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RUSH: A Rad-Hard Unified Scalable Heterogeneous Processing Architecture

Award Information

Agency:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
 Program Year/Program:
2011 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
104957 		Solicitation Year:
2010 		Solicitation Topic Code:
S3.01 		Solicitation Number:
Small Business Information
MaXentric Technologies LLC
2071 Lemoine Avenue Suite 302 Fort Lee, NJ -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2011
Title: RUSH: A Rad-Hard Unified Scalable Heterogeneous Processing Architecture
Agency: NASA
Contract: NNX11CF46P
Award Amount: $99,992.00
 

Abstract:

Space presents a challenging environment for computing. Extendeddevelopment times and radiation tolerance requirements leave hardwareperformance a decade or more behind the terrestrial state-of-the-artat the time of deployment. Additionally, once deployed, hardwarechanges are impractical, encouraging a trend towards increasedsoftware programmability. However, topside pressure from applicationadvancements are forcing space-based platforms to improve throughputand latency while reducing power consumption. A popular approach toaddressing the tension between these requirements is the heterogeneousprocessing architecture. By providing multiple hardware tools thatoptimally support a subset of the anticipated workload, aheterogeneous architecture can offer a diverse processing toolset tothe application developer. However, programming these systems isextremely challenging because of variations in toolsets and datasharing interfaces. As a result, data sharing and dynamic workloadscheduling across heterogeneous architectures is often suboptimal andhindered by poor scalability. Maxentric proposes to solve this problemwith RUSH, a heterogeneous processing architecture with a unifiedprogramming model for rapid development. RUSH employs a rad-hardmulticore processor as a host and an FPGA as an accelerator chip. TheRUSH software layer unifies these architectures through an innovativeprogramming model described in the proposal.

Principal Investigator:

Brandon Beresini
Principal Investigator
8586056337
beresini@gmail.com

Business Contact:

Houman Ghajari
Business Official
8582728800
houman@maxentric.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

MaXentric Technologies
2071 Lemoine Avenue, Suite 302 Fort Lee, NJ 07024-9212

EIN/Tax ID: 223832509
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No