CHELMSFORD, Mass., 25 Oct. 2010. Mercury Computer Systems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., is introducing the rugged OpenVPX Ensemble 60000 HDS6600 quad-core, fabric-enabled Xeon-based embedded server for military applications in radar processing, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR).
The 6U VPX-based embedded computing server module combines the Intel Xeon processor family with the Mercury Protocol Offload Engine Technology (POET)switch fabric interconnect for on-board exploitation, high-end radar, and multi-sensor electro-optics and infrared (EO/IR) sensor-processing.
In addition to eight cores of Xeon processing, the board also has 12 gigabytes of DRAM solid-state memory on board. "We are targeting computationally intensive applications like high-end radar, EO/IR, and persistent surveillance," says Shaun McQuaid, senior product manager at Mercury. We use the expansion plane of the OpenVPX architecture so users could connect to a GPU board for persistent surveillance algorithms." He says on-board memory could double to 24 gigabytes sometime next year.
The module features 110 billion floating point operations per second (GFLOPS) of peak performance; two land grid array (LGA)-packaged processors on a rugged embedded platform; an expansion plane that provides a connection to a graphics processing unit (GPU) board; open standards-based MultiCore Plus Software Development environment support; interoperable software with other Mercury products; and is available in rugged air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions.
For more information contact Mercury Computer Systems online at www.mc.com.
