The PowerMatrix-24 and PowerMatrix-48 SMP are two of the offerings in the PowerMatrix family of fully integrated open-architecture systems. The PowerMatrix-24 and 48 provide developers with an application-software ready multi-processor system with easily customizable I/O.
Based on twelve dual or quad SMP PowerPC boards, the PowerMatrix-24 and 48 are ideally suited for applications that require a high level of CPU processing and sharing of data between the processing units.
When tasks such as RADAR target analysis are given to the PowerMatrix-24/48 system, the shared memory and two or four PowerPC 7457 CPU clusters with their Altivec units, make short order of the work. When the processing is complete on one board, the high speed StarFabric interconnect fabric can move the data at 200 MB/sec from one board to another with a bisectional bandwidth of 1200 MB/sec.
With twelve and twenty-four open PMC sites respectfully, the PowerMatrix-24/48 system can be configured with many standard I/O options including Serial FPDP, Fibre Channel, MIL-STD-1553 and high-speed A/D channels. These user definable options, combined with the standard Gigabit Ethernet, Serial I/O and (SATA or FireWire), allow the PowerMatrix-24 and PowerMatrix-48 to receive raw data and transmit results to other parts of the system
in fast and flexible ways.
Processing Performance:
- 24 or 48 PowerPC 7457's @ 1 GHz
- Organized as twelve 2 or 4 CPU clusters
- 192 to 384 GFLOPS peak performance
Components
- 12 Manta DX3 dual or QX3 quad PPC
- 2 StarBlade StarFabric Switch cards
Interconnect - StarFabric
- Non-blocking Mesh
- 1200 Mbytes/s system bandwidth
Software and Boards Support Packages
- Linux 4.0.2
- VxWorks 6.2
- Continuum Vector DSP Library
- Global Buffer Manager
Chassis
- 1 - 21-slot VME 64x chassis
