GPUs

Unprecedented Performance

GPUs (Graphical Processing Units), offer very high GFLOP/Watt performance. Although traditionally used in laptops/desktops for gaming applications, GPUs feature superior computation and memory bandwidth over general purpose microprocessors. They excel at highly parallel, compute intense applications, such as streaming signal/image applications With recent architectural advancements, the algorithmic scope to which GPUs can be applied has grown dramatically. For traditional signal processing algorithms like the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform), they provide unprecedented performance, particularly performance per watt.

Improving Processing and Exploitation

GPUs can now be leveraged against the processing and exploitation requirements of growing markets like signals intelligence and oil & gas exploration, with outstanding results. Industry performance benchmarks implemented on GPUs in high-performance signal processing applications have shown that GPUs can obtain 20x performance improvement and more over other processors.