GE
Intelligent Platforms
High
Performance
Embedded
Computing
introduction
Parallelism has been at the
heart of supercomputing since
the term was first used in the
1960s. Today, supercomputing
has, in many instances, become
high performance computing
but instead of vast rooms full
And now, high performance computing has
come to the world of embedded systems –
and, especially, to the systems being
developed and deployed by the world’s
armed forces. To address the most
demanding and sophisticated applications,
such as ISR and electronic warfare, high
performance embedded computing – HPEC –
uses the power, not just of multiple single
board computers working together, but also
of multi-core and many-core processors.
of mainframe computers all
working together on the same
problem, high performance
computing sees the deploy-
ment of numbers of server-class
machines, each featuring
multiple high performance
processors configured in parallel.
Unique challenges
But HPEC in the military arena presents a
unique set of challenges in two key areas as
a result of how and where these solutions will
be deployed. The first of these is the need to
ensure 100% reliability – in what are often,
literally, life-and-death situations – in the face
of extremes of shock, vibration, temperature
and contaminants. The second is that, increasingly, these solutions are being deployed in
environments that are small, and that need to
minimize weight, power and heat .
Both are fields in which GE Intelligent Platforms is an acknowledged leader. No other
company has GE’s pedigree in the devel-
GE’s HPEC Center of Excellence
GE has established a High Performance Embedded Computing Center of Excellence (CoE)
specifically to support customer demand for high TRL (technology readiness level) COTS
(commercial off-the-shelf) solutions that can shorten time-to-market, minimize cost and
help to eliminate program risk, allowing prime contractors, system integrators and OEMs
to focus on value-add and create competitive advantage. The Center takes advantage of
GE’s COTS Rugged Systems (CRS) capability to support the rapid deployment of systems
to the field.
The HPEC CoE also provides a focus for the future development of a range of powerful, flexible products and solutions for military/aerospace embedded computing.
opment of systems that are truly rugged,
capable of withstanding the rigors of deployment in the harshest environments. And no
other company is able to better GE’s expertise in developing HPEC solutions that are
small, lightweight, consume minimal power
and dissipate minimal heat.
GE is well-known for its ability to develop and
deliver leading-edge single board computers,
multiprocessors, high speed switches and so
on. Much less well known is GE’s ability as a
systems company, able to provide complete,
rugged, ready-to-run subsystems – and a
broad range of supporting services.
Meeting new realities
It’s not just about hardware. In an era of
acquisition reform, without the luxury of
extended, government-funded development
cycles, the onus on development exists with
the supplier. To meet these new realities, GE
provides a complete development environment – AXIS – that reduces development time
and cost and accelerates time to market.
There’s more to GE’s HPEC offering than just
hardware and software, however. GE also
has an unmatched understanding of, and
commitment to, long term support – recognition of the multi-year (multi-decade, even)
lifecycle of the typical military program. That
understanding and commitment is backed
by one of the world’s most respected, most
secure companies.
GE Intelligent Platforms has been a long time
champion of COTS – commercial of-the-shelf –
solutions, because of what they bring to
customers in terms of faster access to new
technologies, high technology readiness levels
(TRL), ease of interoperability through the use
of open standards, reduced program risk and
lower lifetime cost of ownership. Today, GE
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readily works with customers to create
custom variants of those solutions – variants
that combine the advantages of COTS with the
benefits of custom development.
GE is in the business of developing innovative solutions all the time, every time – for the
long term. In an unpredictable world, only
a company of GE’s size, stature, resources
and experience can work with customers to
anticipate needs – and minimize the impact
of the unforeseen.
At the heart of everything GE does is the
deep understanding of what is most important to customers: bringing value-added,
differentiated, high performance, reliable
and cost-effective solutions to market in the
fastest time, at the lowest cost and with the
minimum of risk – thereby creating competitive advantage.
GE knows that this goal is only achieved
through a mutual investment in the relationship and a shared commitment to success.
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software
Overarching GE’s comprehensive
high performance embedded
computing offering is AXIS, an
integrated, sophisticated yet
easy to use software develop-
ment environment that has led
to software development time
being halved, and to software
testing beginning 30% sooner
than would have been achieved
with a ‘hand-crafted’ solution.
AXIS reduces the time taken to develop, test,
debug and optimize complex DSP software
applications based on multiprocessor platforms. Because of the high level of hardware
abstraction it provides, it requires little or
no developer knowledge of the underlying
platform, freeing developers to focus on the
application. As such, it reduces program risk;
it increases productivity; it reduces costs; and
it reduces time-to-market, creating competitive advantage.
Easy, fast, cost-effective
Not only this: AXIS is highly portable, allowing
the easy, fast and cost-effective migration
of a software solution to multiple hardware
platforms as well as simplifying technology
insertion during the lifetime of a program.
AXIS provides support for GE’s latest multicore and many-core hardware platforms
including single board computers featuring
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Generation Intel® Core™ i7 processors as
well as those featuring the latest Power Architecture processors from Freescale, and those
featuring NVIDIA’s CUDA GPGPU (general
purpose processing on graphics processing
units) technology, providing customers with
a highly integrated hard- ware and software
platform that uniquely enables them to take
maximum advantage of the enormous benefits of the latest processing technologies.
As well as support for OpenVPX, AXIS provides
support for VME and VXS systems.
Tuning to meet performance requirements
The AXISPro software suite includes an integrated graphical user interface. AXISView
provides tools for application development
and system visualization. The developer
exploits an iterative application development cycle allowing the user to benchmark
routines and tune the application to meet
performance requirements.
In addition, AXISFlow provides a high performance interprocessor communication library
for high throughput , low latency data movement across multiple fabrics (PCI Express
Gigabit Ethernet , 10 Gigabit Ethernet , InfiniBand and Serial RapidIO etc.) scaling from
one to many CPU cores and nodes across a
single board, multiple boards in and multiple
system chassis.
If open standards are required, then AXISmpi
offers an embedded computing focused MPI
library that will operate across heterogeneous systems.
AXISLib provides DSP and math function
libraries to support very high performance
signal and data processing routines with a
standard VSIPL interface as well as a faster
proprietary API for optimum performance
and portability across multiple processor
platforms. Generic C versions of the libraries
are also available.
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Software: The GE Advantage
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High performance, low overhead RDMA capability using AXISFlow and OFED
software stack.
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Open standard VSIPL and MPI support.
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AXISView GUI enables system visualization and rapid prototyping.
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Signal processing algorithm optimization services.
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Embedded Rugged Systems
Naval Applications
Integrated Display Units
Communications and IFF
Shipboard Network Control
Target Detection & Tracking
Fire Control Computers
Sensor Processing
Aerospace Applications
Remote Interface Units
Network Switch Units
Radar Warning Receivers
Stores Management Computer
Integrated Display Processing
SBCs, DSPs, Graphics, I/O Cards
Mission Management Computers
Navigational Control Units
IFF Controllers
Flight Management Computer
solutions
Few, if any, embedded computing
companies can offer the range of
HPEC solutions that are available
from GE Intelligent Platforms.
In line with GE’s strategy of
enabling customers to enjoy –
and maximize – the benefits that
accrue from COTS solutions, all
of GE’s HPEC offerings are built
around technologies that are
industry standards and that
represent ‘best in class’.
Demanding military applications
Processors come from Intel
industry-leading second generation Core
dual- and quad-core technology, and from
Freescale, a long time significant contributor
to embedded computing. From NVIDIA comes
its CUDA architecture and many-core GPU
(graphic processing unit) processors – not just
for graphics applications, but also for general
purpose use in the most demanding military
applications that can benefit from a high
degree of parallelism, such as radar.
From Mellanox comes InfiniBand and
10 Gigabit Ethernet, switched fabric
communications links used extensively in
high performance computing and enterprise
data centers.
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Ground Vehicle Applications
Network Switch Units
Target Tracking
Embedded Training
Integrated Display Processing
SBCs, DSPs, Graphics, I/O Cards
Situational Awareness
Remote Interface Units
Launcher Control Units
Fire Control Computers
Hull/Turret Compters
Mission Control
Flight Control
Sensor Processing
Vehicle Management
As part of its unwavering commitment to
open industry standards, GE also supports
OpenVPX, an architecture framework that
defines system-level VPX interoperability.
Specifically developed for deployment in
rugged environments, it is the natural heir
to VME, the computer bus standard that has
been at the heart of embedded computing
since the 1980s, and which GE also supports,
along with the CompactPCI industry standard.
Support for industry standards
Along with hardware and technology standards, GE’s range of HPEC solutions also
support industry software standards, such
as Microsoft Windows and Linux, along
with industry standard real-time operating
systems such as VxWorks from Wind River
Systems, Integrity from Green Hills Software
and LynxOS and LinuxWorks.
Software support also comes in the form of
AXIS, GE’s Advanced Multiprocessor Integrated Software development environment
which has been shown to substantially
shorten the development, debug and optimization cycle.
The OFED software stack from the Open
Fabric Alliance is also fully supported,
providing drivers and open standards
interfaces along with RDMA-enabled communications protocols such as OpenMPI, uDAPL
and sockets direct. This allows developers to
leverage the extensive landscape of commercial HPC software.
Extensive HPEC offering
GE’s extensive HPEC offering includes single
board computers such as the SBC626, Based
on the high performance fourth generation Intel Core i7 processor, it features fully
integrated graphics and memory controller
together with dual or quad core processing
up to 2.4 GHz and offers outstanding performance per watt. Coupled with the Intel QM87
chipset, this provides an unmatched level
of I/O bandwidth for both on-board and offboard functions.
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Naval Applications
Integrated Display Units
Communications and IFF
Shipboard Network Control
Aerospace Applications
Remote Interface Units
Network Switch Units
Target Detection & Tracking
Fire Control Computers
Sensor Processing
Radar Warning Receivers
Stores Management Computer
Integrated Display Processing
SBCs, DSPs, Graphics, I/O Cards
Mission Management Computers
Navigational Control Units
IFF Controllers
Flight Management Computer
sonar, image and sensor processing across
a wide range of platforms including manned,
unmanned airborne, ground and naval vehicles. Multiple DSP281s can be interconnected
via InfiniBand or 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric
switches to create powerful HPEC clusters.
For applications that demand an even higher
degree of parallelism, GE has introduced
the IPN251 platform. Each is based around
GE’s DSP281 is the latest in a long line of
multiprocessors designed for the most
demanding ISR applications. Like the SBC626,
it is based on Intel second generation Core
processor technology – but features a dual
quad core architecture, delivering, in effect,
eight CPU cores on a single board and
making it ideal for demanding DSP, radar,
the NVIDIA CUDA GK107 GPU, with its 384
cores. In the case of the IPN251, the GK107
is augmented by an Intel Core i7 processor
operating at 2.4 GHz to create a heteroge-
neous and computationally-dense processing
platform for demanding applications that
are constrained in terms of size, weight and
power (SWaP).
Solutions: The GE Advantage
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HPEC CoE helps with architecture definition, application development and
performance optimization
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Able to deliver short lead time software development platforms with a path to fully
ruggedized deployable systems
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Provide fully software integrated and tested ‘application ready’ solutions
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Provide ‘getting started’ support and training
The IPN251 provides over 750 GFLOPS of
combined CPU and GPU compute power.
They can be built into a multi-board clusters
providing TERAFLOPS of processing power.
Switches, subsystems and more
The other key members of GE HPEC solution
set are the GBX460 10Gigabit Ethernet and the
IBX400 InfiniBand 6U OpenVPX switch fabric
modules (SFMs).
The NETernityTM GBX460 SFM is a fully
managed layer 2/3+ Ethernet switch
supporting up to sixteen payload slots via
10GE data plane (DP) at up to wire speed along
with full control plane(CP) GbE connectivity.
Alternatively, system architects can benefit
from increased bandwidth and reduced latencies by selecting the IBX400 SFM that is slot
compatible with the GBX460 platform. IBX400
can support up to 16 pay load slots with
double data rate (DDR) Infiniband providing
up to 1.8GBytes/s throughput across the
data plane along with the a fully managed
GbE CP interface. Both solutions benefit from
GE’s OFED RDMA enabled processor modules
yielding unprecedented levels of performance
within a standard 6U OpenVPX single or dual
star system architecture scaling to multi-TeraFLOP parallel computing within fully rugged,
deployable platform.
The most recent addition to GE’s HPEC range
is the rapidly-growing family of COTS Rugged
Systems (CRS). Designed for customers who
need to eliminate the expense, time and
risk of custom sourcing and development,
these preconfigured, pretested, ready-torun systems can be deployed in the field as
soon as the application is ready, or used as a
starting point for multiple application-specific
configurations.
GE’s comprehensive HPEC product and system
offering is backed by an extensive infrastructure of customer support programs designed to
ensure that high performance, reliable systems
are deployed in the minimum time, at minimum
cost and with minimum risk.
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technology
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.
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 technologies 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 typically be deployed more quickly, shortening
time-to-market.
Lifetime cost of ownership of a COTS solution
is lower because the vendor takes responsibility for long term support – and COTS
solutions are designed to ease technology
insertion, maximizing performance over the
lifetime of a program. Because COTS solutions are derived from commercially-proven
technologies, they typically feature a high
Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and minimize 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.
GPGPU solves complex problems faster
GPGPU – general purpose computing on a
graphics processing unit – technology is an
excellent example of how military organizations 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 architecture – such as the 384-core GK107 – for
applications such as SAR simulation, pattern
recognition, object detection and cryptography 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.
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Fourth generation Intel Core i7 processors
bring unprecedented performance to a wide
range of applications and, by integrating
advanced graphics – and other – capabilities, enable high performance embedded
computing solutions to be smaller, lighter,
consume less power and dissipate less heat.
Dual NVIDIA CUDA GK107 GPUs are featured
in the GE Intelligent Platforms IPN251 multiprocessor, combining the power of a GK107
with the performance of a 3
i7 processor for maximum application integration and flexibility.
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generation Intel
The most demanding C4ISR and EW applications demand high performance embedded
computing which sees the deployment of
multiple processors of either homogeneous
or heterogeneous types, either on a single
silicon devices, on a single board – or on
multiple boards.
Serial switched fabrics for
high system throughput
This presents two key challenges. The first
is in the intercommunication between the
processors – but here too, GE provides solutions. GE was among the first embedded
computing companies to commit wholeheartedly to the interconnect technology
that has rapidly become the standard for
demanding military applications. VPX – and,
subsequently, OpenVPX – grew out of the
pervasive and hugely successful VME standard, and is an open standard which utilizes
the familiar 3U and 6U card sizes of VME.
It offers true rugged capabilities, including
conduction cooling and resistance to shock
and vibration. At the same time, it offers
higher power budgets, more signal density
and a far faster serial backplane.
GE has also chosen to standardize on two
other open interconnect standards: 10
Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand. 10 Gigabit
Ethernet was chosen not only for its high
performance, but because it is ubiquitous,
supported by a substantial ecosystem of
products, technologies and expertise.
Technology: The GE Advantage
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100% commitment to COTS, industry standards
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Innovator in key technologies such as truly rugged GPGPU, InfiniBand
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Leadership in ruggedization
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Focus on compelling SWaP characteristics, high performance
The Intel/InfiniBand combination is dominant
in the high performance computing clusters
that are often called ‘server farms’ – installa-
tions which deliver massive computing power
by coupling together multiple servers or
blades. With the growing requirement in the
military/aerospace market to gather, process
and disseminate huge volumes of data, those
server farms are increasingly being repli-
cated in defense applications. For customers
looking to create similar profiles, there are
sound commercial as well as technical
reasons why the Intel/InfiniBand combination
is a compelling one.
Software rises to the development challenge
The second challenge is in managing the
multi-faceted complexity of developing
challenging, mission-critical applications on
hardware platforms that can themselves be
complex to master – and to do so in minimum
time and at minimum cost.
Here, GE offers the AXIS – Advanced Multipro-
cessor Integrated Software – development
environment. AXIS is a set of software modules
that can be used to accelerate the design,
development, testing and deployment of
complex DSP and multiprocessing platforms
for real-time applications such as radar, sonar,
communications and image processing.
AXIS allows tough questions – about system
sizing, data movement, algorithm performance, configuration, application mapping
and so on – to be answered quickly and easily,
speeding the cycle of design, development,
test, optimization and validation and reducing
time to market.
GE’s high performance embedded computing
solutions combine the best in COTS technologies with open standards and advanced tools
to make the development and deployment of
demanding ISR applications easier, faster and
more cost-effective.
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applications
Radar
Developers of today’s radars demand that their processing systems be founded
upon the principles of Modular Open System Architecture. Designs must be
scalable, open architecture and capable of sustainment for the long term with
technology insertion plans.
In response, GE has adopted OpenVPX as the primary form-factor, using widely
adopted processors from Intel and NVIDIA, connecting processing clusters with
standard interconnects like Ethernet and InfiniBand, and providing support for
Linux, Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution, MPI, DDS and so on.
Signal Processing
By using the rapid prototyping capabilities of AXISView along with
quick implementation of radar algorithms with VSIPL and VSIPL++,
a signal processing system can readily be modeled to determine
how many processors are needed. GE can produce standard or
custom radar backend processors scalable to dozens of TFLOPS.
Such systems can extend from sensor input via standard interfaces
such as serial FPDP and 10GbE, through processing on clusters
of Intel processors with optional NVIDIA GPGPU co-processing, to
output to a backend system via standard Gigabit Ethernet.
Electronic Warfare
Electronic Countermeasure Systems are typically defined by their need
for low-latency processing. To date this has often required FPGAs to
meet the latency constraints.
Now, GPUs can be considered for such applications. GPUdirect allows
sensor data to be transferred straight into GPU memory, bypassing the
multiple copies and host processor involvement that were previously
required. Testing has shown a reduction in latency of better than 25x,
opening up the use of GPUs in applications that were previously not
candidates. Development time and cost are also reduced.
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Targeting
Targeting pods require increasing processing power to keep up with
increased sensor resolution and added sensors. Typically the system size
is restricted by the existing pod profile and power.
GE’s range of OpenVPX products, spread across 3U and 6U form factors
allow for highly scalable solutions from the smallest to the largest pods.
The AXIS software tools allow seamless scalability of the application
to match the hardware. Gigabit and 10Gigabit Ethernet offer standard
connections between subsystems and to sensor suites.
ISR Visualization
Increasing focal plane array size, faster frame rates and more sensors
being fused mean that more capability is being demanded in the same
or lower size, weight, and power.
GPUs are particularly well suited to processing the large volumes of pixel
data present on today’s ISR platforms. Given the shock and vibration
levels that many ISR platforms are subjected to, GE’s policy of using chipdown designs fits well. The use of high speed fabrics with RDMA allows
the sensor data to be efficiently spread to the processing nodes.
360 Degree Situational Awareness
To acquire, convert, stitch and display video streams from multiple HD
cameras requires considerable compute power. Typically these systems
must be capable of being retrofitted into spaces on vehicles that offer severe
restrictions on size and cooling paths.
By offering a complete range of SBCs, GPUs, Manycore processors
and network interfaces, GE can supply the building blocks for the most
demanding of SA systems. The availability of middleware and application
frameworks speeds the development of the solution.
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product examples
SBC626
6U OpenVPX 4th Gen Intel Core i7-based
Single Board Computer
FEATURES
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6U OpenVPX SBC
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Quad core, 4th Gen Intel Core i7
processor @ up to 2.4 GHz
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Intel QM87 Express Chipset
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Up to 32 GB of DDR SDRAM w/ECC
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Up to 32 GB NAND Flash
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Dual on-board expansion sites
(XMC/PMC)
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Air and conduction cooled versions
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Comprehensive Deployed
Test Software
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Comprehensive Operating
System support
DSP281
6U OpenVPX Deployed Server Platform
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Two Intel Core i7-4700EQ CPUs:
– Four cores, eight threads per CPU
– Two channels ECC 1600-DDR3L
– 16GBytes DDR3L, 32GB future option
– AVX2.0 Advanced Vector Extensions
– HD-4600 on-chip graphics
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Two platform controller hubs:
– 16MBytes BIOS Flash per PCH
– 16GB SATA Nand Flash
– 512KB NVRAM
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Platform Security:
– Configurable Security Hub FPGA
– Intel Trusted Execution
– Intel vPRO / AMT technology
– Intel AES new instructions
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Firmware support:
– Built-in Test
– UEFI BIOS
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Operating System Support:
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– Linux
– Windows
– WRS VxWorks
– WRS Hypervisor
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Middlewares and Libraries:
– AXISPro application development
– AXISLib VSIPL and RSPL multi
– GE signal- and image processing
quick start examples
– Intel OpenCL SDKs, IPP and MKL
SDK
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SDK
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BSP
framework
threaded DSP and math libraries for
VxWorks, Linux & Windows
IPN251
6U OpenVPX GPGPU Multiprocessor
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Open VPX: 6U rugged VITA46/VITA48
REDI/AFT
– Multi-fabric data, expansion and
control planes
– 2x 10 Gigabit Ethernet/InfiniBand
– x16 PCIe Gen 2
– 4x 1-Gigabit Ethernet
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CPU: 3rd Gen Intel Core i7
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GPU: NVIDIA 384-core
“Kepler” EXK107
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XMC Site
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Software
– BIOS, Linux, Windows
– NVIDIA CUDA, OpenCL, OpenGL
– AXISLib-VSIPL Math & DSP libraries
– NVIDIA PhysX
– Matlab
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IBX400
6U OpenVPX InfiniBand Switch
Fabric Module
GBX460
OpenVPX Fully Managed Layer
2/3 10 GigE Switch Module
SCVPX6U-95 series
HPEC Application Ready Platforms
FEATURES
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6U OpenVPX VITA65 Switch Profile
– SLT-SWH-16U20F-10.4.2
– MOD6-SWH-16U20F-12.4.2-10
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DDR InfiniBand Data Plane
– 20 x Fat Pipes
– High throughput, low latency
– In-band subnet management
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Gigabit Ethernet Control Plane
– 16 x Ultra Thin Pipes
– Fully managed layer 2/3
– Ethernet Switch Fabric
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Management Plane
– I2C/BMM Controller
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OpenWare Control Plane
Switch Management
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Layer 2 and layer 3 packet switching
– QoS Priority (IEEE802.1D)
– IPv6 & IPv4 Switching
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End to end RDMA solutions
– 6U OpenVPX SBCs, Multiprocessors,
GPGPU blades and I/O
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Application Ready Platforms
– Fully integrated & tested Linux
clusters for radar, image, signal and
data processing
FEATURES
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6U OpenVPX Compliant: (VITA 65.0)
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VITA 48 (REDI)
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VITA 46.0-2007 (VPX Baseline Standard)
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Switch Profile: SLT6-SWH-16U20F-10.4.2
Data Plane: 20 x 10GigE Ports
Control Plane: 16 x 1 GbE Ports
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Optional Profile: SLT6-SWH-24F-10.4.3
Data Plane: 24 x 10GigE Ports
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Non-Blocking
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Front I/O: Up to four 10GigE Fiber Ports
available for slot profile SLT6-SWH-
16U20F-10.4.2
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Full wire-speed 10GigE Performance
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Ruggedization Build Levels:
– Level 1, 2 & 3 Air Cooled
– Level 4 & 5 Conduction Cooled
– Level 8 Air Cooled VITA 48.5
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RoHS 2002/95/EC Compliant
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Based on high-performance Low
Latency, Ethernet switch fabric from
Fulcrum Microsystems
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IEEE 802.3-2005
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Option for Unmanaged operation
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Hardware enabled IPv6 and
IPv4 support
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OpenWare Switch Management
environment
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Multi-cast Support: IGMP Snooping
Querier and MLD Snooping Querier
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Allows up to 4096 VLANS
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L-3 Protocol support including OSPF,
RIP and VRRP
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6U OpenVPX 5 slot lab
development system
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Single star BK6-CEN05-11.2.5-3
Backplane
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Flexible configuration options with
GE Processors and I/O
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Supports 10GE or InfiniBand data plane
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Fully integrated & tested Linux cluster
with application examples
CRS 48.5
Rugged VITA48.5 Subsystem
FEATURES
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6U OpenVPX 5 slot deployable system
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Modular design supports 10GE or
InfiniBand data plane
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4 payload processor cards with
SSD options
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Fully integrated and tested Linux
cluster with application examples
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support
GE’s Program Management
(PM) service rigorously strives
to eliminate the risk in HPEC
program development and
deployment. From development
of the product requirements and
program schedule to product
qualification and release for
production, GE works closely with
its customers to demonstrate
design and manufacturing prog-
ress as measured against the
program baselines and forecasts.
In the event that stock products cannot meet
customer specifications, GE’s PM staff will
develop a customer-centric plan to shepherd
the product development from prototype to
production. Price change risk is eliminated
because GE’s initial quote remains the price
until delivery.
Reduction of risk and cost
In addition, GE’s contract change management service reduces costly change orders
by ensuring that every change has been
formally approved by the customer and that
a separate purchase order has been issued
to reflect that change.
The PM service also provides the documentation of risk management that contractors can
provide to higher-tier contractors who want
to know that systems will be delivered on
time and exactly to specification.
Effective Product Lifecycle management (PLM)
ensures that parts are available to service
routine and emergency maintenance – whatever the duration of the proposed deployment.
A PLM program can also anticipate technology
advances and thus allow for upgrades to
embedded technology with a minimum of
hardware or software disruption.
The result is the highest level of repeatable
performance at the lowest possible cost
of ownership across a program’s lifecycle.
GE’s long-established PLM team maintains
close contact with component suppliers and
industry groups such as the Component
Obsolescence Group to constantly monitor
technology developments and component
obsolescence issues.
Progressive and defensive
long term support
At the heart of the program is a dedication
to providing both progressive and defensive
long term support. ‘Progressive’ support
begins on the design table, with embedded
products being designed for maximum
compatibility or upgradability even before
they are qualified for a system.
The list of critical components will include
only those elements for which vendors have
committed to a long-term production run. After
a product is launched, ‘defensive’ PLM provides
the technical support and service to keep
the product running, as well as ensuring that
sufficient stores of spare parts are available to
avoid the premature shutdown of a system or
even the entire platform.
When technology obsolescence occurs in
the marketplace, GE’s Health Check program
will alert the customer and provide possible
solutions such as a last-time buy of the
components, an appropriate replacement
component, a redesign of the original product
for form, fit, or function compatibility, technology insertion earlier than planned or a
lifetime purchase of the components.
When components are purchased in bulk, GE
also can provide secure, climate-controlled
storage for as long as required by the
customer. Long-term product lifecycles
demand that critical engineering knowledge
is available regardless of personnel changes
or corporate restructures. Similarly, testing,
diagnostic and repair capabilities must be
maintained. GE Intelligent Platforms’ PLM
program ensures that such knowledge,
protocols and capabilities are available
throughout the lifecycle of any program.
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