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News Release from: Kontron UK | Subject: PENTXM2 and PENTXM4 dual and quad-core SBCs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 April 2008
Variable capacity computing saves power
Variable computing capacity allows minimal power consumption while the system operates in surveillance mode, switching to maximum computing capacity in battle mode.
Kontron's PENTXM2 and PENTXM4 6U VME multicore CPU boards with Intel Xeon processors can populate a complete VME rack, with some maintained in stand-by mode and later powered up under application control The standard out-of-band IPMI command infrastructure is used to implement this feature
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Variable computing capacity allows minimal power consumption while the system operates in surveillance mode, switching to maximum computing capacity in battle mode.
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Kontron's implementation provides defence integrators with variable capacity computing in a 6U VME form factor and operates from -40 to +85C.
"The modern battlefield will be populated with UAV and other data gathering equipment deployed autonomously with operational time limited by battery power" according to Norbert Hauser, Vice President Global Marketing at Kontron "In this field, only a few products offer simultaneously intelligent power management and massive parallel computing performance and until now none of them have been VME". Request a free brochure from Kontron UK ...
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