Sea Air Space 2016 Exposition, Booth 2519, National Harbor, Maryland, USA – Crystal Group Inc., a trusted manufacturing partner of rugged commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) custom-developed computers, displays, switches, and storage devices, today announced the introduction of the RS4104 and RS4198L24, two high performance and highly configurable rugged servers. These platforms are rack mounted servers designed to feature Dual Intel® Haswell or Broadwell E5 Xeon processors paired with high performance coprocessors like the Xeon PHI or nVidia’s Tesla products to achieve tremendous compute processing and exceptional performance.
“Our new 4U servers deliver rugged solution platforms for extremely fast processing capability in the field,” says Jim Shaw, Crystal Group’s Executive Vice President of Engineering. “These combine the cost-effectiveness of COTS hardware with ruggedization for high speed processing performance in harsh environments including airborne, shipborne, mobile ground and industrial applications.”
Data collected in the field is rapidly growing in volume and is expected to be analyzed, often in minutes or hours, not days. Many times the data is gathered in real-time, analyzed quickly and is immediately made available for decision makers. Crystal Group has designed these units to accept GP/GPU engines such as the Xeon Phi, AMD FirePro, or the nVidia Tesla platforms. The combination of the processing power of the server class motherboard and the parallel processing capability of dedicated coprocessors make these devices ideal for data intensive applications including Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), radar signal processing, training and oil & gas exploration.
The RS4104 and RS4198L24 are driven by leading edge Intel® Haswell or Broadwell E5-2600 V3 or V4 processors and can be configured with up to 1.5TB Registered DDR4 of memory, delivering high performance for most processor intense applications.
The RS4104 also supports up to 10 PCIe 3.0 x8 or 5 PCIe 3.0 x16 expansion slots for add-in cards and is powered by a 1780W power supply. The unit is 20” in depth, 17.5” in width, and fits onto an EIA-310 rack with options for Crystal Glides, fixed mount or Jonathan rails.
The RS4198L24 supports up to 10 PCIe 3.0 x16 expansion slots (8 of which can support double width cards) for add-in cards and is powered by 3200W 2+2 power supplies. The unit is 24” in depth, 17.5” in width, and fits onto an EIA-310 mounted with Crystal Glides.
The RS4104 and RS4198L24 4U are compatible with industry standard operating systems such as Windows 7®, Windows 10®, Windows Server 2008®, Windows Server 2012®, VMware® and Linux® operating systems.
About Crystal Group Inc.
Crystal Group Inc., an employee-owned small business located in Hiawatha, Iowa, USA, is a technology innovation leader specializing in both custom and COTS products for defense, government and industrial markets since 1987. Crystal Group designs and manufactures installation-ready rugged servers, displays, networking devices, embedded systems, power supplies and storage devices that fit critical applications in demanding environmental conditions.
The company is certified to quality management standards AS9100C:2009 and ISO 9001:2008. Crystal Group products meet and exceed MIL-STDs 810, 167-1, 461, MIL-S-901, IEEE and IEC industrial standards. Additionally, the company offers integration services, configuration management, product life-cycle planning and 5+ year warranties.
To learn more visit www.crystalrugged.com and follow on Facebook and Twitter@CrystalGroup.
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