Milestone Systems collaborated with NVIDIA to provide the next level of hardware acceleration and video processing services in monitoring management. Milestone XProtect will leverage NVIDIA GPUs and the CUDA parallel computing platform and programming model to provide parallel processing capabilities of recording servers, mobile servers and other video processing services.
CUDA enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the GPU. GPU-accelerated computing is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU) together with a computer’s central processing unit (CPU) to accelerate deep learning, analytics, and engineering applications.
The use of hardware acceleration decoding and video motion detection can drastically reduce the number of recording servers needed in large installations, lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an XProtect solution. By eliminating traditional CPU bottlenecks, limitation and upgrades, Milestone can scale servers by adding more NVIDIA GPUs. This extends the life and performance of video surveillance recorders, which lowers customer costs.
The benefits of this technology are also relevant for smaller installations, as smaller scale servers can be used to save space, energy and cost. Hardware acceleration also paves the way for widespread use of 4K cameras and processing-intensive video compressions like H.265. This provides better situational awareness and saves disk space for installations of all sizes.
