"PHOENIX" VPXC400

Rugged, Conduction Cooled, 6U OpenVPX Intel® Xeon® E5 CPU Server with Add-in I/O and Managed Ethernet Switch

Features

Computing Features
- Intel® Xeon™ Broadwell-EP CPU with up to 18 cores operating up to 2.1 GHz (Xeon® E5-26xx v4)
- Support for Hyper-Threading on each core for total of 36 logical cores
- Supports up to 512 GB of DDR4 memory with ECC
- Optional M.2 SSD (SATA or NVMe) for OS boot
- Flexible add-in I/O options via MXM/XMC site:
     - Industry-standard conduction-cooled XMC (VITA 42)
     - Choice of MXM, mSATA, SAM I/O™ or XMC site
     - Optional fixed single or dual mSATA drives (lose one SAM I/O™)
     - Optional AMD® Radeon embedded GPU E8860, up to 768 GFLOPS
     - Optional NVIDIA® Quadro® GPU M2000M, up to 1.32 TFLOPS
- Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x/VT-d2) and Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 for secure operation
- Converged Platform Power Management (CPPM) for power saving

Rear I/O and Expansion Options
- One Gigabit Ethernet service port with TCP/IP offloading for system management
- Dual 10 GbE ports (10GBASE-T)
- Four USB 2.0 ports
- Four SATA 3 ports to control separate mass storage card
- Up to two SAM™ sites for custom I/O (MIL-STD-1553, Wi-Fi/BT, GPS, etc.)
- Two Serial ports with RS-232/422/485 options
- Eight GPIO lines for user-defined control
- One console video port up to 1920 x 1080 (HD) via DVI or VGA
- Sixteen lanes PCIe Gen 3 for switched serial backplanes
- Three x1 PCIe lanes for inter-card switch fabrics
- I2C for system health monitoring
- 16 MB flash BIOS with optional write-protect/secure erase and battery-less operation
- Real Time Clock (RTC) with field-replaceable battery
- Optional panic support for system zeroize via Secure Erase of mass storage and BIOS

Networking
- Optional Intelligent Layer 2/3 Ethernet Switch with dual 10 GbE ports and twelve 1 GbE Ethernet ports
- Switch has web GUI and SNMP management interfaces via Gigabit Ethernet
- Supports Layer 2/3 software routing functions with customizable rules
- Very low latency, VLAN support, QoS/differentiated services
- Security features for authentication, authorization, multicast and spanning tree capabilities
- Support for Multicast IPv4, IPv6 with IGMPv2/3 snooping and MLD
- Internal shared memory with jumbo frame, DHCP client and server support, and SNMP

SWaP-E (Size, Weight and Power – Efficiency)
- Greatest computing density, most number of embedded cores and RAM in the industry
- Ultra-low SWaP only 11.75” x 7.75” x 2.0 @ 10 lb. and as low as 175W (requires two VPX slots)
- MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-1275D, MIL-S-901D, DO-160D, MIL-STD-461F, up to IP66 compliant
- Fully compliant to VPX™ 6U, VITA 46/47/48 standards
- Operates up to extended temp -40° C to +85° C (Optional)
- Available in ruggedization levels R1-R5
- Convection-cooled versions available upon request

- Developed in alignment with the SOSA™ Technical Standard

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  • Application

    Phoenix is a conduction-cooled, Xeon-class, VPX-based “blade” server that is ideal for heavy number-crunching applications where data is brought in via PCI Express Gen 3, 14 port Layer 2/3 managed switch, or optional add-in XMC I/O such as A/D or RF. Running Linux, Windows 10, or Microsoft® Server operating systems, Phoenix is ideal for combat and surveillance vehicles where several computers are used for data collection, targeting/mapping, and data acquisition. The VPXC400 supports the most popular Hypervisors offered by VMware®, WindRiver® and Microsoft® and may be shipped from the factory with operating systems such as Windows® and Linux® pre-installed. The VPXC400 is fully compliant to MIL-STD-810G, MIL-S-901D and DO-160D. Phoenix is developed in alignment with the SOSA™ Technical Standard.
  • General Description

    The VPXC400 "Phoenix" is a Xeon-class, VPX-based “blade” server intended for ATR or vetronics chassis. It is a dual slot conduction-cooled 6U OpenVPX module with twelve 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. This module supports a Xeon® E5 processor (E5-26xx v4) up to 18 physical cores with Hyper-Threading for a total of 36 logical cores operating at up to 2.1 GHz with the ability to TurboBoost up to 3.3 GHz. To harvest this incredible CPU performance, the CPU is coupled with up to 512GB of DDR4 RAM organized in four banks. Each RAM bank consists of two DDR4 DIMM arrays with Error Correcting Code (ECC). The ECC RAM provides 2-bit error detection with 1-bit of correction, and supports up to 2133 Mega Transfers per Second (MTS) between CPU and memory.

    Phoenix also provides twelve 1 Gigabit and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet managed switch ports. The Layer 2/3 managed switch silicon and firmware is from Microsemi and has an advanced GUI for configuration such as the creation of VLANs for local packet routing. The switch can omitted as a value-engineering option, although the 10 Gigabit ports remain standard. A separate 1 GbE Service port is also included as a way to configure or remotely query the SBC separate from the managed switch.

    Additionally, there are four USB 2.0 ports, four SATA III ports, four PCIe ports (three x1 and one x16 lanes), a VGA/DVI-D video port, and dual COM ports with RS-232/422/485 provided to the VPXC400 backplane. For custom I/O, the SBC provides one XMC site with x8 Gen 3 PCIe, an optional MXM site for GPU graphics, and an optional M.2 bootable SSD. The SBC provides two Special Application Module (SAM) sites, which support two mSATA SSD devices that may be used to boot the Operating System (OS) with RAID functions. Additional SAM I/O devices such as GPS, MIL-STD-1553, CAN bus, or other PCI Express-Mini cards may be used as well. Other I/O functions of the CPU module include: Trusted Platform Module (TPM), eight GPIO lines, 16 MB BIOS Flash, Real Time Clock (RTC) with field replaceable battery, and voltage/temperature monitoring via I2C bus. The CPU module also provides an incredible 19 lanes of PCIe Gen 3 support for I/O expansion via its VPX P1-P5 connectors.
  • Technology Used

    The Phoenix utilizes the most powerful Xeon® processor from Intel®. The Broadwell-EP CPU is a fourth-generation Nehalem processor with a fully integrated memory controller for the best possible memory performance. This CPU has many added security functions, such as Intel’s second-generation Virtualization Technology VT-x, Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), and Active Management Technology (AMT) for remote KVM functions, and Converged Platform Power Management (CPPM) for thermal management and power saving. The optional graphics engine is based around the most powerful AMD full-size, embedded MXM GPU module for outstanding performance in 2D and 3D processing and is fully virtualized.
  • Cooling

    The Phoenix is equipped with GMS' patent pending RuggedCool™ technology, which is the most unique cooling system in the industry yielding the only server “blade” that can operate up to -40°C to +85°C at full load! This cooling approach provides the lowest thermal resistance to the VPX chassis while providing the highest shock specifications known in the industry. In addition, the VPXC400 is furnished with a GMS-designed wedge lock that provides over 8x more surface area for increased heat transfer compared to standard wedge lock designs. In-PCB core card cooling thermal layers plus top-side milled heat sinks are directly extended to the GMS wedgelock’s much larger fixed center section, providing an enhanced thermal path straight to the chassis side rails/slots.
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