The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) has announced the launch of JPEG XS plugins and microservices for data processing and exchange with NVIDIA Holoscan for Media Architecture.
The collaboration enables direct data transfer from network interface cards (NICs) to graphics cards and Fraunhofer IIS JPEG XS software development kits (SDKs), said the company. Combining Fraunhofer IIS´ JPEG XS SDKs with NVIDIA Holoscan for Media Architecture allows users to realise solutions for both cloud-based and on-premises systems.
The SDKs provide an interface and API that fit directly into the Holoscan platform, allowing users to implement a cloud-based cluster system, ST2110-22 with JPEG XS processing or an embedded solution using the NVIDIA Jetson platform. Fraunhofer offers JPEG XS SDKs for a range of platforms, including x86, Arm and NVIDIA processors, with the inclusion of its new JPEG XS plugins helping to expand the NVIDIA platform.
Holoscan for Media provides a platform for software defined broadcasting by combining high-performance NICs with graphic cards and application-supporting SDKs. Together with the NVIDIA Rivermax SDK and CUDA toolkits, IP-based solutions including SMPTE ST 2110, AMWA NMOS, RIST and SRT can be built. While Holoscan for Media originally addressed both uncompressed and low-bit-rate streaming workflows, the integration of Fraunhofer´s JPEG XS SDKs provides a way to deliver an IP-based low-latency mezzanine video compression transport, said the company.
Nir Nitzani, senior director of networking media and entertainment product marketing management at NVIDIA, said: “NVIDIA GPUDirect and Direct Packet Placing allow a direct data transfer from the NIC to the GPU. This is where the Fraunhofer JPEG XS plugin comes in, unpacking and decoding the JPEG XS RTP stream to eliminate time consuming processing by the CPU and bottlenecks in workflows and data pipelines.”
