Concurrent's RedHawk Linux and NightStar Tools Now Available on GE Intelligent Platform's GPU

Concurrent, a provider of real-time Linux operating systems, integrated software and computer solutions for mission-critical applications, announced that its RedHawk Linux and NightStar application development tools are now available on the GE Intelligent Platform’s GRA111 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).

The company said the software delivers enhanced performance for the rugged military and aerospace markets served by GE Intelligent Platforms (News - Alert) GPUs. RedHawk Linux and NightStar tools are widely used in the development and deployment of hundreds of time-critical aerospace and defense, automotive, energy and industrial automation applications worldwide.

CUDA-based GPUs have the potential to bring increased performance to these industries. RedHawk Linux includes the latest available NVIDIA (News - Alert) graphics driver and CUDA parallel computing technology, and it has been specially optimized to achieve the best possible real-time performance and maximum determinism. NightStar tools allow the user to graphically view the performance of CUDA applications and tune the behavior of multi-threaded real-time processes to achieve mission goals.

CUDA is NVIDIA’s parallel computing architecture that enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the GPU. With millions of CUDA-enabled GPUs sold to date, software developers, scientists and researchers are finding broad-ranging uses for CUDA, including image and video processing, computational biology and chemistry, fluid dynamics simulation, CT image reconstruction, seismic analysis, ray tracing, and more.

 “Many customers are looking for low latency and determinism in the applications they are developing on platforms like their MAGIC1, which is based on their CUDA-enabled GRA111 GPU, and Concurrent real-time Linux software helps them achieve this,” said Rob McKeel, general manager of military and aerospace embedded computing at GE Intelligent Platforms. “Concurrent RedHawk Linux can be an important asset to organizations looking to take advantage of the many benefits that CUDA-based GPGPU computing can bring in terms of exceptional performance and shortened development times.

Concurrent’s Ken Jackson added that combining the power of Concurrent's RedHawk Real-Time Linux with GE Intelligent Platforms products will bring new levels of performance to mission-critical applications that require multi-core parallel processing, such as radar data and signal analysis. Their cutting-edge technology will provide cost-effective, high-performance, real-time capability to GE Intelligent Platforms' diverse defense program customer base.