Parallel computing gets rugged

Graphics and video processing are key elements of many critical embedded systems. The Tech Source Condor GR2 3U VPX is a new rugged 3U VPX form factor graphics/video card with general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) capability, developed specifically for supporting the CUDA parallel computing programming model and the OpenCL programming language. The new card is based on the leading-edge NVIDIA GeForce GTX-850M processor – offering 640 shader units clocked at 876 MHz and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory – and uses NVIDIA’s Maxwell GPU architecture. The Condor GR2 3U VPX graphics/video card is designed for very high performance parallel computing in rugged environments such as avionics, manned and unmanned video streaming, radar, sonar, image analysis, and security/surveillance applications. Selwyn L. Henriques, president and CEO of Tech Source commented, “Our new CUDA-powered VPX card delivers very high GPGPU performance with processing speeds of over 1 teraflop per second, dramatically improving power efficiency, control logic partitioning, workload balancing, clock-gating granularity, and instruction scheduling.”