Mercury introduces RACE++Chelmsford 09 January 2001 Mercury Computer Systems has introduced the RACE++ Series VantageRT 7400 processing system, which promises to compute image and signal-processing algorithms four times faster than its earlier products. The unit combines RACE++, the company's second-generation interconnect architecture, and the performance of the Motorola PowerPC 7400 microprocessor with AltiVec technology to provide high-performance processing systems that scale from two to 32 processors in an industrial PC chassis.
Each base module contains two PowerPC 7400 processors and uses high-bandwidth
RACE++ connections to communicate with processors on other base modules. The
systems come with a full set of real-time software for image -and
signal-processing applications, including an integrated development environment,
multiprocessor communications libraries and algorithm libraries hand optimized
for the AltiVec vector-processing engine.
Applications for the systems include digital television, medical imaging
modalities such as multislice computed tomography, digital X-ray and
interventional imaging; military applications using the peripheral component
interconnect environment (PCI) from sonar to ground stations; and wireless
communications.
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