PowerBlock 200 Wins Frost & Sullivan Innovation of the Year
Frost & Sullivan announced yesterday that Mercury won the 2006 Aerospace & Defense Computer Product Innovation of the Year Award for developing the PowerBlock (TM) 200, a compact and rugged signal processing appliance based on the Cell Broadband Engine processor. For more Information visit: http://mc.com/PowerBlock200/
PowerBlock(TM) 200 System
Unprecedented Processing Density for Deployed Ground Vehicles
The transformational vision of the network-centric digital battlefield requires that soldiers at all levels have access to any and all sensor information and that sensors dynamically target regions of interest. These highly compute-intensive tools have been waiting in concept laboratories for the day when sufficient computing power could be delivered in the appropriate compact, ruggedized package, onboard tactical ground vehicles such as tanks or HMMWVs. The wait is over.
The new PowerBlock(TM) 200 processing appliance from Mercury Computer Systems promises to unleash enormous compute power, enabling exciting applications that were previously inconceivable to deploy in power, space, and environmentally constrained platforms. Based on the Cell Broadband Engine(TM) (BE) processor, the PowerBlock 200 delivers 200 GFLOPS - the processing capacity of 45 Intel® Pentium® 4 processors - within a rugged ATR chassis about the size of a common toaster.
Imagine mobile military personnel accessing real-time, fused, high-resolution, cross-battlefield sensor data. Imagine displaying dynamic 3D, interpretive views of the battlefield in real time within every vehicle. Imagine law enforcement professionals detecting illegal drug manufacturing using mobile chemical-sensing technology. The PowerBlock 200 delivers the computing muscle needed to realize today's most visionary defense and commercial application ideas, turning raw data into actionable information for every warfighter and law enforcement professional.
