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News Release from: Thales Computers | Subject: PowerNode5
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 January 2007
VME blade server scales up signal
processing
The PowerNode5 is the first dual 64bit PowerPC970 VME blade server with backplane Serial RapidIO and Serial FPDP connectivity.
Unveiled during the 2007 Bus and Boards event, the PowerNode5 is the first dual 64bit PowerPC970 VME blade server with backplane Serial RapidIO and Serial FPDP connectivity This product is ideally suited for intensive signal and data processing systems such as radar and imaging equipment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The PowerNode5 design includes a powerful, reliable Serial RapidIO switch fabric solution that allows the end-user the ability to interconnect computing nodes together inside a signal processing system.
This Serial RapidIO technology reduces pin counts while providing a full duplex capability as well as a low latency, packet-based interconnect data push.
Thales' Serial RapidIO switch fabric is an original implementation with a distributed Serial RapidIO architecture: each PowerNode5 is equipped with a four-port switch allowing a flexible, full-mesh interconnect of up to four PowerNode5s and scalable up to a 16-PowerNode5 machine.
The resulting aggregate throughput reaches up to 25.6Gbyte/s, ideal for demanding signal processing applications found in radar, sonar and medical imaging applications.
The PowerNode5 features triple x4 Serial RapidIO links available on an enhanced performance P0 connector, compliant with legacy VME64x backplanes.
The PowerNode5 is also available with a twin Serial RapidIO link plus a single Serial FPDP link option.
"With this new upgraded version of the PowerNode5, our customers can easily design scalable signal and data processing computing systems using blades fully interconnected on a legacy VME64x backplane, when formerly the use of high speed mezzanines and front panel wiring were necessary", said Robert Negre, CTO of Thales Computers.
"The early adoption by Thales of the Serial RapidIO and Serial FPDP technologies guarantee the high level of maturity and the short lead time of this new product".
The current version of PowerNode5 blade computing node is currently shipping with an entry-level unit price of US $9670.
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