January 2010 - Embedded Insider Newsletter
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| VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1 |
JANUARY 2010 |
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| BARRY DERRICK , PRODUCT MARKETING
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The real attraction of GPGPU technology is the fact that sophisticated, very high performance applications can be deployed in a fraction of the platform size and weight, and with substantially less power consumption and heat dissipation than would be required for a "traditional" solution with the same compute capability. It is not unreasonable to believe that this reduction in SWaP could be by a factor of ten – and can translate into, for example, unmanned vehicles with greater range, a larger payload, and increased mission duration. Best of all, the performance improvements of GPGPU are accessible to almost everyone because of the NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture, which allows you to program in C. CUDA is described by NVIDIA as a general purpose parallel computing architecture that leverages the parallel compute engine in NVIDIA GPUs, and includes the CUDA Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). Over 100 million CUDA-enabled GPUs have been sold to date, and thousands of software developers are already using the free CUDA software development tools.
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 Thanks to our partnership with NVIDIA®, you can now take advantage of massively parallel GPGPU processing in rugged applications such as radar, sonar, image processing and software defined radio. General Purpose processing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) offers potentially huge performance improvements for these types of applications.
GPGPU is ideal for applications like sensor processing, graphics and image processing, which require substantial amounts of data to be processed (or smaller amounts of data to be repeatedly processed), and where that data can be processed simultaneously in parallel, rather than sequentially.
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VPX |
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GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has secured an order from General Dynamics Land Systems for 3U VPX single board computers, graphics processors, disk subsystems and switches in support of GDLS’s work on the Abrams Evolutionary Design (AED) program for the M1A2 tank. Importantly, all these GE Fanuc products comply with the REDI (Ruggedized Enhanced Design Implementation) VITA 48 standard. |
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REFLECTIVE MEMORY |
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Reflective Memory networks provide the highly deterministic, tightly timed performance necessary for a variety of distributed simulation and industrial control applications. These solutions cater to applications where determinism, implementation simplicity, integration of dissimilar hardware platforms running different operating systems, and a lack of software overhead are key factors. |
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COMPANY NEWS |
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On December 11 2009, the agreement to dissolve the GE Fanuc Automation joint venture was finalized, and we are now known as GE Intelligent Platforms. The joint venture was formed in another era to help two companies globalize and cooperate on PLC and CNC technology, which at the time were primarily focused only on discrete automation. The JV was very successful in this mission. |
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CALENDAR
Upcoming Events, Seminars, Workshops |
| Where in the world is GE Intelligent Platforms? Just take a look you might be surprised to find that we will be in your neck of the woods in the very near future. Come find out what we’re up to at these upcoming events. |
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| Date |
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| January 26 |
RTECC |
Santa Clara, CA |
| February 15-17 |
Defense Expo |
New Delhi, India |
| April 6-8 |
SPIE |
Orlando, FL |
| May 3-6 |
OTC |
Houston, TX |
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