In today’s high-performance computing technological landscape, there is a stark contrast between the compute capabilities of enterprise hardware in datacenters and low-performing embedded systems in edge and transportable environments. The autonomous trucking industry in particular has seen a growing need for higher performance compute, storage, and networking solutions in its rugged edge environments. While size, weight, and power (SWaP) optimized embedded systems are the long-term objective of the industry, current autonomous trucking development platforms require access to high levels of compute to avoid any bottlenecks imposed upon their critical software developments. When looking to solve the developmental compute need of the autonomous truck industry through enterprise hardware – there are some important factors to consider.
Autonomous mobility has become increasingly important for many industries and we have only just started to see the tip of the iceberg. OEMs and system integrators have observed an increasing demand for automated heavy-duty vehicles such as buses, roboshuttles as well as trucks and are now facing an obligation to deliver.
With the availability of PCIe Gen 5 switches from Broadcom, One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS) is ready to enter the market by supporting multiple IO endpoints like GPUs, NVMe storage devices, and networking cards at the Edge and Data Centers. With the advent of these switches, OSS Engineering designs products that meet the needs of demanding software applications - like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other high-performance computing. OSS has already engineered numerous multi-slot PCIe Gen 5 backplanes that enable dense configurations of IO inside and outside the server. In general, PCIe 5.0 technology allows for more system topologies than ever before. Additionally, the feature-rich PCIe 5.0 switch designs help meet the needs of high-speed communications within a server, within a rack, and disaggregated solutions that use the PCIe bus.
In this video, Jaan Mannik does a tour of the OSS booth at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Expo 2022 in San Jose, CA. Jaan discusses the products showcased by OSS at ADAS and how they provide high-performance computing solutions for Edge AI in Autonomous Vehicles. OSS AI Transportable products provide autonomous vehicle optimized solutions for GPU acceleration, FPGA data ingest, and NVMe storage.
As the forefront of the development of artificial intelligence and a key application within One Stop Systems’ “AI Transportable” industry, autonomous vehicles present an opportunity for innovation in designing ruggedized servers and high-capacity storage products. While none of the vehicles on the road today are truly self-driving, progress is being steadily made towards systems that can successfully predict and navigate everyday traffic. Autonomous cars and trucks being currently deployed are capable of driving with limited operator input, it is predicted that fully autonomous vehicles will be widely available by the end of the decade. One Stop Systems has had the unique opportunity to support this progression by developing products catered to the extensive storage needs of the autonomous vehicles industry.
Out-of-Band (OOB) system management is a staple of the modern datacenter. The tools used by administrators have matured over the last 20 years to provide a variety of mission critical features for managing, monitoring, configuring, and updating computer systems independent of the host system’s resources. Intel led the way in the early days by defining a set of interface specifications for basic system management in 1998 called the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). Over the next 20 years, 200+ computer vendors joined support for the IPMI specifications. While IPMI has served us well over the years, it is showing its age with a myriad of security concerns and use of legacy standards that make managing modern hybrid infrastructures difficult and complicated.
