March 19, 2025 – WOLF Advanced Technology, a pioneer in rugged embedded computing systems, today unveiled four NVIDIA® Blackwell-based VPX modules designed for mission-critical edge AI applications. Leveraging NVIDIA® Blackwell GPUs, these 3U and 6U VPX modules deliver unprecedented AI inference capabilities while operating in harsh environments. Purpose-built for bleeding edge use cases and extreme environmental resilience, these products merge Blackwell’s architectural advancements with WOLF’s signature modularity and rapid MCOTS customization.
Product Details
The WOLF-1636 (VPX3U-BW5000E-VO-HPC) redefines rugged AI processing with NVIDIA’s Blackwell RTX 5000 embedded GPU, featuring 10,496 CUDA cores and 320 fifth-generation Tensor Cores. Its 24GB GDDR7 ECC memory achieves up to 896GB/s bandwidth—55% faster than prior generations, enabling larger data sets to reach the GPU for real-time processing. SOSA-aligned (14.6.11/13) and backward-compatible with SOSA aligned Ada/Ampere systems, this 3U module can handle the large data set processing required by the most demanding applications.
For network-dense deployments, the WOLF-163S (VPX3U-BW5000E-SWITCH) consolidates Blackwell AI/HPC processing with two switches, a 200GbE network switch with eight 25GbE ports, and a PCIe Gen5 switch, consolidating what would normally require two slots into one slot-saving module. By unifying CUDA core flexibility and fifth-Gen Tensor core AI processing with GDDR7’s bandwidth, it provides a significant increase over Ada-generation performance for SWaP-constrained AI inference and is a huge performance increase over the legacy WOLF-134S product.
Systems that rely on network connectivity gain an edge with the WOLF-163L (VPX3U-BW5000E-CX7), pairing Blackwell’s compute performance with NVIDIA® ConnectX-7’s 100GbE RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and hardware-accelerated encryption. This solution maintains pin compatibility with previous generation WOLF-153L/144L deployments.
Available in the 6U form factor, the WOLF-2638 (VPX6U-BW5000E-VO) unleashes dual Blackwell GPUs, combining 48GB GDDR7, 20,992 CUDA cores, 640 fifth-generation Tensor Cores, and a configurable PCIe Gen5 switch. Engineered for bleeding edge systems, the WOLF-2638 can be cooled via conduction cooling, air cooling, or liquid flow-through cooling to permit the highest possible performance.
Availability
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About Wolf Advanced Technology
WOLF Advanced Technology designs and manufactures rugged high-performance computing, AI, and video I/O boards, modules, and systems. Solutions are designed to operate in harsh aerospace and defense environments without sacrificing any of the high-speed processing available from advanced NVIDIA® GPUs and APUs, and Xilinx FPGAs. Products range from extremely low-power modules to industry-leading high-performance data analysis, processing, and AI modules that meet embedded systems SWaP requirements. Product architectures include standards-based VPX, XMC, and MXM modules as well as full custom designs.