[Avionics Magazine 11-21-2016] Curtiss Wright has introduced a new Ultra-Small Form Factor (USFF) mission computer, the Parvus DuraCor 312. The unit’s teraflop performance delivers the highest Floating Point Operations Per Second (FLOPS) per watt available in a rugged, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), highly scalable system architecture, according to Curtiss Wright.
Photo: DuraCor 312. Photo: Curtiss Wright.
The new USFF is designed to give system designers the ability to rapidly deploy supercomputer-class processing in a high-TRL subsystem that eliminates design risk and NRE costs.
DuraCOR 312 combines the TX1’s quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 (ARMv8) processor and 256 Maxwell/CUDA-core Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) with a comprehensive set of base Input/Output (I/O), including Ethernet, serial, USB, DIO and video ports, as well as multiple I/O and storage expansion options that support additional vetronics/avionics interfaces.