Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com) announced the
EnsembleSeries™ HDS6605 blade server, the embedded computing
industry’s most powerful, general-purpose processing 6U OpenVPX™
blade server with hardware-enabled support for artificial
intelligence (AI) applications.
Powered by Second Generation Intel®
Xeon® Scalable processors, HDS6605 blade servers feature the
same cooling, packaging and 100 Gbps in-system switch fabric
interconnect technologies found in earlier proven generations of
Mercury blades based on Intel Xeon processors. These open
systems-compliant technologies have a technology readiness level of
nine (TRL-9), making HDS6605 blades well-suited to rugged defense
applications and upgrades that require the utmost in processing
capability.
“With the new Second Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors,
Mercury’s OpenVPX blade servers deliver a huge boost to the
industry’s ability to embed the big data processing capability
required for new, smarter and autonomous military missions,” said
Joe Plunkett, Mercury’s Senior Director and General Manager for
Sensor Processing solutions. “This next-generation compute
capability delivers enhanced performance and power optimized for
modern AI applications which enable our customers to take data
center processing capability all the way to the tactical edge.”
HDS6605 blade servers are highly optimized for AI and other
extreme compute-intensive general processing workloads typically
associated with sensor fusion, complex C4I and deep-learning
applications. Second Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
feature Intel® Deep Learning Boost, which extends Intel Advanced
Vector Extensions-512 (Intel AVX-512) to accelerate inference
applications like speech recognition, image recognition, language
translation, object detection, and more. Its new set of embedded
accelerators (Vector Neural Network Instructions, or VNNIs) speed
up dense computations characteristic of convolutional neural
networks (CNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs), delivering up to a
14x improvement in inference performance compared to the
first-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor launched in July
2017(1). Along with increased scalability via ultrapath
interconnect (UPI) , each blade provides up to 22 cores from a
single 1.9GHz device, delivering an industry-topping 2.6 TFLOPS of
general-purpose processing power.
EnsembleSeries Features & CapabilitiesWith
a 35-year track record of delivering high-reliability processing
solutions for defense and aerospace applications, Mercury’s
EnsembleSeries blades and other embedded computing servers are
known for their long lifecycles, high performance, environmental
resiliency, interoperability and SWaP optimization. EnsembleSeries
HDS6605 blades are available with up to 100 Gbps in-chassis switch
fabrics and optional modified-off-the-shelf (MOTS+) and
BuiltSECURE™ technologies for extreme environmental protection
and proven systems security engineering (SSE).
Processing Power: EnsembleSeries HDS6605 blades
feature a Second Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor with 22
cores at 1.9 GHz and are supported with up to 192GB of fast
DDR4-2933 memory. Each HDS6605 delivers 2.6 TFLOPS of general
processing power, the most per-blade processing available in the
embedded computing industry today.(2)
Open Systems Architecture: HDS6605 blades are
OpenVPX compliant and SOSA compatible, making them ideal for
technology refreshes and have options for MOTS+ and BuiltSECURE
technologies for extreme durability and proven built-in systems
security engineering (SSE).
Security: BuiltSECURE System Security
Engineering (SSE) IP enables turnkey or personalized security
solutions that help safeguard against present and emerging threats.
Extensible and composable, Mercury’s architectures are built to
evolve for future-proofing to maintain system-wide integrity while
reducing overall cost and program risk. Additionally, Second
Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors are embedded with Intel’s
next generation of security features and resolve known hardware
vulnerabilities.
Ruggedness: Optional MOTS+ technologies
leverage enhanced commercial components, board fabrication rules,
and subsystem design techniques for extra durability and ability to
withstand extreme temperature cycles and mechanical excitation
better than other rugged designs.
Scalability: Up to four HDS6605 blades can be
clustered via Intel®’s new ultrapath interconnect (UPI) for a truly
integrated, low-latency non-uniform memory access (NUMA) server
architecture.
Advanced Packaging and Cooling: EnsembleSeries
HDS6605 server blades are packaged using Mercury’s proven fifth
generation of advanced packaging, cooling and interconnects.
Collectively these technologies protect the blades from the
harshest environments, keeping them cool for long, reliable service
lives while enabling consistent OpenVPX switch fabric bandwidths of
up to 100 Gbps across a broad temperature range.
Applications: With an architecture enhanced for
AI processing performance, wider, faster interconnect pipes and
192GB of shared DDR4-2933 SDRAM system memory, HDS6605 blades are
ideally suited to complex on-platform applications requiring
extreme compute and I/O capabilities, including C4I, sensor fusion
and deep learning, which typically require about six times as much
memory as a conventional data center-class blade server.
Mercury’s EnsembleSeries HDS6605 blades are designed,
manufactured, coded and supported in the USA from DMEA-certified
facilities and will be available in the second quarter of 2019. For
more information, visit www.mrcy.com/HDS6605 or contact Mercury at
(866) 627-6951 or info@mrcy.com.
Mercury Systems – Innovation That
Matters®Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) is a leading
commercial provider of secure sensor and safety-critical processing
subsystems. Optimized for customer and mission success, Mercury’s
solutions power a wide variety of critical defense and intelligence
programs. Headquartered in Andover, Mass., Mercury is pioneering a
next-generation defense electronics business model specifically
designed to meet the industry’s current and emerging technology
needs. To learn more, visit www.mrcy.com and follow us on
Twitter.
Forward-Looking Safe Harbor
StatementThis press release contains certain
forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating
to fiscal 2019 business performance and beyond and the Company’s
plans for growth and improvement in profitability and cash flow.
You can identify these statements by the use of the words “may,”
“will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “plans,” “expects,”
“anticipates,” “continue,” “estimate,” “project,” “intend,”
“likely,” “forecast,” “probable,” “potential,” and similar
expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to, continued funding of defense
programs, the timing and amounts of such funding, general economic
and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the
Company’s markets, effects of any U.S. Federal government shutdown
or extended continuing resolution, effects of continued
geopolitical unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in
technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing
engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order
patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in
technological advances and delivering technological innovations,
changes in, or in the U.S. Government’s interpretation of, federal
export control or procurement rules and regulations, market
acceptance of the Company's products, shortages in components,
production delays or unanticipated expenses due to performance
quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully
realize the expected benefits from acquisitions and restructurings,
or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating
acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, increases
in interest rates, changes to cyber-security regulations and
requirements, changes in tax rates or tax regulations, changes to
generally accepted accounting principles, difficulties in retaining
key employees and customers, unanticipated costs under fixed-price
service and system integration engagements, and various other
factors beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties also
include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the
Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 2018. The Company cautions readers not to place undue
reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only
as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update
any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances
after the date on which such statement is made.
Contact:Robert McGrail, Director of Corporate
CommunicationsMercury Systems, Inc.+1 978-967-1366 /
rmcgrail@mrcy.com
Mercury Systems, EnsembleSeries and BuiltSECURE are trademarks,
and Innovation that Matters is a registered trademark of Mercury
Systems, Inc. Intel and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corp. OpenVPX
is a trademark of VITA. Other product and company names mentioned
may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
holders.
(1) |
On Intel® Xeon® Platinum
8280 processor w/ Intel® DL Boost for ResNet-50 (image
classification workload) using Intel® Optimizations for Caffe vs
Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 processor at launch. |
(2) |
Performance
tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific
computer systems, components, software, operations and functions.
Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary.
You should consult other information and performance tests to
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including the performance of that product when combined with other
products. For more information go to www.intel.com/benchmarks |
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