REPUTE:An On-board Algorithm Implementation on an Embedded GPU: A Space Case Study
Iván Rodriguez1,2, Leonidas Kosmidis1,2, Olivier Notebaert3, Francisco J. Cazorla2 and David Steenari4
1Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
3Airbus Defence and Space, Toulouse, France
4European Space Agency, The Netherlands
ABSTRACT
On-board processing requirements of future space missions are constantly increasing, calling for new hardware than the traditional ones used in space. Embedded GPUs are an attractive candidate offering both high performance capabilities and low power consumption, but there are no complex industrial case studies from the space domain demonstrating these advantages. In this paper we present the GPU parallelisation of an on-board algorithm, as well as its performance on a promising embedded GPU COTS platform targeting critical systems.
Keywords: Embedded GPUs, Aerospace, Case Study.
