Scalable PCI system delivers blazing 128-GFLOPS processing power
By Warren Webb -- EDN, January 24, 2002
Mercury Computer Systems' Race++ Series VantageRT 7410 system raises the bar for PCI-based digital-, signal-, and image-processing applications (Picture). With as many as 32 500-MHz PowerPC "G4" processors operating in unison, the system can deliver 128 GFLOPS in a single PCI chassis. The system's processing power and scalability provides support for new medical-imaging applications, such as multislice computer tomography, digital X-ray, and interventional imaging.
The VantageRT combines processing power with I/O flexibility, driving onboard Ultra SCSI and PMC devices, as well as other PCI modules you insert into the system. Each PCI module has two computation nodes with 256 Mbytes of SDRAM and 2 Mbytes of L2 cache, a Race++ crossbar, two over-the-top Race++ ports, a PCI-64 connector on the bottom, a PMC connector, and a SCSI III connector.
Support for VantageRT 7410 systems comes from Mercury's real-time software environment, including an integrated development environment, multiprocessor communications libraries, and algorithm libraries for the AltiVec vector-processing engine.
US volume discount price for the Race++ Series VantageRT 7410 base module starts at $13,200. Products are available 60 days after receipt of order.
Mercury Computer Systems Inc, 1-978-256-0052, www.mc.com.
