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GE Introduces New Platform For Video, GPGPU Applications

By TechTaffy Desk

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GE has introduced a high performance GRA112 3U VPX rugged graphics board. Designed for demanding graphical applications as well as GPGPU (general purpose computing on a graphics processing unit) applications such as ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance), radar and sonar, it features a 384-core NVIDIA Kepler architecture-based EXK107 GPU. Also provided is 2 GB of GDDR5 memory .

Kepler is the latest generation of GPU technology from NVIDIA. Previous GE products, including the NPN240and IPN250, were based on earlier NVIDIA architectures, and upgrades to these platforms will be coming later in the year.

Availability of the pin-compatible GRA112 also provides a technology insertion upgrade path for users of the MAGIC1 Rugged Display Computer, which currently features the GRA111 processor.

You can download a data sheet here.

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