The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is a group of over 220 companies. Founded in 1994, this group was originally formed to adapt PCI technology for use in telecommunications, military, and industrial computing applications.
PICMG uses a numerical naming convention with the specification being referred to as “PICMG X.YY”.… Read More
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), a standardized computer system interface, allows for remote monitoring of rugged computer system operation. The standard enjoys broad support from multiple manufacturers. It’s been around since the late 1990’s and has undergone multiple updates to offer broader functionality.
IPMI uses messages to communicate independently… Read More
Rugged computer systems are being used increasingly in mobile environments. These systems capture a variety of sensor data. Is it important in your application to know when and where something happened? Time and position can be very important factors in synchronizing this information from multiple sources or data streams.
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Do you need to take your supercomputer into a harsh environment? Today’s rugged computers are capable of analyzing huge amounts or real-time sensor data. This is achieved by harnessing the computational performance of today’s GPU’s. There are exciting opportunities for using GPU’s to solve problems like image analysis in defense… Read More
When we talk about GPU computing, we are referencing General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units, also known as GPGPU. GPU computing accelerates application performance by offloading compute-intensive portions of the application to the GPU, while the remainder of the code still runs on the CPU. Applications run significantly faster… Read More
A Rack Unit (RU), also referred to as just U, is a measurement that refers to the height or space between shelves on a vertical storage rack designed to hold computer or AV equipment. Standard rack widths are 19 and 23 inches. The size of the rack mounted equipment is… Read More
