IDT, NVIDIA and Orange Silicon Valley Drive Supercomputing to Edge of Wireless Network for Real-Time Analysis and Services
February 25 2015 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
New Platform’s Mobile GPU Clustering Enables
Big Data Analytics at Local Base Stations for More Timely and
Pertinent Results
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) (NASDAQ:IDTI)
announced today that it has developed with NVIDIA® and Orange
Silicon Valley a supercomputing platform that can analyze 4G to 5G
base station bandwidth data in real time, enabling network
operators to monetize the voluminous data flowing through their
communications systems. By connecting clusters of low-power NVIDIA
Tegra® K1 mobile processors with IDT’s RapidIO interconnect and
timing technology, the platform can deliver real-time data that
network operators can use to provide consumers a more responsive
and interactive experience.
Designed for high-performance computing, IoT appliances and
wireless access networks handling 4G and higher traffic, the
platform features cutting-edge deep learning and pattern
recognition computing capabilities. By installing the hardware at
multiple, geographically dispersed base stations along the edge of
the network, the Big Data problem is solved by distributing the
computing capacity and delivering lightning-quick analysis of
locally generated data, such as social media content.
"For example, if you tweet that you’ve just seen a movie and are
headed out to dinner, some nearby dining options could pop up on
your screen," said Sailesh Chittipeddi, IDT’s vice president of
Global Operations and chief technology officer. "Or the technology
can be used for mass transit; if you’re standing at a bus stop, you
can check your phone for the precise location of your bus. The
possibilities are virtually endless."
Chittipeddi refers to the platform as "supercomputing at the
edge" because the technology is deployed and analysis conducted at
local base stations—at the edge of the wireless network—rather than
in a central location, removing the bottleneck between the base
station and the core of the network. "The solution was developed
with an architecture designed to handle the emerging market for
geographically distributed analytics, deep learning and pattern
recognition in real time," he said.
"By taking mobile low-power GPU technology and connecting it
with 100 ns latency RapidIO interconnect, this modular cluster can
be deployed to distribute high-performance compute functionality to
the edge of the wireless network, where it is most geographically
sensitive," said Jag Bolaria of the Linley Group. "The innovation
paves the path for co-locating real-time deployable analytics in
the approximately 2 million base stations deployed annually in
wireless networks."
The Supercomputing at the Edge platform uses IDT’s 20 Gbps
interconnect technology to connect a low-latency cluster of NVIDIA
Tegra K1 mobile processors. It’s suitable for micro base station
deployment along with larger computing clusters in the C-RAN, a new
cellular network architecture. Each computing card is based on
connecting up to 4 GPU units per processing card connected with
RapidIO low-latency NIC and switching products on board.
The platform, which can support up to 12 teraflops per IU
RapidIO server blade, is based on servers from Prodrive
Technologies (www.prodrive-technologies.com) and computing cards
from Concurrent Technologies PLC (www.gocct.com). Each computing
card contains four NVIDIA mobile processors. The processors deliver
192 fully programmable CUDA cores for advanced graphics and compute
performance. Each card in the system matches computing cores with
20 Gbps interconnect to each GPU, with over 140 Gbps of built-in
switching at each node with IDT’s best-in-class timing
solutions.
IDT will present the Supercomputing at the Edge platform at the
Linley Data Center Conference Feb. 25-26 in Santa Clara, Calif.,
and Mobile World Congress March 2-5 in Barcelona, Booth 1H10.
About IDT
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level
solutions that optimize its customers' applications. IDT uses its
market leadership in timing, serial switching and interfaces, and
adds analog and system expertise to provide complete
application-optimized, mixed-signal solutions for the
communications, computing and consumer segments. Headquartered
in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales
facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT
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