Breaking News - Networking:
Mercury Announces First Multi-Chassis, Serial RapidIO Systems
Mercury Computer Systems Inc announced the capability to scale both the
ImpactRT 3200 and the PowerStream 7000 multicomputers to multi-chassis
configurations. This new capability uses high-bandwidth Serial RapidIO over
fiber connections to tightly link multiple chassis into a single, cohesive
system, enabling twice the system performance.
Both the ImpactRT 3200 and the PowerStream 7000 use parallel RapidIO inside
the chassis to tie multiple processors together into flexible, scalable
multicomputers to address the increasingly larger computational challenges in
commercial and defense applications. Now these Mercury solutions can scale
beyond the chassis walls. The dual-chassis configuration of the ImpactRT 3200
scales to 152 PowerPC processors, while dual-chassis PowerStream 7000 systems
scale to 240 processors.
"In the most demanding commercial and defense applications, our customers have
an almost unlimited appetite for processing power and intra-system bandwidth,"
said Richard Jaenicke, director of product management at Mercury Computer
Systems Inc. "Our new Serial RapidIO connections will enable us to boost the
solutions capability for these customers to the next level."
Each multiple-fiber Serial RapidIO link operates at approximately 10 Gb per
second. Connections between chassis generally use multiple links, with 16 or
more inter-chassis links available on PowerStream 7000 systems. Future
implementations are expected to extend beyond dual-chassis systems to link
together even larger systems.
The ImpactRT 3200 is a fully integrated multicomputer that combines RapidIO
interprocessor communications with PowerPC 7447A microprocessors to provide an
effective solution for high-performance industrial and laboratory computing
applications. Each PowerStream 7000 chassis delivers extreme processing
density with up to one TeraFLOPS of processing power within an air- cooled
chassis, suited to the rigors of military deployment environments.
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