MHz processor clock of the NVIDIA GT 240 GPU.

More information from: www.gefanuc.com/gpgpu
 
The only problem is, we have to wait for applications to take advantage of this technology. Games as well.
 
What I found interesting is the Nvidia's push into the CPU market with it's GPU. If it gains enough backing from the DOD or NSF etc. it's got a foot in the door of an area it's been interested in for a while now.
 
All I can say is more competition. AMD and especially Intel need some more competitors in the market.
 
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