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Oct 13, 2011 at 12:00 AM EDT
Mercury Computer Systems Announces Industry’s First GPGPU Toolkit and Enhanced Imaging Application Development Capabilities
Mercury Computer Systems Announces Industry’s First GPGPU Toolkit and Enhanced Imaging Application Development Capabilities
“Information is vital to scores of defense and commercial applications. Today, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with multiple sensors stay aloft for long periods of time performing persistent surveillance; manned vehicles perform operator offload functions such as scene and target tracking; and new applications as diverse as border security, fusion and exploitation, and natural resource management, use advanced sensors on remote platforms. These and similar vital programs collect incredibly large quantities of data that must be processed, analyzed and acted on virtually at once,” said Brian Perry, vice president and general manager of Mercury’s Services and Systems Integration (SSI) group.
Major challenges in processing and exploiting sensor information from data-rich applications include combining multiple imaging frames in real-time to create instantly actionable information for the people who need it. Mercury’s new Imaging Toolkit, optimized for maximum performance on GPGPUs, helps customers address these challenges by providing an open framework to integrate and synchronize an array of sensors through the collection of highly efficient imaging functions. GPGPUs, because they are ideal for performing parallel processing/high-bandwidth imaging on large data sets, serve as the math co-processors for the embedded computing subsystems.
Although GPGPUs traditionally have been difficult to program, Mercury’s Imaging Toolkit provides a layer of abstraction between the application and the GPGPU code, insulating developers from the GPGPU implementation details. The algorithms used in the Imaging Toolkit include imaging functions specifically designed to support high-bandwidth data streams from multiple sensors. These are optimized to take full advantage of parallel multicore processing while minimizing data latency, lowering risk, and allowing developers to focus on their application development.
A History of GPGPU Innovation
The Imaging Toolkit leverages Mercury’s seven-year track record of bringing the tremendous processing advantages of GPGPUs to a wide range of defense and commercial applications. Mercury first implemented GPGPUs in 2004 as part of a medical imaging application and continues to deliver numerous GPGPU-based solutions, including a wide range of currently deployed, high-performance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) subsystems.
The first of several customizable toolkits planned by Mercury, the Imaging Toolkit will be enhanced as technology advances require. Mercury’s Services and Systems Integration (SSI) engineers, who perform the customization, engage closely with customers to develop the highest performance subsystems to meet stringent size, weight and power (SWaP) requirements and withstand a wide range of harsh environmental conditions. In addition to using Mercury hardware components, SSI can also work with third-party hardware, software and IP to deliver the optimal subsystem solution for the application.
For more information, visit www.mc.com/gpgpu, or contact Mercury at 866. 627.6951 or info@mc.com.
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. – Where Challenges Drive Innovation®
Mercury Computer Systems (www.mc.com, NASDAQ: MRCY) is a best of breed provider of open, commercially developed, application-ready, multi-INT subsystems for the ISR market. With over 30 years of experience in embedded computing, superior domain expertise in radar, EW, EO/IR, C4I, and sonar applications, and more than 300 successful program deployments including Aegis, Global Hawk, and Predator, Mercury’s Services and Systems Integration team leads the industry in partnering with customers to design and integrate system-level solutions that minimize program risk, maximize application portability, and accelerate customers’ time to market.
Mercury is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors.
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Contact:
Robert McGrail, Director of Corporate Communications
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
+1 978-967-1366 / rmcgrail@mc.com
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