Curtiss-Wright Adds NVIDIA GPGPU Processor Module to OpenVPX
On April 29, 2021, Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division introduced its first 3U OpenVPX GPGPU processor module designed in compliance with the U.S. Army CCDC C5ISR Center’s C4ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) and aligned with standards currently being defined by The Open Group - Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium.
Developed to support compute-intensive ISR and EW systems, this fully rugged SOSA-aligned variant of the VPX3-4935, an NVIDIA Quadro Turing-based GPGPU processor card module, is the latest addition to Curtiss-Wright’s growing roster of CMOSS-compliant/SOSA aligned hardware.
The SWaP-optimized VPX3-4935 is ideal for accelerating tensor/matrix computation used for deep learning neural network inference used in deployed artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications requiring TFLOPS of accelerated processing. These applications include high-performance radar, SIGINT, EO/IR, data fusion ingest, processing and display, and autonomous vehicles.
New SOSA-aligned GPGPU modules expand Curtiss-Wright’s family of high-performance size, weight, and power (SWaP)-optimized embedded computing (HPEC) processors for AI/ML applications.
