complete computer on a PCI card. looking for more info.

[Evadman]

I remeber seeing complete computers on a PCI card not to long ago. They were mostly 233's and 400 RISC processors, but I remember seeing some socket 370's. there was a name specific to these cards, but I am at a loss as to what that name was. I am trying to find more info because I am going to see about building a rack with a bunch of them. I have a client who is looking for an extramly small solution, and these would be perfect.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

I know what you are talking about...but i don't know the name sorry ... but i do think that you need a mobo with 64-bit PCI to make it run

 

[RossGr]

Those are very common in industrial rack mount computers. We have several in machines that I maintain. I am not currently at work, I'll do some checking tonight, I'll bet I can find you a name.

 

[dbwillis]

are those called Blades?

 

[Soulkeeper]

i've seen some based off the transmeta cores
check transmeta.com

 

[RossGr]

Perhaps these guys will have something to help you.

 

[bolomite]

Evergreen Accelera PCI

 

[Soulkeeper]

what i'm wondering is how the system will use them
wonder if you can crack seti with a few of those
they prob wouldn't support a tualatin celeron they look kinda old
interesting indeed

 

[OverVolt]

very strange, looks like you'll need a server board to run em tho... 64-bit pci or that funky ISA-32bit-pci

 

[RossGr]

This kind of computer generally plugs into a backplane which which communicates on the PCI bus. Also on the bus you will generally find things like specialized imageing cards for vision systems, perhaps a motion control card (Galil for instance), A/D cards, binary control cards and other specialized devices. This type of system forms the heart of modern industrial tooling. These tools may consist of operation software, precision motion tables and a robot of some sort inaddition to specialized equipment to perform a specific task in what may be a multistep process. The cost for such a tool can be as low as $10k up to several million $ depending on the configuration. I maintain this type of tool for a living.

 

[Abhoth]

I've done some work on the 'blade' types... Here's the link
Really a slick deal... in my area they're used in dental offices and such... Just slide in a new blade into the housing, generally in the telco room, and there ya go, new PC! Can mount the housing on the wall in a vertical position, or in a rack type setup. Very nice.

 

[Jamie571]

I've used a few of those with P-233 in a Advantech case for small industrial PC apps. They were made by ssc and distributed by ICP. They are very small and I even over-clocked one for use with Windows 2000.