Mercury: Cell Accelerator Board (2.8 GHz, PCI-e16)

[06/08/19]
"マーキュリー、PCWS向けのCellアクセラレータボードを発売", CNET Japan Staff, 2006/08/18
　http://japan.zdnet.com/news/hardware/story/0,2000056184,20205447,00.htm
　"日本マーキュリーコンピュータシステムズは8月17日、Cell Broadband Engineプロセッサ（Cell BE）
　 ベースの製品である「Mercury Cell Accelerator Board（CAB）」の国内販売を開始すると発表した。"

　"現在、プロトタイプを限定供給中で、2007年第1四半期までに量産に入る予定。価格は1枚当たり
　 127万円。"
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[06/08/01]
"Mercury Computer Systems Brings the Cell BE Processor to the PC Workstation Architecture", 2006-07-31
　http://www.mc.com/mediacenter/pr/news_details.cfm?press_id=2006%5F07%5F31%5F0900%5F105320%5F121687pr%2Ecfm
　"announced the Mercury Cell Accelerator Board (CAB), its latest Cell Broadband Engine(TM)
　 (BE) processor-based product offering, at SIGGRAPH 2006 (Booth #828, Hall A)."

　"Featuring the Mercury MultiCore Plus(TM) Advantage, the CAB is designed to deliver an
　 unprecedented 180 GFLOPS of performance in a PCI Express(R) ATX form factor suitable for
　 compute-intensive applications such as rendering, ray tracing, video
　 and image processing, and signal processing."

　"Prototypes of the Mercury CAB are now available in limited volumes. Production availability is
　 planned for the first quarter of calendar 2007. Pricing for the Mercury Cell Accelerator Board starts
　 at US$7,999 for a single board,"


Cell Accelerator Board
　http://www.mc.com/cell/products/view/index.cfm?id=106&type=boards
　Features/Specifications
　　Cell BE processor at 2.8 GHz
　　More than 179 GFLOPS in PCI Express accelerator card
　　PCI Express x16 interface with raw data rate of 4 GB/s in each direction
　　外部向け Gigabit Ethernet interface (外部 Linuxシステムからの Bootに対応)
　　1 GB XDR DRAM, 2 channels each, 512 MB/ECC
　　4 GB DDR2
　　Flash: 2x16 MB
　　Mercury MultiCore Plus™ Advantage software available
　　　Linux®: Linux with BE-SPU extensions
　　　Host OS: Windows XP or Linux
　　　SAL (Scientific Algorithm Library): Available
　　　PAS™ (Parallel Acceleration System): Available
　　　TATL™ (Trace Analysis Tool and Library): Available
　　　MCF (MultiCore Framework): Available
　　210W (4GB DDR2)

Cell BE Processor : Products
　http://www.mc.com/cell/products/index.cfm


関連プレスリリース：
"Mercury Computer Systems Reports Initial Success with Cell BE Processor-Based Solutions; Validates Order-of-Magnitude Performance Gains", 2006-07-31
　http://www.mc.com/cell/pr/news_details.cfm?press_id=2006_07_31_0900_104423_71522pr.cfm

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関連エントリー：
　Mercury: Cell Technology Evaluation Systems, 2006-01-11
　Cell Broadband Engine Links IV [], 2006-06-17

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