I-Bus Corp. announces today the introduction of the first Continuon(tm) Blades, supporting dual Low Power Intel® Pentium III processors.

The IBC2801 and IBC2802 are fully CPSB PICMG 2.16 compatible to support Ethernet switched fabric backplane architectures. With the additional compatibility of PICMG 2.1 full hot-swap and PICMG 2.9 full IPMI system management, the IBC 280x are a powerful, scalable, open architecture building block in high-reliability and high-availability CompactPCI-based server blade systems from I-Bus.

Features

The IBC 280x support Dual Low Power Embedded Intel Pentium III processors, operating at up to 933MHz. Program and data storage needs are met with support for up to 2 Gbytes of DDR SDRAM as well as 256+ Mbytes of CompactFlash or a 1 Gbyte IBM Microdrive, and a 1.8" IDE hard drive up to 20GB on board. Also supported is the full set of standard PC peripherals including Ultra ATA/100, 1.44 Mbyte floppy, USB, RS-232 serial ports, parallel port, mouse and keyboard.

IBC2801 additional features include Ultra 160 SCSI with rear I/O, dual 10/100BaseTX Ethernet, 32-bit PMC expansion and on-board AGP Video.

IBC2802 additional IDE hard drive may be installed on the IBC 2703 rear I/O transition module to provide total disk storage capacity up to 40 GB per blade. Additional features include dual 1000BaseT Ethernet, dual 10/100 BaseTX Ethernet, 32-bit PMC expansion with rear I/O and on-board AGP Video.

Benefits

A comprehensive design of the overall single board computer through the use of a from-the-ground-up approach, including the high availability power requirements, is a fundamentally important aspect of creating a robust single board computer that can provide continue availability even during power interruptions.