Live Performance

FPGA accelerators guarantee performance that meets the requirements of Tier-1 broadcast productions

Efficiency

Power consumption is 10 x lower than equivalent CPU-based systems

Density through COTS FPGA

With 1.6Tbps per RU, manifold CLOUD offers up to 16 x more processing than the competing platforms

manifold CLOUD

manifold CLOUD is a live production software that runs on COTS FPGA programmable acceleration cards (PAC).

At its core, manifold CLOUD is a service-oriented software that utilizes an on-demand configurable pool of shared resources allocated within a private cloud environment.

Hardware resources (PAC) are pooled together in clusters which can be thought of as Virtual Private Clouds or, simply, a broadcast production. 

Typically, a cluster has a fixed purpose for a set period of time, such as the “6 ‘o’clock news" or the “Sunday football game.”

Multiple clusters can be operated simultaneously, each with different services utilizing a shared hardware resource pool from one or more data centers.

Users operate manifold CLOUD services through a single-sign-on secure web UI which facilitates access to clusters.

Live

Performance

All manifold CLOUD services are performed with guaranteed sub-frame latency just as live event operators are used to.

Service Focus

Simple configuration. Focus on the what not the how. Easily save productions as code

90%

Power savings

COTS FPGA accelerators use 90% less power than comparable CPU based servers.

If you're serious about green gas emissions you can't find a more efficient solution!

Automatic

Provisioning
manifold CLOUD services scale linearly, in direct relation to the total aggregated connected network capacity. Just create your services and they are automatically placed on available compute in your cluster.

1.6 Tbps

per rack-unit

Utilizing the latest generation COTS FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards offers up to 1.6Tbps of processing per RU. That's enough to process up to 1024 HD signals!

And because it's networked if you need more just add another server!

Unlimited

senders/receivers

manifold CLOUD is built upon the time multiplexing of services using FPGA High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).

In difference to all other broadcast products on the market manifold CLOUD does not have a fixed amount of senders and receivers.

The only limitation is the amount of bandwidth allocated to the system!

Density

Current generation COTS FPGA PACs offer 8 x higher density than comparable CPU-based platforms with up to 1.6Tbps of usable processing per RU.

Resiliency

manifold CLOUD is inherently self healing and will automatically recover from processing failure.
manifold CLOUD

SERVICES

manifold MULTIVEWER

Live production multiviewer service using our unique Distributed Multi-viewer (DMV) technology allowing for up to 256 PIPs per head from any source with no more than 1 frame/field delay from input to output.

This service also generates high quality (uncompressed) sub-resolution proxies of any input source which are streamed back to the cluster as ST2110/RFC4175 encapsulated video.

manifold UDX

This service takes a ST2110-20 video source and performs video format conversion between HD(720p/1080i), Full HD(3G) and UHD(12G) with high quality deinterlacing.

The output is a ST2110-20 video of the selected format which becomes available as a new source in the cluster.

manifold COLOR CORRECTION & CONVERSION

This service takes a ST2110-20 video source and performs RGB/YUV color correction and/or colorspace conversion SDR (BT609/709) to/from HDR (BT2020/2100) using tetrahedral interpolation with user loadable 3D LUTs.

The output is a ST2110-20 video which becomes available as a new source in the cluster.

manifold AUDIO

This service takes any number of ST2110-30 audio sources and creates a new ST2110-30 audio stream of configurable size (from 1-80 mono channels) which can consist of any of the mono channels from any of the sources in any order (shuffling).

This service can additionally perform sample-rate-conversion, delay, DolbyE alignment and level gain.

Live PERFORMANCE
Cloud INTELLIGENCE

A manifold CLOUD cluster has two main components - sources and services. Sources are audio, video, and metadata flows in either IP or SDI and are allocated to a cluster via NMOS or API.

manifold CLOUD services are live production functionality such as compression, multi-viewing, routing, audio and video mixing, color correction and color space conversion, etc. For example, a service could be a multiviewer output head, an up/down/cross converter instance, or a JPEG-XS encoder. A cluster contains all the services required for a particular production.

The capacity and performance of a manifold CLOUD system takes full advantage of the fast development cycles of COTS FPGA chip and server manufacturers while at the same time lowering the capex investment required.

manifold CLOUD scales with the total aggregated bandwidth of all the accelerators in a cluster.

Services are generic in that they run on any supported hardware regardless of manufacturer and are automatically instantiated on assigned PAC by manifold CLOUD.

manifold CLOUD is inherently resilient and will reroute services as required upon failure.

supported fPGa programmable accelerator cards

our technology partners

manifold CLOUD supports COTS FPGA Programmable Accelerator Cards from several vendors already, with more to be announced.

As of the current generation, these accelerators provide up to 400Gbps of processing per card. With 4 cards per server this allows for up to 1.6 Tbps of media processing per RU.

Utilizing these accelerators manifold CLOUD can for example process up to 512 x 3G multiviewer sources and 256 x 3G heads in one RU, and it continues to scale linearly as more compute is added!

prodesign FALCON 1SM21 Acceleration Card

The FALCON acceleration card offers Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA technology with high throughput HBM2 memory integration. The board is based on PCIe Gen3x16 and off ers four 100GE QSFP-DD front ports supporting 8x 100Gbit/s or 4x 200Gbit/s

Thomas-Krenn/prodesign FALCON-NEST

Thomas-Krenn.AG is a leading European manufacturer of customized server systems and our partner for integrated server and FPGA solutions.

BittWare 520N-MX
Designed for compute acceleration, the 520N-MX is a PCIe board featuring Intel’s Stratix 10 MX2100 FPGA with integrated HBM2 memory. The size and speed of HBM2 (16GB at up to 512GB/s) enables acceleration of memory-bound applications. The board’s 100G QSFP28s are ideal for clustering, and OCuLink connectors allow expansion.
BittWare - TeraBox servers

BittWare’s TeraBox™ range of certified server platforms feature the latest FPGA accelerators enabling customers to develop and deploy quicker with reduced risk and cost.

arkona AT300
Powered with Intel S10MX FPGAs and with dual non-blocking 100GE interfaces,the AT300 is arkona's latest generation Programmable Acceleration Card
arkona - at300
With 1, 2 and 3RU frame sizes available as well as low-noise options, the AT300 also supports legacy SDI connectors with 16in/16out per accelerator

More Information

Learn more about manifold CLOUD - The broadcast industry's first true live production cloud solution!

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