Mercury Systems Unveils First Intel Xeon E5 Broadwell Architecture-based OpenVPX Blade Server

ANDOVER, Mass., Feb. 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, ) announced the EnsembleSeries^™ HDS6603B blade server, the embedded computing industry’s most powerful open systems architecture (OSA) general processing blade in a rugged 6U OpenVPX^™ package. Powered by dual Intel^® Xeon^® E5 processors using the latest “Broadwell” microarchitecture, the HDS6603B blade server has the same proven cooling, packaging and interconnect technologies found in earlier generations of Mercury Xeon E5 blades. These open system compliant technologies have a technology readiness level of nine (TRL-9) making the blades well-suited to rugged defense applications and upgrades.

Intel’s Broadwell architecture reduces fabrication geometry to increase clock speed and core count options, while lowering the power consumed. With up to 28 cores from dual 2.2GHz, QPI-enabled devices, each HDS6603B blade delivers an industry-leading 1.61 TFLOPS of general-purpose processing power.

“Mercury’s growing rugged server line of products is enabling our customers to place the real-time processing capability they require on their platforms to execute smarter, next generation missions,” said Joe Plunkett, Mercury’s Senior Director and General Manager for Sensor Processing solutions. “Our new HDS6603B blade server brings even more processing capability, a reduced power draw and optionally may include built-in modified-off-the-shelf (MOTS+) and BuiltSECURE^™ technologies, enabling them to be deployed anywhere with the highest levels of reliability.”

EnsembleSeries Features & Capabilities

With a 30-year track record in delivering reliable solutions for defense applications, Mercury’s blade servers are known for their long life-cycles, high-performance, environmental resiliency, interoperability, and SWaP optimization.

Processing Power: EnsembleSeries HDS6603B blades feature dual Intel Xeon E5 data center processors with Broadwell architecture, 256GB of DDR4-2133 SDRAM shared system memory, and provide 1.61 TFLOPS of general processing power with QPI, AVX2 and FMA functionality.

Security: Optional BuiltSECURE technologies counter nation-state reverse engineering with systems security engineering (SSE) that enables turnkey or private and personalized security solutions to be quickly configured. The extensible nature of Mercury’s SSE delivers system-wide security that evolves over time, building in future proofing. As countermeasures are developed to offset emerging threats, Mercury’s security framework keeps pace, maintaining system-wide integrity.

Ruggedness: Optional MOTS+ technology leverage enhanced commercial components, board fabrication rules, and subsystem design techniques for extra durability and withstand extreme temperature cycles and mechanical excitation better than other rugged designs.

Advanced Packaging and Cooling: EnsembleSeries HDS6603B server blades are packaged using Mercury’s proven fifth generation of advanced packaging, cooling and interconnects. Collectively these technologies protect the blades from the harshest environments, keeping them cool for long, reliable service lives while enabling consistent 40Gbps in-system OpenVPX switch fabric bandwidth.

Open Systems Architecture: EnsembleSeries HDS6603B blades are OpenVPX-compliant, making them ideal for technology refreshes.

Applications: With their faster clocks, large core counts and 256GB of shared DDR4-2133 SDRAM, EnsembleSeries HDS6603B blades memory are ideally suited to complex on-platform processing applications including sensor fusion, deep learning, and artificial intelligence which characteristically require about six times as much memory as a regular data center server and twice the storage.

Mercury’s HDS6603B blades are designed, manufactured, coded and supported in the USA from DMEA certified facilities and will be available in the company’s third fiscal quarter. For more information, visit or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or .

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Robert McGrail, Director of Corporate Communications

Mercury Systems, Inc.

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