11 Reasons to Consider Trenton Systems for Your Next High Performance Computing Solution

Trenton Systems designs and manufactures rugged computers and long-life components. Their single board computers and PCI Express backplanes have been created specifically to satisfy customers' unique requirements for application-ready computing solutions that provide exceptional functionality, performance and reliability.

TRENTON SYSTEMS

Over thirty-five years of electronic design experience is applied to engineering long-life single board computers, backplanes and embedded motherboards. In addition to their broad selection of standard products, Trenton excels at board-level modifications and custom designs.

The new MBS1000 1U Rackmount Modular Blade Server

In addition to their in-house electronic design, mechanical design and custom design capability, there’s a long list of reasons to partner with Trenton Systems on your next high-performance computing solution.

1. Trenton PICMG 1.3 single board computers, backplanes and embedded motherboards carry a full 5-year factory warranty.
2. System configuration stability is achieved with Trenton's long-life board-level products featuring 7+ years of product availability.
3. Trenton board and system products are built tough to survive and thrive in demanding industrial computing environments, Trenton motherboards, SBCs and backplanes are designed and built within the U.S. and integrated into their system solutions.
4. Trenton offers “designed to meet” rugged system solutions as well as mil-certified products to standards such as MIL-STD-810.
5. Trenton satisfies tough application requirements by designing and building computing solutions that meet your exact specifications.
6. Trenton system solutions provide maximum system flexibility to meet both current and future application deployment needs.
7. Trenton’s 35-plus years of design engineering, manufacturing and tech support knowledge focuses on exceeding customer expectations.
8. Trenton maintains complete system BIOS control on board-level products and provides modifications in support of complex integrated systems.
9. Trenton builds standard and custom small form factor products to provide short chassis depths or small mounting footprints.
10. Trenton board-level and system products are designed and built within their ISO 9001:2008 registered facilities located in the U.S.
11. Select Trenton board and system products support the PCI Express Gen3 serial interconnect for enhanced throughput.

Trenton Systems Product Selection Guides

An easy to use series of product selection guides are available that explain the different types of products available from Trenton, their unique application attributes and technical specifications:

Rugged Rackmount 1U LCD Touchscreen Monitor and Keyboard Tray

Author: Laura Biddiscombe

Rugged computers are a necessity when you need both performance and reliability in harsh environments. This is one of the reasons why Trenton Systems has retained in-house electronic, mechanical and system BIOS engineering expertise to create board-level products and integrated computer systems designed for challenging environments.

Every military computer they integrate provides the performance, space-savings, flexibility and long-term system configuration stability necessary for airborne, shipboard, undersea and ground vehicle deployment, or applications located within command and control centres.

The TKM1503 rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor from Trenton Systems features a rugged NEMA 4 sealed 17″ LCD display with a resistive touchscreen. The aluminium 1U rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor and keyboard tray provide a backlit NEMA 4X keyboard for Mil-Spec touchscreen LCD touchscreen monitor applications. The rugged 1U monitor / keyboard tray saves rackmount component mounting space, fitting inside 19″ racks with depth dimensions from 17″ to 36″.

More about NEMA definitions

The TKM1503′s clamshell enclosure design allows additional rackmount component placement to maximise the use of limited mounting space. The sealed 17″ LCD display with resistive LCD touchscreen supports SXGA screen resolutions and over 16 million monitor colors.

Key features of the TKM1503 rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor include:

• Mil-COTS rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor & sealed keyboard
• Shallow 17″ (43.18cm) depth is ideal for transit case applications
• Watertight NEMA 4 optically bonded 17″ LCD touchscreen monitor
• Sealed 17″ LCD display with resistive touchscreen supports SXGA resolutions
• Includes NEMA 4X backlit keyboard with built-in mouse
• Integrated keyboard and mouse simplifies hardware mounting and cable routing
• Fits inside 19″ racks with depth dimensions from 17″ to 36″ (43.2cm – 91.4cm)
• Rugged, yet lightweight all-aluminium 1U rackmount enclosure design

The TKM1503 rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor is compatible with all of Trenton's rackmount computers, and is supported by Trenton’s unsurpassed US-based technical support, including their industry-leading 5 year warranty.

For more information please contact the team at Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or send us an email with your request.

See For Yourself - Introducing the TMS4702 - Rugged 4U MIL-STD Rackmount Military Computer from Trenton Systems

The TMS4702 is a 4U rackmount military computer certified to MIL-STD-810G/MIL-STD-461F, from Trenton Systems, featuring a choice of single or dual-processor SBC and a 14-slot backplane with extended PCI Express and PCI-X/PCI option card support for single system configurations.

Designed for mounting in a 19” component rack or a transit case, the TMS4702 has been certified to a number of different MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-461F environmental and electrical standards and test methods allowing you to deploy it with confidence in a variety of government & defense applications.

This solution utilises long-life system components in order to provide the configuration stability needed for extended project cycles common in military applications, and the wide array of small form factor (SFF) or 14-slot backplanes and robust single board computer options available with the TMS4702 offer a huge amount of flexibility and performance.

Available in the UK from Sarsen Technology - please get in touch with the team to discuss your application on +44 1672 511166 or email your details to info@sarsen.net.

A Trenton Systems Application Story - Oil Field Diagnostics

Amongst a whole host of other things, Trenton Systems designs and manufactures a range of rugged rackmount computer systems for test & measurement applications, including the collection, validation and analysis of data from probes and sensors that measure parameters like temperature, pressure, speed, flow, strain, vibration, humidity & torque.

In this application story we look at the use of a complete Trenton System in an Oil Field Diagnostics project.

The Customer Need
An industry leader in oil exploration and equipment relies on computer systems installed in large tractor-trailer rigs to monitor and record production data in mature oil fields. The systems can also be used in exploratory fields to gather and record geologic data from various sensors in order to determine drilling feasibility. Chassis depth is at a premium in the truck and hard drive shock is a real application concern.

The Trenton Solution
A single board computer and backplane were used in this application due to the variety of option cards (PCI Express, PCI-X and 32-bit/33MHz PCI) used by the customer. The Trenton T4L board using an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor was chosen for its long-life support feature and its low cost. The Trenton backplane chosen was the BPG6600 for the shallow-depth of the 4U computer chassis.

Trenton Value Delivered
Many systems have been delivered and put through rigorous field tests. The customer reported extraordinary performance results with the robust, cost-effective design of the Trenton TML and BPG6600 solution. The customer projected that over the lifetime of the system, Trenton’s ability to provide this same system configuration for several years will provide a significant cost savings by virtually eliminating system re-engineering design costs due to computer component EOL issues.

Trenton Systems offers an industry-leading 5 year warranty on all of their single board computers, backplanes and embedded motherboards.

The BPX8093 is one of the latest releases from Trenton Systems, supporting one PICMG® 1.3 single board computer and up to ten PCI Express I/O cards. Nine of these option card slots are PCI Express 3.0 capable.  Each option card slot uses a x16 PCIe mechanical connector to maximise system design flexibility by supporting a wide range of standard PCI Express I/O cards.

For more information please contact the Sarsen sales team on +44 1672 511166, or email us - info@sarsen.net.

It's Tuesday, and the Spotlight is on Trenton Systems....

Trenton Systems was established in 1977, and has become a global leader in the design and manufacture of board level products and fully integrated computer systems that address the critical needs of industries such as defense, test and measurement and financial trading.

Trenton Systems board level manufacturing facilities are located in Utica, New York, and the system integration, sales and engineering teams are located at the Trenton headquarters in Gainesville, Georgia.

Trenton delivered some of the first single board computers with advanced dual-processor architectures. They are also one of the founding member companies of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group® (PICMG®), and played a key leadership role with regard to writing and publishing industry standards such as PICMG 1.0 and PICMG 1.3.

The financial trading industry is an exciting, fast moving environment, which requires high performance products, expandability and long-life cycles – not to mention enclosure customisations that satisfy environmental variables!
Perfect then, that Trenton offer exactly that!

There are some significant advantages to choosing a Trenton Systems Single Board Computer, Backplane or Embedded Motherboard -

• Customer-driven computing solutions satisfy the most demanding requirements
• Board-level products designed, manufactured and supported in the United States
• Total BIOS control allows modifications that support complex integrated systems
• Backplane designs allow unique ISA, PCI, PCI Express 1.0 and 2.0 configurations
• Five-year factory warranty on all SBCs, backplanes & embedded motherboards
• Board-level products utilize long-life components for 7+ year product availability
• Manufacturing and computer integration facilities are ISO 9001:2008 Certified

For more information on the benefits of using a Trenton Systems product in your application, please call the sales team on +44 1672 511166, or email us! We look forward to hearing from you.

Countdown to DSEi 2013. And Christmas.

90 days until Christmas.
   ...142 days until Valentine's Day.
      ...... 350 days until DSEi 2013!!


 
Yes indeed! 
Its time to get our thinking caps on again, and come up with some ideas on how to make our week more successful than ever before.

DSEi 2011 was a great exhibition for Sarsen Technology; we spoke to loads of new people about our broad range of embedded hardware, and came away with lots of follow up to do, with new opportunities and projects to investigate. It was also a great way for us to show off our new branding..

This time, with our new logos and colour scheme in place, it will be even more focussed on the products, with more demonstration units than ever before, and plenty of experts on hand from our manufacturers to help us answer any questions you might have. We'll be showcasing single board computers, FPGA technology, digital signal processing, data acquisition and high-speed data recording COTS technology, as well as integrated rugged ATR chassis systems and industrial 19" rackmount embedded computing systems.


This year our manufacturers have released many new products, with even more scheduled for production before Christmas. DSEi is a great opportunity to come and see all the new designs and technologies from the defence and security industry's brightest bods. 

Last year we ran a competition to win an iPad.... Who knows what you could win at DSEi 2013!?

 

Friday 13th. Unlucky for some?

Paraskevidekatriaphobia, or the morbid, irrational fear of Friday 13th, affects as many as 21 million people across the world. Fortunately the fear of a date, and it's lucky or unlucky effect, doesn't affect educated, sophisticated business professionals.
. . . . . . Or does it?

Not at Sarsen Technology! Friday 13th July is the day that culminates a great week for the team. And there's not a black cat in sight!

This week we have had the pleasure of hosting Dwight Justice - VP Sales at Trenton Technology. We have taken him all over the country, talking to customers about the fantastic Trenton product range. We've spoken to a range of markets, including Communications, Displays, High Speed Finance and Military. Trenton have released some brand new products, check them out here - Newsletter.


It's the Marlborough Jazz Festival this weekend. It kicks off tonight with performances from the fantastically named The Filthy Six, and Brewin Dolphin Newcomer nominee the Jessica Mary York Quintet. Saturday sees performances from a Sarsen Technology favourite Eduardo Niebla Trio, and The Jive Aces, fresh from the finals of Britains Got Talent. You can buy tickets here - Tickets

With another full week of appointments coming up, we are all looking forward to a well deserved rest this weekend.


Have a good one!
 

High Performance Computing Systems for UAVs

In recent years Sarsen Technology has successfully delivered a number of 19" rackmount high-performance computer systems for the flight control and mission analysis of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) projects. At the heart of these systems are Trenton Technology PICMG 1.3 embedded System Host Boards (SHBs) and PICMG 1.3 backplanes designed for the latest Intel multi-core processors.

New 19" Rackmount Computer website launched by Trenton Technology

Trenton Systems launch their new Rackmount Computer systems web site featuring 2U, 4U, 5U, 6U, MicroTCA and custom solutions: Trenton Systems