Roving Reporter: High Performance Embedded Computing Platforms Choices

By: Jerry Gipper, Editorial Director at OpenSystems Media

GE Intelligent Platforms puts such an emphasis on HPEC that they formed a HPEC Center of Excellence. Through this center, GE Intelligent Platforms can engage early with customers to help with architecture definition, develop application-ready systems, and then provide post sales application support and services all with the emphasis on the needs of HPEC applications.

GE Intelligent Platforms discussed the impact of new architectures on SWaP through an example of a radar processing system that they recently developed. The original system, based on VMEbus, was 4 cubic feet in size, weighed 105 pounds, and consumed 2000W of power. The newest system, based on 3U VPX, is 0.8 cubic feet in size, weighs 10 pounds, and consumes 120W of power. The original system delivered 576 GFLOPS peak while the new system delivers 770 GFLOPS peak with a combination of 3rd generation Intel® Core® i7 and GPGPUs.

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