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What is NVMe? A Guide to Non-Volatile Memory Express
by Will Shirley on May 13, 2021 11:30:00 AM
Photo: An M.2 NVMe SSD, for used high-speed, PCIe-based reading and writing of data Non-volatile storage media has long been one of the most restrictive bottlenecks in high-performance computing. Humanity generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily. That data has to be stored somewh …
Internet-of-Things Crosses Business / Personal Boundaries
by Will Shirley on Oct 2, 2018 4:15:14 PM
It's a sign of the times that we're shifting from BYOB (Bring Your Own Beverage) to the modern age of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and it's this rapid adoption of devices and associated notion of always being connected that is driving the expansion of the IoT (Internet-of-Things) int …
3rd Party Supplier vs. Manufacturer
by Will Shirley on Sep 21, 2018 9:51:06 AM
Recently, a customer called Trenton Systems, frantic, with a problem. Their supplier had given them a lead time which would make it such that they would not make their promised delivery date to their end client. It was egregious—16 weeks.
BPG8155 Backplane Brings PCIe 3.0 to Military Computing
by Will Shirley on Feb 11, 2018 12:00:00 PM
Trenton Systems' BPG8155 PCIe backplane brings the power and performance of PCI Express Gen3 to the world of rugged, military computing. Representing another example of Trenton Systems' approach to systems engineering, the BPG8155 takes full advantage of our BXT7059 single board compu …
NVIDIA GPU Test Drive
by Will Shirley on Feb 9, 2018 9:41:37 AM
NVIDIA® CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model that allows the company's Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to provide general purpose processing. General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing excels at the processing of large blocks of parallelized data. GPGPUs break thes …
PCI Express-driven Cyrptographic Systems Tech Challenges
by Will Shirley on Feb 7, 2018 3:23:17 PM
Correctly routing PCIe signal traces is a design challenge that few companies can handle well, and taking short cuts in single board computer and backplane designs which utilize the PCI Express interface will always result in suboptimal system performance particularly in rugged cyrpto …
NVMe Data Storage Gaining Traction
by Will Shirley on Feb 7, 2018 3:12:41 PM
We are drowning in storage data! In the commercial markets, think of all those selfies and videos that are populating the internet every second of every day. In our embedded computing market space, think of all the data that is being generated and needs to find a storage home. Our fri …
PCI Express Expansion Product Family Extends I/O Capability
by Will Shirley on Jan 8, 2018 10:17:25 AM
Trenton's family of PCI Express Expansion products deliver a simplified yet high-speed method of securely adding system I/O cards to an existing host server. These new products provide a x16 PCIe link from your host server to any of Trenton's PCIe Expansion chassis. Industry standard …
PCI Express-driven Cryptographic Systems Tech Challenges
by Will Shirley on Jan 4, 2018 9:55:01 AM
Correctly routing PCIe signal traces is a design challenge that few companies can handle well, and taking short cuts in single board computer and backplane designs which utilize the PCI Express interface will always result in suboptimal system performance particularly in rugged cyrpto …
You Can Have Any Color You Want
by Will Shirley on Jan 4, 2018 9:38:07 AM
Mr. Henry Ford was quoted as saying that, “A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black.” While it is true that most of the rackmount computer systems we ship do indeed have a black face plate, different chassis colors or special chassis labeling and logo …