This feature provides support for leveraging Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for increasing transcoding capacity of SBC SWe instances, and the ability to instantiate the same on an OpenStack cloud. GPU acceleration significantly increases transcoding capacity of virtual instances, which otherwise would have a limited scale. In many cases GPU-accelerated solution performs better than specialized DSP hardware-based solutions. GPU-based solutions have the following benefits:
- GPUs are ubiquitous, they are being offered as Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) solutions by major hardware and cloud vendors.
- GPU-based solutions help leverage the steep rise in computing power delivered by increased industry investments in GPU technology.
- GPUs have diverse applications. Unlike specialized DSP hardware, GPU devices can be reused for other applications.
- GPUs can be leveraged by cloud-based virtual instances.
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