Quantum3D Announces LibertyATX Deployable High-Performance Computing System
LibertyATX Selected by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for GPGPU-Based Sensor Processing for Next-Generation Prototype Ai
Oct. 29, 2007 12:45 PM
SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/29/07 -- Quantum3D®, Inc., a leading provider
of Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS), open-architecture, realtime visual and
special-purpose computing products and solutions, today announced the
availability of a new COTS, Deployable, High
Performance Computing (DHPC) system, Quantum3D LibertyATX(TM).
LibertyATX is a ruggedized, rack-mount system equipped with multiple
NVIDIA® Quadro® FX GPUs, Intel Xeon® CPUs and an Infiniband® switch
fabric that employs
General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU)
processing to deliver teraflop-level performance for deployed,
compute-intensive, realtime signal- and sensor-processing applications that
require parallelism and/or stream processing. Available with storage,
28-VDC power and specialized cooling subsystems that enable the system to
operate in airborne and mobile ground-station environments, LibertyATX is
the first system to bring the power of scalable GPGPU processing to
deployed environments.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the first customer to
employ the new LibertyATX DHPC system. The LLNL LibertyATX DHPC system
includes two airborne-qualified transit cases with 28-VDC airborne Power
Distribution Units, eight Compute Nodes (each with dual Quad-Core Intel®
Xeon® processors and dual NVIDIA® Quadro® FX GPUs), one
Management/Visualization Node, an Infiniband switch fabric and a 100+
terabyte storage subsystem. The system will support airborne realtime
image processing with sensor data rates of up to one gigabyte per second.
"Quantum3D is leveraging the Company's embedded realtime visual computing
expertise to bring the power of GPGPU computing to the deployable HPC
market with our new Liberty DHPC family," said Ross Q. Smith, Quantum3D
Co-founder and President. "LibertyATX is our first deployable COTS HPC
system for piloted surveillance aircraft and ground stations. We are also
developing smaller form-factor DHPC systems that will bring similar
performance to unmanned aerial and ground vehicles and even man-wearable
systems. With the rapid growth in advanced, deployable sensor platforms
that require high-performance, on-board processing to reduce data link
bandwidth requirements, we believe the Liberty DHPC product line is well
poised for widespread adoption."
About Quantum3D
Quantum3D is an industry leading supplier of COTS, open-architecture,
realtime visual computing software and hardware products for the Embedded
Visual Computing (EVC), Deployable High Performance Computing (DHPC),
Visual and Sensor Simulation and Training (VSST) and Embedded Training (ET)
markets. Quantum3D's products include advanced Image Generation (IG)
solutions, realtime scene management software and synthetic environment
content, as well as FAA DO-178B Level A certifiable visual computing
application development and deployment software, and tactical, embedded and
industrial visual computing systems and subsystems for C2/C4ISR, machine
vision, sensor processing, unmanned vehicle operator control and embedded
training applications. Quantum3D is a privately held company headquartered
in San Jose, California. For more information, please visit
www.quantum3d.com.
Quantum3D and the Quantum3D logo are registered trademarks and LibertyATX
is a trademark of Quantum3D, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
Press Contact:
Barbara Stewart
+1 (480) 488-6909 Email Contact
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