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News Release from: Force Computers | Subject: CPCI-786
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2002
Dual low-voltage processors keep cPCI
CPU cool
Force Computers has a new dual-processor CompactPCI board-level embedded computing platform, the CPCI-786, based on dual low-voltage Intel Pentium III processors.
Force Computers has a new dual-processor CompactPCI board-level embedded computing platform, the CPCI-786, based on dual low-voltage Intel Pentium III processors With such high-performance processors, the CPCI-786 serves as a multiprocessing "engine" that enables easy implementation of streaming media, web hosting, network caching, data storage and other Internet edge applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a PICMG 2.16-compliant system-slot board platform, the CPCI-786 server blade offers energy-efficient and high-performance processing capability resulting in cooler operation and more "MIPS per square cm" than standard server-farm rack-mounts, when populating a Force Centellis CO 21000-12U or Centellis CO 25000-9U system.
The CPCI-786 offers an ideal CompactPCI Packet-Switching Backplane (cPSB) solution for next-generation switch-fabric architecture applications.
It has already been submitted to Hewlett-Packard Company's Blade Server Alliance programme for testing and possible qualification - the first dual-processor board to be accepted.
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In early February 2002, Force qualified its single Pentium III processor server blade, the CPCI-736, in HP's blade server chassis, and Force plans to support the programme with a number of innovative server blades and system platforms including NEBS Level 3 tested solutions.
By providing dual low-voltage Intel Pentium III processors from Intel's embedded road-map on the industry-standard CompactPCI form-factor, the CPCI-786 server blade provides a continuous upgrade path for existing Pentium processor-based products, decreases time-to-market, saves development costs and offers product longevity support.
With PICMG 2.1 compliance, the CPCI-786 enables hot swapping of blades without requiring powering down of system operations.
In addition, the PICMG 2.16 cPSB-compatible CPCI-786 has up to 4GBytes interleave-interfaced SDRAM for maximum memory bandwidth.
Other features include: an onboard 30Gbyte IDE hard disk drive; IPMI system management support (PICMG 2.9); and a PMC slot (64bit/66MHz PCI capable) for high-bandwidth I/O (such as Fibre Channel or Gigabit Ethernet).
"Through the Applied Computing Platform Provider program, Intel works closely with leading solution providers, such as Force", said Joe Jensen, general manager, Embedded Intel Architecture Division.
"This will allow Force to offer customers cutting-edge board-level computing platforms featuring the dual Low-Voltage Intel Pentium III processor-based CPCI-786".
CPCI-786 server blades will be available through Force's Early Access Unit (EAU) programme in April 2002 with volume shipments scheduled for June 2002.
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