Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces NVIDIA GPGPU OpenVPX Engine

By DE Editors

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced its first general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) multi-core engine, the VPX6-490 GPU Application Accelerator.

The VPX6-490 features dual NVIDIA GPUs based on the NVIDIA Fermi architecture, each with 240 CUDA cores. Integrated into a High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) subsystem, VPX6-490 functions as a co-processor attached to a host Intel-processor board and takes advantage of the new PCIe Expansion Plane definitions in the VITA 65 OpenVPX standard to provide off the shelf backplane support for high-speed interconnection between pairs of SBC/GPU.

“The VPX6-490 uniquely brings NVIDIA’s new 240 core graphics processors to the rugged deployed environment, providing system integrators with the highest performance GPGPU embedded building blocks available,” says Lynn Bamford, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Combined with our OpenVPX single board computers, FPGA engines and FMC I/O modules, we now offer the industry’s most comprehensive and highest performance GPGPU solution for the most demanding HPEC applications.”

The VPX6-490 takes advantage of GPUs based on the NVIDIA Fermi architecture.

For more information, visit Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing and NVIDIA.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.