New Standard in Signal and Image Processing to Meet Defense Demands. WorldScape to present workshop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MARLTON, NJ (September 15, 2003) – WorldScape Defense Company, LLC will co-present a workshop at the seventh annual High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC 2003) conference to be held on September 22-25, 2003 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory. The theme of this year’s conference is Heterogeneous and Distributed Real-Time Computing for DoD Applications.
The workshop entitled "An Ultra-High Performance Architecture for Embedded Defense Signal and Image Processing Applications" will take place on September 24th. The presentation, which covers underlying technology and architectures with application benchmarks provided by WorldScape, is the result of strong collaboration between WorldScape, Lockheed Martin, and ClearSpeed Ltd.
"This is a prestigious forum for WorldScape to showcase the value of our core skills in achieving unsurpassed performance on array processing architectures. The presentation will raise industry awareness to the significant throughput, size, and performance per watt advantages inherent in the WorldScape products currently under development for the defense and commercial markets," said Peter Rogina, President of WorldScape Incorporated and co-presenter at the conference. "The WorldScape products can be scaled to thousands of processors and are supported by a flexible development environment including a C-based programming language and assembly language support. A cycle accurate simulator, optional floating-point hardware per processing element, and soon to be released pilot silicon round out the story. These factors are all very important to the embedded processing community."
Currently WorldScape Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WorldScape, Inc., is working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to validate the use of this technology for, among other things, embedded radar processing on small airborne platforms. "The technology, due to its sheer throughput, low power dissipation, and size makes it a leading candidate for small portable platforms as well as for larger signal and image processing systems," said Dr. Stewart Reddaway, WorldScape’s Chief Scientist. "The performance validation by Lockheed Martin adds further credibility to the technology performance and applicability to defense applications."
The ability to significantly increase processing throughput while lowering overall size and power requirements for embedded signal and image processing platforms is critical to a number of Navy and Department of Defense initiatives such as real-time sensor processing, compression/de-compression, encryption/decryption, missile defense systems, future UAV systems, facial recognition and numerous homeland security applications. The substantial throughput, size, and power advantages for embedded applications has recently resulted in a second phase contract award for WorldScape Defense to accelerate the implementation of the technology.
The HPEC Workshop will give U.S. government-funded researchers from academia, industry, and government an opportunity to discuss techniques, approaches, and ongoing developments with relevance to real-time embedded military signal processors.
BACKGROUND
WorldScape Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, WorldScape Defense Company, LLC are developing and deploying high-performance applications and hardware including real world based immersive imaging solutions. The company is also developing a suite of commercially available products and services based on the underlying massively parallel technology. WorldScape Defense is located in Marlton, New Jersey. For more information on WorldScape visit www.wscapeinc.com or www.wsdefense.com.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin employs about 125,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2001 sales of $24 billion.
ClearSpeed is a leading provider of high-performance parallel processing semiconductor technology to the computing and communications industries. The company has corporate offices in the U.K. and the U.S. More information can be found on the company's web site at www.clearspeed.com.
MARLTON, NJ (September 15, 2003) – WorldScape Defense Company, LLC will co-present a workshop at the seventh annual High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC 2003) conference to be held on September 22-25, 2003 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory. The theme of this year’s conference is Heterogeneous and Distributed Real-Time Computing for DoD Applications.
The workshop entitled "An Ultra-High Performance Architecture for Embedded Defense Signal and Image Processing Applications" will take place on September 24th. The presentation, which covers underlying technology and architectures with application benchmarks provided by WorldScape, is the result of strong collaboration between WorldScape, Lockheed Martin, and ClearSpeed Ltd.
"This is a prestigious forum for WorldScape to showcase the value of our core skills in achieving unsurpassed performance on array processing architectures. The presentation will raise industry awareness to the significant throughput, size, and performance per watt advantages inherent in the WorldScape products currently under development for the defense and commercial markets," said Peter Rogina, President of WorldScape Incorporated and co-presenter at the conference. "The WorldScape products can be scaled to thousands of processors and are supported by a flexible development environment including a C-based programming language and assembly language support. A cycle accurate simulator, optional floating-point hardware per processing element, and soon to be released pilot silicon round out the story. These factors are all very important to the embedded processing community."
Currently WorldScape Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WorldScape, Inc., is working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to validate the use of this technology for, among other things, embedded radar processing on small airborne platforms. "The technology, due to its sheer throughput, low power dissipation, and size makes it a leading candidate for small portable platforms as well as for larger signal and image processing systems," said Dr. Stewart Reddaway, WorldScape’s Chief Scientist. "The performance validation by Lockheed Martin adds further credibility to the technology performance and applicability to defense applications."
The ability to significantly increase processing throughput while lowering overall size and power requirements for embedded signal and image processing platforms is critical to a number of Navy and Department of Defense initiatives such as real-time sensor processing, compression/de-compression, encryption/decryption, missile defense systems, future UAV systems, facial recognition and numerous homeland security applications. The substantial throughput, size, and power advantages for embedded applications has recently resulted in a second phase contract award for WorldScape Defense to accelerate the implementation of the technology.
The HPEC Workshop will give U.S. government-funded researchers from academia, industry, and government an opportunity to discuss techniques, approaches, and ongoing developments with relevance to real-time embedded military signal processors.
BACKGROUND
WorldScape Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, WorldScape Defense Company, LLC are developing and deploying high-performance applications and hardware including real world based immersive imaging solutions. The company is also developing a suite of commercially available products and services based on the underlying massively parallel technology. WorldScape Defense is located in Marlton, New Jersey. For more information on WorldScape visit www.wscapeinc.com or www.wsdefense.com.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin employs about 125,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2001 sales of $24 billion.
ClearSpeed is a leading provider of high-performance parallel processing semiconductor technology to the computing and communications industries. The company has corporate offices in the U.K. and the U.S. More information can be found on the company's web site at www.clearspeed.com.
