2024.03.19

Major Announcement – dacreo AI ecosystem

Blue Marble Communications Inc (BMC) and BruhnBruhn Innovation AB (BBI) are delighted to unveil a revolutionary advancement in Generative AI capabilities for space assets. This groundbreaking achievement, made possible through a collaboration focused on radiation-hardened compute hardware and advanced AI software frameworks, sets a new standard for space technology and operations.

The BBI dacreo software stack for AMD Ryzen7 4000 and V2000 series of APUs enables advanced AI operations using the onboard GPU for devices such as the Space Edge Processor.

Blue Marble Communications Space Edge Processor
Blue Marble Communication Inc Space Edge Processor in flight configuration (FM). The SEP is in high-volume manufacturing.

The introduction of the BMC Space Edge Processor (SEP), equipped with AMD’s cutting-edge 7 nm V2000 series accelerated processing unit (APU) and Versal Prime FPGA technology, marks a significant milestone. This hardware, when combined with BBI’s innovative AI software orchestration stack dacreo, showcases a pioneering step towards achieving true cloud-native operations and cognitive autonomy in deep space. BBI’s dacreo AI software stack for AMD Ryzen 7 4000 and V2000 series devices is based on a tailored AMD ROCm open-source compute stack, to fully harness onboard GPUs for artificial intelligence applications and enable cloud-native functionalities, including Kubernetes in space.

Live demonstration at Satellite 2024 show in Washington DC

To demonstrate the power of the dacreo software stack in combination with the SEP radiation hardened solution, a number of containerized cutting-edge AI capabilities have been developed and being demonstrated live at the Satellite 2024 show in Washington DC.

Astronaut Co-pilot assistant application demo

BBI dacreo GPT: An interactive astronaut co-pilot powered by an onboard Meta Llama 2 large language model, illustrating the dacreo ecosystem vast AI capabilities on radiation hardened computers offloaded on the GPU. The dacreo GPT is developed and tested at the BBI Space Kubernetes Laboratory.

See through clouds capability – Real-time SAR processing and object detection application demo

AIKO dacreo GPT deepSAR: A real-time Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) stripmap processing and object detection application, highlighting the importance of onboard SAR processing for quick insights in challenging environments. The application is part of the new onboard data processing suite presented by AIKO and has been developed and tested at the BBI Space Kubernetes Laboratory.