Ensemble 6000 Series Dual AMD GPGPU Processing OpenVPX GSC6201 6U GPGPU Module0 pages

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Ensemble 6000 Series
Dual AMD GPGPU Processing
OpenVPX GSC6201 6U GPGPU Module
Over 4 TFLOPS of high-performance stream processing in a single 6U
OpenVPX slot for rugged environments
•t Industry’s highest performance using latest generation AMD Radeon™ HD 6970M and HD 7970M GPGPU
•t Mercury’s StreamDirect™ for GPGPUs increases overall system efficiency and intelligence gathering

•t Industry standard MXM form factor ensures rapid access to latest generation GPGPUs, including over 4 TFLOPS t
in a single 6U slot with the AMD Radeon HD 7970M
•t Open standards OpenCL™ and Mercury’s Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL™) for optimized, platform-independent t
C/C++ application development
•t Rugged conduction-cooled module exceeds strict VITA 47 standards for shock and vibration to operate in the harshest
environments

The GSC6201 is a 6U OpenVPX™ carrier module that integrates
two high-performance AMD GPGPUs for applications that
can benefit from massively parallel processing on streams of
high-bandwidth data. GPGPUs offer some of the highest GFLOP
processing performance as well as the highest GFLOP/Watt
performance efficiency in the industry.

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Meeting Today’s Processing Demands
Commercial and defense applications such as radar, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), electronic warfare and cyber generate large amounts of raw
sensor or network data that need to be processed in real-time to extract
actionable intelligence. Each new generation of sensor arrays ushers in
higher resolutions and frame rates; along the same lines, network traffic
is also increasing exponentially. Consequently, the input levels from
both of these data streams are now reaching “Big Data” proportions. By
offloading compute-intensive operations to GPGPUs such as Fast Fourier
Transforms (FFTs), matrix multiplication, Constant False Alarm Rate
(CFAR), QR Decomposition (QRD), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), video
codecs (H.264, JPEG2000), pattern recognition or deep packet inspection,
system architects can engineer solutions that can meet today’s processing demands — with room to scale for higher performance requirements
in the future while preserving significant IP investment.

StreamDirect for GPGPUs: Faster Intelligence
Mercury’s StreamDirect writes data directly from the sensor
straight into GPGPU memory, reducing data latency by 50 percent,
thereby allowing the raw data to be processed immediately for
analysis and intelligence. It does this by bypassing the CPU that
previously served as traffic manager. Because the CPU is no longer
the bottleneck, additional sensor/GPGPU processing slices can be
added to the system to significantly increase processing capability
while optimizing for SWaP (size, weight and power).

The GSC6201 is Mercury’s 4th generation 6U dual GPGPU MXM module, backed with a history of field-proven deployments in a number of
defense programs since 2008. Updates to the new GSC6201 include
higher I/O bandwidth, StreamDirect for GPGPUs and support for both
AMD Radeon HD 6970M and HD 7970M.
Figure 1. StreamDirect reduces the time from raw data to
intelligence by 50 percent by writing sensor data directly
into the GPU’s memory for immediate processing