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By Gary Stiehr, January 14, 2009 9:51 pm

LightHaus Logic has available some video analytics appliances aimed at analyzing store security camera video to help assess customer behavior in stores.  The appliances are mutli-processor nodes that can process five to twenty video streams.  Adding more appliances into a cluster can increase capacity.  The end result is supposed to be “to condense hundreds or thousands of hours of video into actionable intelligence.”  The HPCwire article has more information.

Two other recent posts talked about using HPC for other types of video processing:

• Petaflop GPU-based Supercomputer Delivers HD Video to Phones
• CultureVis: HPC in the Humanities

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By Gary Stiehr,

Here’s another interesting new market for HPC: HD content delivery.

AMD plans on creating a computing system (their “Fusion Render Cloud”) based off of more that 1,000 GPUs along with some Phenom II CPUs.  The GPUs alone (ATI Radeon 4870) will provide over one petaflop.  This will be used to render HD video and stream it to devices with limited battery and/or processing capabilities, such as some smart phones and ultra-thin notebooks.

The article doesn’t go into great detail on the architecture of this system though (e.g., is it 1,000 nodes each with a Radeon and a Phenom?).  Also, the term “cloud” is mentioned so perhaps this will be sold as a cloud service to content providers?