Extensible AI platform for autonomous processes

Nuvo-8111 is a new­ly devel­oped series of cost-effec­tive com­put­ing plat­forms that are uncom­pro­mis­ing­ly geared towards AI use. Now avail­able through Ger­man dis­trib­u­tor Acceed in sev­er­al equip­ment com­bi­na­tions, the indus­tri­al box com­put­er impress­es with its three expan­sion slots and sup­port for a high-end graph­ics card from Nvidia, for exam­ple the RTX 3060/3060 Ti. With GPU per­for­mance of up to 20 TFLOPS (bench­marked with FP32), per­for­mance and effi­cien­cy can be notice­ably increased in fac­to­ry automa­tion, image recog­ni­tion and opti­cal in-line pro­duc­tion inspec­tion, pick-and-place robot con­trol, and new GPU-accel­er­at­ed appli­ca­tions in general.

The GPU (Graph­ics Pro­cess­ing Unit), unlike the gen­er­al CPU, is a proces­sor spe­cial­ized and opti­mized for com­put­ing graph­ics. The many small­er proces­sor cores of the GPU, which are designed for more spe­cial­ized tasks, show their strength in inter­ac­tion when data pro­cess­ing process­es can be divid­ed among many cores. With the CUDA pro­gram­ming inter­face devel­oped by Nvidia for high­ly par­al­leliz­able pro­gram sequences, sig­nif­i­cant per­for­mance increas­es can be achieved when processed by the GPU. At the same time, the CPU is relieved and is avail­able for oth­er tasks. Indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions ben­e­fit in the area of intel­li­gent image analy­sis, for exam­ple for robot con­trol, the coor­di­na­tion of vehi­cles and trans­port sys­tems, but also in process analy­sis and com­plex simulations.

Depend­ing on the equip­ment vari­ant, the new Nuvo-8111 AI com­put­ing plat­form oper­ates with the 9th or 8th gen­er­a­tion Intel proces­sor with H310 chipset. It fea­tures a x16 Gen3 PCIe slot to accom­mo­date a GPU card, as well as an addi­tion­al x4 PCIe and a PCI slot for indus­tri­al I/O cards such as DIO, AIO, com­mu­ni­ca­tions or motion con­trol cards. Inputs and out­puts are installed direct­ly on the front pan­el, includ­ing two GbE inter­faces, four ports of USB 3.1 Gen1 and five COM ports. This keeps access con­ve­nient for instal­la­tion and flex­i­ble cus­tomiza­tion dur­ing oper­a­tion, even when installed in a con­trol cab­i­net or rack. Stor­age options include two slots for 2.5‑inch SATA hard dri­ves (SSD or HDD) and an mSA­TA sock­et to accom­mo­date an mSA­TA SSD.