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 centres.
Users operate manifold CLOUD services through a single-sign-on secure web UI which facilitates access to clusters.
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!
manifold MULTIVIEWER is a live production multiviewer service using our unique Distributed Multi-viewer (DMV) technology allowing for up to 512 PIPs per head of any source (including UHD) with no more than 1 frame/field delay from input to output. The layouts are easily created in the manifold CLOUD web UI.
The manifold MULTIVIEWER service generates a 3G or UHD mosaic as a 2110-20 stream which is then available as a new source in the cluster.
The manifold UDX 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.