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06 Product News: Matrox Supersight Set your sights on high-performance computing It’s big . It’s powerful . It can process billions of pixels per second . There’s a new high-performance computing (HPC) platform on the horizon . We’re so excited about it, we unveiled this new blue box at Vision 2008 in Stuttgart before its official release . 2009 promises to be the year of the Matrox Supersight, and Imaging Insight had a chat with Product Manager Dwayne Crawford about it . Imaging Insight: What exactly is the Matrox Supersight? Dwayne Crawford: Matrox Supersight is a high-performance computing platform for OEMs . We like to think of it as the big brother to the 4Sight family that we have been shipping for over 10 years now . What’s different about the Matrox Supersight is that it combines CPU, GPU and FPGA technologies into one or many computing clusters . II: So it’s an industrial computer . How does it differ from a highperformance PC? DC: The Matrox Supersight creates massive parallelism, enables large pipelines and removes I/O bottlenecks with PCIe x16 (Gen 2) interconnects between the processing nodes . By mapping the interconnects through an advanced PCIe switched fabric, nodes can be grouped into compute clusters that seamlessly share data without burdening other nodes within the system . The Matrox Supersight offers unprecedented processing performance in part because it’s so configurable . As CPU, GPU and FPGA technologies evolve, how the application is balanced between them will change . With the Matrox Supersight and MIL the developer can easily “re-cluster” the compute elements to ensure the application is optimally balanced between these technologies . II: What were the reasons for the Matrox Supersight’s development? DC: We constantly see high-performance imaging applications that are subject to hardware limitations . I/O limitations such as bottlenecks within blade servers and external cable connects between 1U pizza boxes pose a major challenge to creating effective parallelism . Furthermore, in order to support acceleration hardware such as FPGAs Matrox Supersight IMAGING INSIGHT Vol. 10 No. 1 and GPUs, physical slots with sufficient bandwidth, power and cooling are required – and they are not always available in blade and pizza box environments . It’s possible to accelerate image processing to its maximum with the judicious application of multiple GPUs, CPUs and FPGAs all working together . The Supersight hosts all these devices yet circumvents the I/O, space, power and cooling limitations of current processing platforms . II: What are the other benefits of the Supersight? DC: Consumer PCs are built and sold for the short term, typically around 12 to 14 months . OEMs make significant investments in development and need products that are available for the long term . Matrox provides 5 to 7 years of availability for its products; we help OEMs get the maximum return on their investment and avoid costly and constant re-validation of new platforms . Furthermore, companies in the medical and pharmaceutical industries face strict governmental regulation to ensure public safety . Unforeseen changes can freeze production, and in a worst case scenario, even result in product recalls . Because change is unavoidable, all Matrox Imaging hardware products, not just the Matrox Supersight, benefit from our managed life cycle programs . We can manage products for long-term fit, form and function . We can also offer the option of strict revision control that includes prior change notification, risk analysis and acceptance sign-off . II: Will the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) support the Supersight platform? DC: Absolutely . Naturally our hardware and software are optimized for each other – that’s another benefit . OEMs who work with a single supplier spend far more time adding value to their product – they focus on developing their application without the struggles of software and hardware compatibility issues . Matrox validates both hardware and software changes to prevent unexpected incompatibility in the field .
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