Crystal Group Introduces the RS4104 and RS4198L24 High Performance Computing Rugged Servers

Crystal Group Inc., a trusted manufacturing partner of rugged commercial-off the-shelf (COTS) custom-developed computers, displays, switches, and storage devices, announced the introduction of the RS4104 and RS4198L24, two high performance and highly configurable rugged servers.

These platforms are rack mounted servers designed to feature Dual Intel® Haswell or Broadwell E5 Xeon processors paired with high performance co-processors like the Xeon PHI or nVidia’s Tesla products to achieve tremendous computer processing and exceptional performance.

Data collected in the field is rapidly growing in volume and is often expected to be analysed within minutes or hours, not days. Crystal Group has designed these units to accept GP/GPU engines such as the Xeon Phi, AMD FirePro, or the nVidia Tesla platforms. The combination of the processing power of the server class motherboard and the parallel processing capability of dedicated co-processors make these devices ideal for data intensive applications including Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), radar signal processing, training and oil & gas exploration. The data can be gathered from the boards, analysed quickly and is immediately made available for decision makers.

The RS4104 and RS4198L24 are driven by leading edge Intel® Haswell or Broadwell E5-2600 V3 or V4 processors and can be configured with up to 1.5TB Registered DDR4 of memory, delivering high performance for most processor intense applications.

The RS4104 also supports up to 10 PCIe 3.0 x8 or 5 PCIe 3.0 x16 expansion slots for add-in cards and is powered by a 1780W power supply. The unit is 20” in depth, 17.5” in width, and fits onto an EIA-310 rack with options for Crystal Glides, fixed mount or Jonathan rails.

The RS4198L24 supports up to 10 PCIe 3.0 x16 expansion slots (8 of which can support double width cards) for add-in cards and is powered by 3200W 2+2 power supplies. The unit is 24” in depth, 17.5” in width, and fits onto an EIA-310 mounted with Crystal Glides.

The RS4104 and RS4198L24 4U are compatible with industry standard operating systems such as Windows 7®, Windows 10®, Windows Server 2008®, Windows Server 2012®, VMware® and Linux® operating systems.