Jun 6, 2013 | Industrial Computers
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…
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Jun 6, 2013 | Industrial Computers
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…
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May 30, 2013 | Industrial Computers
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…
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May 28, 2013 | Industrial Computers
There are degrees of rugged computing environments. Rugged systems can be designed to survive shock, vibration, altitude, and temperature extremes, but there are times when a computer or display may need to operate in a considerably more hazardous location. The National Electrical Code (NEC) defines hazardous locations as being where…
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May 27, 2013 | Industrial Computers
Introduction
RAID is an acronym which stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It combines multiple disk drives into a logical unit. As its name implies, it provides redundancy which allows continuous access to data should a disk drive fail. When a server wants to store data it sends a…
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May 15, 2013 | Industrial Computers
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) is an evolution of the Parallel ATA (PATA) interface that was developed for connecting a host system to peripheral devices, such as hard disk drives and optical storage drives. The need for increased data transfer rates drove the move from a parallel bus interconnect to…
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