[April 25, 2018] |
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General Micro Systems Launches Dual Xeon® OpenVPX Blade with Highest Compute Density of Any Server Available Today
Rackmount servers have their place, yet already-deployed defense
platforms and the world's militaries often prefer tried-and-true
OpenVPX-style systems for legacy card- and system interoperability.
Until now, upgrading those systems with the best "rack style" server
compute engine wasn't possible using OpenVPX. General Micro Systems
(GMS (News - Alert)) today changed this entirely with the launch of a 6U, dual-CPU
OpenVPX server blade with two of Intel's best Xeon®
processors-plus the rest of the server, including storage-all on
one blade.
Key Benefits of VPX450 Single-Blade OpenVPX Server
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Dual-server performance is now available on OpenVPX, no longer forcing
military systems to choose unreliable, short-life commercial servers
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An entire server comes on one 6U blade saving incredible size,
weight and power
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Two CPUs of Intel's (News - Alert) fastest 2.2 GHz, 22 core server Xeon E5's reduces
two rackmount servers to 1/12 size
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Rugged reliability, designed ground-up for high-rel military
applications means higher MTBF and trusted open standards
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80 Gen 3 PCI (News - Alert) Express lanes provide excess I/O bandwidth to all cards
in the OpenVPX backplane, assuring system-wide low latency and high
throughput
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Onboard 1 and 40 Gb Ethernet alleviates the need for separate Ethernet
card
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Designed for VITA 46 and VITA 65 compliant chassis, and VPX 48 (REDI)
convection environmental specifications.
With the "Phoenix" VPX450 OpenVPX "motherboard" installed in a deployed
and rugged air-cooled chassis, server-room performance is available to
airborne, shipboard, vetronics and battlefield installations where
rackmount servers don't fit or are inappropriate due to size, ruggedness
or foreign sourcing. Phoenix offers the raw server performance, onboard
I/O and data transfer to the rest of the OpenVPX system.
The single blade server includes 44 cores and 88 virtual machines, 1 TB
of the fastest ECC DRAM in the world, 80 lanes of PCIe Gen 3 serial
interconnect, dual 40 Gig Ethernet-plus storage and I/O.
"The VPX450 outclasses all other options, packing more compute and
communications power than has ever been available in 6U," said
Ben Sharfi, CEO and chief architect, GMS. "You cannot top these specs
and performance. There's no way."
The VPX450 "Phoenix" boasts:
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Server Engine-Dual socket 2.2 GHz Intel® Xeon®
E5 v4 with 22 cores adds to 44 total cores and 88 virtual machines on
one blade, plus 1 TB DDR4 with CC (industry's fastest 2,133 MT/s).
The CPUs are reliably cooled using GMS patented RuggedCool™ specialty
heatsinks and CPU retainers for maximum thermal transfer without CPU
throttling.
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Interconnect Fabric-80 PCIe Gen 3 lanes at 8 Gbps move data between
on-card subsystems 68 PCIe Gen 3 lanes to the OpenVPX backplane. The
industry's fastest, they assure 544 Gbps bandwidth between the Phoenix
server and OpenVPX backplane switch matrix or compute nodes. Eight
native SATA III lanes to connect across the backplane to mass storage
card(s).
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Networking-dual front panel QSFP+ sockets accept Ethernet inserts for
10 and 40 Gb, in either copper or fiber. There is no IEEE (News - Alert) networking
standard in the commercial market faster than 40 Gb Ethernet, and it's
available in this single-blade server. In the typical use case, dual
40 Gb Ethernet fiber connections provide long-haul communication to
distant sensors or intelligent nodes. Two local Ethernet ports (1 GbE
and 100Base-T) provide service connections for "low speed" networking.
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Flexible Add-in Storage and I/O-The unique VPX450 can add up to four
different types of plug-on modules. There are dual SAM I/O
PCIe-Mini sites, usually used for MIL-STD-1553 and legacy military
I/O. These sites also accept mSATA SSDs for server data storage. An
XMC front panel module provides plug-in I/O such as for a video frame
grabber or software-defined radio. Lastly, GMS provides an XMC carrier
equipped with an M.2 site, used for either storage (OS boot, for
example) or more add-in I/O.
Besides acting as a traditional OpenVPX "slot 1 controller," the VPX450
server blade can be used as part of a compute cluster system, with each
Phoenix blade providing 34,330
PassMark performance (Feb 2018). Inter-card communication via the 68
PCIe connections can be used to create a high-performance cluster
computing (HPCC) system via symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) for data
mining, augmented/virtual reality, or block chain computation.
About General Micro Systems:
General Micro Systems (GMS) is the industry expert in highest-density,
modular, compute-intensive, and rugged small form-factor embedded
computing systems, servers, and switches. These powerful systems are
ideal for demanding C4ISR defense, aerospace, medical, industrial, and
energy exploration applications. GMS is an IEC, AS9100, NIST-800-171,
and MIL-SPEC supplier with infrastructure and operations for long-life,
spec-controlled, and configuration-managed programs. Designed from the
ground up to provide the highest performance and functionality in the
harshest environments on the planet, the company's highly customizable
products include GMS RuggedDNA™ with patented RuggedCool™ cooling
technology, plus the SecureDNA™ security suite for zeroizing data with
Source (News - Alert)-Safe™ BIOS control. GMS is also the leader in deployable high-end
Intel® processors and a proud Intel® partner
since 1986. For more information, visit www.gms4sbc.com.
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