Module is industry’s first open blade server architecture says Mercury Systems
Processing power for the most demanding aerospace and defence missions is provided with the Common Module System X08, said Mercury Systems. The company claimed that it is the industry’s first rugged, open standards-based blade server architecture to deliver a plug-and-play infrastructure model for tactical platforms operating at sea, on land or in the air. The module is built around the Open Compute Project (OCP) openEDGE standard and allows customers to simplify technology upgrades, said Mercury Systems.
Organisations that manage tactical data centres, signal processing systems and remotely located console controllers have historically been locked into a single hardware provider for blade ecosystems, explained Mercury, but this new architecture, allows users to mix and match modules from different vendors into a Mercury chassis, creating a tailored system.
The CMS X08 has advanced thermal and mechanical design features that deliver superior resilience to shock, vibration and temperature extremes. It is, said Mercury System, the only OCP-based server capable of surviving edge deployments for
Disaggregated compute modules can be clustered into footprints of 1U, 2U, and 3U to make the optimal use of space. Each compute module is equipped with a 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (formerly Sapphire Rapids), capacity of up to 4Tbyte of DDR5-4800 ECC memory and up to 246Tbyte of NVMe storage.
The CMS X08 is constructed with commercial off-the-shelf components such as Nvidia H100 and A100 Tensor Core GPUs. It is believed to be the only OCP-based platform engineered to comply with MIL-STD-810H and MIL-STD-167-1A standards.
Mercury Systems is a technology company that pushes processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies more accessible for today’s most challenging aerospace and defence missions. From silicon to system scale, the company enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Mercury is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, and has 24 locations worldwide.
