Mercury unleashes SR-110 10GE VXS Gateway

Tag : Memory Fabric
Mercury Computer Systems has announced availability of the SR-11010GE VXS Gateway, a network-centric building block for VXS systems.For network-attached multiprocessing, the SR-110 10GE VXS Gatewayfrom Mercury automatically transports the network data (through10GE) into the VXS chassis, which in turn streams the data into theserial RapidIO fabric, making the data available to all VXS computenodes in the chassis. After user application computations arecomplete, the data is transported out of the system through theGateway to the 10GE network. The SR-110 10GE VXS Gateway self-bootsat power-up, and is user-configurable. No other programming or userintervention is required to enable high-bandwidth data streams intoand out of the Gateway.

Based on the Freescale MPC8548 processor, the Mercury SR-110 10GEVXS Gateway is an integrated platform that includes a PowerArchitecture core, serial RapidIO, Gigabit Ethernet controllers,and an integrated DDR2 memory interface. With MultiCore Plussoftware, the SR-110 10GE VXS Gateway supports both gateway andbridging modes. Support features include: bridging/forwarding ofall Ethernet frames (Transparent Layer 2 switch in bridge mode),broadcast and multicast with IGMP v2 snooping in both directions,and redundant/failover gateway support.