Mercury offers muli-processor conduction cooled systemsChelmsford 07 August 2001 Mercury Computer Systems introduced the RACE++ Series conduction-cooled systems. Applications developed on Mercury's RACE++ Series air-cooled systems will run without modification on the new RACE++ Series conduction-cooled systems. The new systems, which incorporate PowerPC 7410 "G4" processors with AltiVec technology, will provide digital signal and image processing for a variety of defense electronics platforms such as tactical fighter aircraft, smart torpedoes, helicopter-based infrared systems, airborne and ground mobile surveillance radars, and land-based tactical vehicles.
As military forces increasingly rely on commercial off-the-shelf
(COTS) multiprocessing systems, the demand has grown for
conduction-cooled products that can operate in harsh environments
where convection (air) cooling is not possible. For example,
conduction cooling is often the only solution available in battlefield
or airborne systems, which are subject to widely varying temperatures
and humidity, dirt and dust, and extreme vibration and shock.
Designers of radars, reconnaissance cameras, and radio receivers now
have the ability to locate high-performance signal processing
solutions alongside system sensors in the corrosive atmospheres and
harsh environments where there is little or no air flow.
The key to scalable computing power in these new conduction-cooled
systems is the RACE++ switch fabric interconnect. The RACE++ fabric
enables multiple high-speed data transfers simultaneously by providing
multiple pathways between network nodes. Initial system configurations
can scale from 6 GFLOPS and 1 GB/second to more than 85 GFLOPS and 6
GB/second.
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