Mercury: New Reconfigurable Computing System

"Mercury Computer Systems Delivers Reconfigurable Computing Solution that Cuts Signal Processing Footprint in Half
　First customer of new system configuration to realize unprecedented performance and I/O rates from a single system
　comprised of both FPGAs and PowerPCs", July 24, 2006
　http://www.mc.com/mediacenter/pr/news_details.cfm?press_id=2006%5F07%5F24%5F0900%5F103646%5F34632pr%2Ecfm
　"announced the availability of its reconfigurable computing variant of the Mercury PowerStream(R) 7000
　 multicomputer. The PowerStream 7000 FCN (FPGA Compute Node) can incorporate up to 69 Xilinx(R)
　 seven-million-gate field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) connected by a RapidIO(R) switch fabric, enabling
　 twice the processing performance in the same system footprint."

　"Mercury Computer Systems recently delivered the PowerStream 7000 FCN to Lockheed Martin for use with
　 the Aegis Weapon System it developed for the U.S. Navy."


PowerStream 7000 System (筐体：巨大です)
　http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=19&type=systems
　"The PowerStream® 7000 system delivers extreme processing density with 1 TFLOPS or more of total processing
　 power in an air-cooled, deployable chassis."
　空調 (冷却) 関係では、かなりの工夫がされています(特許出願中)。

PowerStream 7000 Processor Module (Freescale™ MPC7447A PowerPC: 5 nodes)
　http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=99&type=boards
　Five compute nodes, each with:
　　MPC7447A processor (1.0 GHz)
　　1 GB DDR SDRAM
　　8 MB flash EEPROM
　　Mercury RapidIO CN ASIC

PowerStream 7000 FCN Module (FPGA compute node)
　http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=98&type=boards
　Three Xilinx Virtex-II Pro P70-6 FPGAs, each with:
　　5 at 3.125 Gbaud to each other onboard FPGA, full-duplex
　　Parallel RapidIO ports per FPGA: 1
　　SRAM
　　　Capacity per FPGA: 32 MB (QDR II)
　　　Bandwidth per FPGA: 5.6 GB/s full-duplex (peak)
　　DRAM
　　　Capacity per FPGA: 128 MB (RLDRAM)
　　　Bandwidth per FPGA: 2.8 GB/s (peak)
　　4 at 3.125 Gbaud off-board (front panel)
　　8 LVDS lines off-board (front panel)
　Two 10-Gpbs full-duplex fiber-optic connections (1 on each of 2 FPGAs)


同じ会社の製品として：
　Mercury: Cell Technology Evaluation Systems, 2006-01-11
　Cell Broadband Engine Links IV [], 2006-06-17