Petaflops for 5G MEC (Mobile Edge Cloud / Multi-access Edge Computing)
The introduction of 5G is rapidly introducing new requirements for high performance GPU-enabled technology.
The low-latency (projected as low as 1ms) and high bandwidth (10Gbps with pathway to 100Gbps) available with 5G is making more possible.
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Cross Reality (XR) solutions
This could include Rendering complex graphics or real time lighting and backgrounds remotely during visualisation or game play.
MEC servers will provide local object tracking and local AR content caching to overlay augmented reality content onto objects viewed on a cellular device camera.
Augmented reality applications include an overlay of business names and street names and numbers on video from your phone as you walk down a street.
You could also have augmented reality in museums where information is available in summary and in more detail as you walk past an exhibit.
Many of these are achievable now but the lower latency and higher bandwidth means that this technology can now develop to provide rich video and 3D images integrated into your reality.
Video Analytics
 | MEC server can be used to implement applications such as Intelligent Video Analytics – video steams can be analysed in real time without the need to be transmitted back to a central data centre. This accelerates detection and reduces response times and can be set to trigger events automatically (e.g. abandoned bags, facial recognition of wanted or missing persons etc.) |
Control and Monitoring of industrial machinery
 | Multiple video streams of critical manufacturing hardware, inaccessible pipelines and even raw material stockpiles can be analysed in real time by AI systems based upon GPU-enabled equipment. This information could be combined with massive data continuously collected by a variety of sensors measuring weight, flow, temperature, colour, density acidity and more and fed to the same GPU-enabled AI systems to process these feeds in real time, inform and perhaps implement or order corrective action. Imagine a manufacturing plant where even the smallest variations could be investigated before they became issues and without the necessity for human intervention. | |||
Edge computing power means that hardened GPU-enabled compute systems capable of analysing these video streams and data feeds can be placed on the factory floor. 5G provides the bandwidth for video streams and feeds to be highlighted and switched to a control room located anywhere for human intervention. | ||||
 | Gigabyte has HPC product ready for 5G MEC. Have a look at the latest information on 5G edge computing and the implications for your industry. | |||
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