There’s no doubt about the fact that space is at a premium within any airborne computer application. Another fact is that additional weight causes excess fuel consumption, and that increases an aircraft’s operating costs. Computer horsepower is needed to make this all happen within the size, weight and power (SWaP) limitations of a surveillance aircraft. So how do you balance these application realities with more compelling need for fast, accurate and dependable airborne surveillance information?
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Trenton was contacted by a major military contractor to provide a solution for airborne surveillance. These rackmount systems would need to meet SWaP requirements but they must also provide the necessary performance, long-term support and ruggedness for such a deployment.
Trenton’s COTS multi-server rackmount computer systems proved to be the correct solution. These lightweight aluminum rackmount computers can house up to four dual XEON single board computers (SBC) in a single system. A fabric link through the segmented backplanes provides internal high-speed communications across the platform. The system below features four multi-core XEON single board computers mets the mission data communication and analysis needs while minimizing SWaP.
Trenton TRC5000 Quad SBC Rackmount Computer
Trenton’s whitepaper on cluster computing solutions used in this airborne surveillance application was published in the Intel Embedded Innovator magazine. Many of these multi-board, SWaP, multi-core processor and virtualization technologies deployed in system solutions are applicable in industries beyond Government & Defense, including Video Processing and Industrial Automation.
Our customer-driven philosophy and systems engineering capabilities are combined with long-life single board computers, backplanes and embedded motherboards to create rugged military computing solutions designed to your exact specifications. Call us at 800.875.6031 or 770.287.3100 to discuss your requirements.
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Nice article. I posted it to our ECD web site RSS as Industry news. It should be up by Friday.
Thanks for the support Dennis!