2012-04-23Mercury Computer Systems Launches High Performance, Low Power OpenVPX Products Based on 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor for Defense and Aerospace Applications
New mobile-class OpenVPX products augment Mercury’s server-class and GPGPU building blocks providing latest processor technologies for embedded real-time applications
CHELMSFORD, Mass. - April 23, 2012
- Mercury Computer Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY,
www.mc.com), a trusted provider of commercially developed application-ready ISR
and EW subsystems for defense prime contractors, announced the
Ensemble® Series 6U OpenVPX™ LDS6524 and the 3U OpenVPX
SBC3512 modules based on the 22 nanometer 3rd generation Intel® Core™
processor family (formerly codenamed “Ivy Bridge”). Utilizing the quad-core Intel® Core™ i7-3615QE processor for the LDS6524
and the quad-core Intel® Core™ i7-3612QE processor for
the SBC3512, the new OpenVPX modules deliver greatly improved performance per
watt, a key design metric for high-performance defense and aerospace
applications.
For applications that require the absolute highest
performance, the 3rd Generation Intel Core processor family supports a higher
maximum clock speed at the same power dissipation compared to prior generation
products. Customers that have field-tested and deployed the 2nd Generation
Intel Core™ i7 processor-based products from Mercury can now upgrade
to the new LDS6524 or SBC3512 without expensive software recoding or
system-level redesign. Additionally, for applications that require the absolute
lowest power, performance can be controlled with advanced software features in
the Intel Core processor that greatly reduce power dissipation dynamically
during run-time.
“Offering optimized building blocks and staying in lockstep
with the latest technologies is critical for our customers to rapidly deploy
best-of-breed defense and aerospace applications,” said Steve Patterson, Vice
President of Defense Product Management, Mercury Computer Systems. “Mercury
is unique in that we deliver both Intel mobile-class and Intel server-class
based products and we are committed to offering the latest Intel processors as
they become available. With this capability, customers can mix and match server
and mobile-class processor technologies to achieve a 3-5x system performance
improvement,” continued Patterson.
“The 3rd generation Intel®
Core™ processor family used in Mercury’s new OpenVPX rugged products
is based on the 22 nanometer process technology and brings increased
performance at the same power dissipation of the previous generation,” said Matt
Langman, director of marketing, Intel Intelligent Systems Group. “Higher
performance combined with the Intel® AVX processing capability on
the four cores meets signal processing requirements as well as the computing
needs of traditional, embedded real-time applications.”
Mercury offers a variety of validated
building block types so customers can configure OpenVPX systems to optimize
their specific application. The new mobile-class LDS6524 can be combined with Mercury’s recently
announced server-class Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 family-based HDS6601 to
maximize the number of processors in the OpenVPX system while also configuring
the right amount of I/O for the application. Mercury offers a full ecosystem of
building blocks for the most demanding applications. Specialty
processors such as FPGA- and GPGPU-based Mercury modules can be added to the
system to enable the best technology for each stage of the signal processing
chain. These modules are interconnected with industry-standard I/O, based on Mercury’s
high-speed, low-latency Protocol Offload Engine Technology (POET™), enabling
a software-compatible ecosystem for systems with unmatched size, weight, and
power (SWaP) characteristics.
Customers recognize application software code preservation is
important for both rapid time to market and lower life cycle cost. Since the LDS6524
and SBC3512 are software-compatible with previous product generations and are supported
by Mercury’s MultiCore Plus® software development environment,
customers preserve their software investment. MultiCore Plus delivers
high-performance data movement interfaces and processing libraries with
industry-standard open interfaces. Examples include the embedded computing industry’s
fastest interconnect software based on OpenMPI/OFED with direct access to POET™
DMA engines and the industry renowned Scientific Application Library (SAL) with
new AVX optimizations. Because the modules are based on open architecture,
third party products such as Mentor Graphics’ VSIPL++ are also available.
Additionally, customers can develop code and migrate it seamlessly from
Mercury’s workstation-based Virtual Multi-Computer (VMC) simulator to the
OpenVPX target modules, enabling quick deployment of lab-based algorithms.
The LDS6524 and SBC3512 are available now and can be
configured in air-cooled or conduction-cooled rugged versions.
For more information on the Ensemble 6U LDS6524 and 3U
SBC3512 modules, visit mc.com/Intel, or contact Mercury at
(866) 627-6951 or info@mc.com.
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Mercury Computer
Systems (www.mc.com, NASDAQ: MRCY) is a best-of-breed
provider of open, commercially developed, application-ready, multi-INT
subsystems for defense prime contractors. With
over 30 years of experience in embedded computing, superior domain expertise in
radar, EW, EO/IR, C4I and sonar applications,
and more than 300 successful program deployments including Aegis, Global Hawk
and Predator, Mercury’s Services and Systems Integration (SSI) team leads the
industry in partnering with customers to design and integrate system-level
solutions that minimize program risk, maximize application portability and
accelerate customers’ time to market.
Mercury
is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and serves customers worldwide through a
broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries and distributors.
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