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high performance embedded computing

GE Intelligent Platforms has long

been a leader in taking COTS

– commercial off-the-shelf –

technologies and adapting them

for the rigorous requirements of

military organizations around

the world.

technology

COTS: faster access to technology,

lower cost of ownership

The advantages of COTS are many. COTS

solutions allow military organizations to

leverage the latest in commercial technolo-

gies far faster than would otherwise be the

case. COTS solutions are significantly more

cost-effective, because they obviate the

need for extensive upfront investment in

development – and they take advantage

of technologies that are produced on a

commercial scale. A COTS solution can typi-

cally be deployed more quickly, shortening

time-to-market.

Lifetime cost of ownership of a COTS solution

is lower because the vendor takes respon-

sibility for long term support – and COTS

solutions are designed to ease technology

insertion, maximizing performance over the

lifetime of a program. Because COTS solu-

tions are derived from commercially-proven

technologies, they typically feature a high

Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and mini-

mize program risk.

An example of the COTS paradigm in action

is Intel’s range of processors, and notably its

second generation Core processors. Within

nine months of its announcement , Intel

had shipped more than 75 million devices,

widely implemented in servers, desktops and

laptops – as well as in military embedded

computing applications on platforms such

as GE’s Intel Core i7-based SBC626 single

board computer and DSP281 multiprocessor.

Fourth generation Intel Core i7 processors

bring unprecedented performance to a wide

range of applications and, by integrating

advanced graphics – and other – capabili-

ties, enable high performance embedded

computing solutions to be smaller, lighter,

consume less power and dissipate less heat.

GPGPU solves complex problems faster

GPGPU – general purpose computing on a

graphics processing unit – technology is an

excellent example of how military organiza-

tions can leverage technologies originally

designed for commercial and consumer

applications. PC-based game playing has

long driven advances in GPU technology as

gamers strive for ever-greater realism – and

that same search for enhanced realism

has seen GPU technology widely deployed

in military display applications such as

embedded training.

But the inherent high degree of parallelism

that brings ultimate graphics performance

can also be used to deliver other types of

processing – types of processing widely

required in military applications such as

radar, where the requirement is to process

multiple streams of data simultaneously.

Customers using NVIDIA’s CUDA GPU archi-

tecture – such as the 384-core GK107 – for

applications such as SAR simulation, pattern

recognition, object detection and cryptog-

raphy are reporting performance increases

of between 10x and 500x. Using a GPU

to augment the capability of a traditional

CPU can therefore bring real size, weight

and power (SWaP) advantages to high-end

processing systems.

Dual NVIDIA CUDA GK107 GPUs are featured

in the GE Intelligent Platforms IPN251 multi-

processor, combining the power of a GK107

with the performance of a 3

rd

generation Intel

i7 processor for maximum application inte-

gration and flexibility.

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