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News Release from: Sight Systems | Subject: Custom computer systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 6 November 2006
Complex systems control aero test cells
A recent Sight Systems undertaking was the installation and maintenance of the first of five test cells for a large European aero engineering company
The company's engineers collaborated with the prime contractor to help set up and maintain these complex systems. Sight Systems had supplied the client with many of the computer systems that were installed in the cells. These were designed and built by the company from the original customer requirements.
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This was a large project which involved a number of visits to Europe by Sight Systems' technical staff.
The systems we supplied were a mixture of 1U dual mini-ITX units, 3U 2Tbyte servers and 2U data acquisition units.
This was combined with furnishing 20 custom made rack-mount cabinets and the integration of the company's software.
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Sight Systems has announced the availability of a dual Mini-ITX computer system packaged in a compact 1U-high 19in rack mount enclosure
The PCs supplied were all original units, custom designed to meet the customer's strict requirements.
The mini-ITX units are rack mounted PCs featuring two complete systems in a 1U custom made chassis using two mini-ITX motherboards, each seating a 2GHz Pentium M processor.
The memory used on each board was a 512Mbyte, 533MHz DDR2 module.
For storage two 80Gbyte SATA hard disks were added.
The 3U servers feature high performance dual-core Opteron processors running at 2.4GHz.
The memory consists of 1Gbyte of DDR333 ECC RAM.
Sight used an 80Gbyte SATA hard disk as a boot drive and installed four 250Gbyte SATA2 hard disks for implementing a high capacity and performance 2Tbyte, RAID 5 storage array.
The 2U data acquisition units have a Socket 775 type motherboard, with a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor.
There is provision for a full length acquisition card powering 32 BNC connectors, which protrude from the front of the unit for easy access.
The memory installed was 1Gbyte of DDR2 533MHz RAM and a 80Gbyte SATA hard disk was used for storage.
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