HPEC Software Platform
Curtiss-Wright's HPEC Center of Excellence provides systems integration and dataflow modeling and prototyping services. The Continuum HPEC Software platform provides seamless software functionality to Curtiss-Wright HPEC-COE certified boards, using OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED™). OFED is an open source software middleware that abstracts fabrics and operating systems from middleware, operating system command calls, and customer applications. OFED is an open standard body created by the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA), with many contributors across the industry. OFED supports multiple fabrics such as InfiniBand™ and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (iWARP), and supports multiple operating systems including Linux®, OpenSolaris™ and Windows®.
Current HPEC-COE certified products include:
- CHAMP-FX3 Virtex-6 FPGA board
- CHAMP-AV8 dual 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 multi-processor
- VPX6-1956 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 single board computer
- VPX6-6902 RapidIO and Ethernet switch
- VPX6-490 GPGPU module
Specifications
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Continuum HPEC Software Platform Features
- Processor abstraction (Intel®, Power Architecture™, FPGA and GPGPU)
- DMA control and fabric handshake
- Zero-Copy data transfers
- Middleware/user layer abstraction (OpenMPI and other OS function calls)
- Supports DMA controlled diagnostics utilities and tools
- Low latency high speed (up to 20Gbits/s) application to application data transfers
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OFED Features
- Operating system abstraction (Linux®, Windows®, OpenSolaris™)
- Fabric abstraction (InfiniBand™, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and Serial RapidIO®)
- Middleware abstraction (OpenMPI, OpenSM, and Intel MPI)
- Processor abstraction (Intel®, Power Architecture™, FPGA and GPGPU)
- DMA control and fabric handshake
- Zero-Copy data transfers
- Supports DMA controlled diagnostics utilities and tools
- Low latency high speed (up to 20Gbits/s) application to application data transfers


