While the market for market for rugged military servers today is already mature with a multitude of players, changing technologies and requirements today require multi-faceted considerations.
New applications of rugged military servers
● Over the years, many R&D organisations, solution providers and integrators in the defence industry are developing platforms and products for unmanned and autonomous systems, artificial intelligence and analytics. Servers today are expected to perform with much higher computing power while being in a smaller package that consumes lesser power and often being at the edge.
Bridging the advances of commercial performance with military considerations
● In the world of commercial computing, controlled conditions of the datacentre and also gaming environments allow for the latest GPUs and processors to run without consideration of high impact shocks, vibration and wide temperature conditions often faced in the battlefield.
● Defence computer manufacturers need to take into account bringing in the latest technologies to the military while ensuring the product is ruggedised to the required levels meeting required MIL-STDs. This becomes a larger problem when the R&D of today on AI & Analytics is conducted using the latest releases of GPUs and processors to take advantage of high speed computing yet ruggedised computers are lagging far behind.
Windows 11 OS Support
● As we are in a transitional period towards the windows 11 OS, boards will need to support TPM2.0, this is a key consideration for developers and integrators.
Customisable I/Os
● Each project brings to the table unique requirements of inputs and outputs.
● For land vehicles, heavy usage of CAN bus is a common consideration while for rack mounted applications, often the ease of maintenance is required in accessing ports with possible requirements for more serial communications to link to various alarms and other industrial systems.
Power Supply
● Having variants to cover both AC and DC versions of a rugged server ensures it is especially versatile for both land shelter and vehicle applications, where 28VDC is commonly used.
● Meeting Mil-Std 1275 for vehicle power supply and the ability to handle voltage dips for sensitive equipment is a key consideration in server selection.
Ocean Communication’s ruggedised dual GPU Box servers and 19’’ rack mount server adequately solves the challenges highlighted above and even more unique rugged computing challenges specifically for land army and naval projects. Find out more about our rugged computer solutions: https://ocean-comms.com.sg/military-defense/