GPU4S

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

GPU4S (Embedded GPUs for Space) is a research initiative funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) evaluating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded graphics processing units for space payload processing and autonomous navigation.

🎯 Objectives & Scope

Space applications increasingly require high-throughput parallel computing for satellite image processing, SAR, and autonomous navigation. GPU4S investigated the feasibility and reliability of deploying embedded GPUs in harsh radiation space environments.

💡 Key Research Innovations

Space GPU Benchmark Suite: Developed a standardized open-source benchmark suite representative of space payload processing workloads.
SafeSoftDR (Software-Based Diverse Redundancy): Created a software-only fault tolerance library providing kernel-level diverse redundancy on GPUs to mitigate soft errors without hardware modification.
COTS Architecture Evaluation: Evaluated low-power embedded GPU architectures (ARM Mali, NVIDIA Jetson, AMD) for radiation tolerance and performance-per-watt.

🏛️ Key Collaborators

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
European Space Agency (ESA)
Airbus Defence and Space

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GPU4S

🎯 Objectives & Scope

💡 Key Research Innovations

🏛️ Key Collaborators