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With a history spanning 30 years and encompassing all phases of
the design and manufacture of Single Board Computers, GMS has established itself
as an innovator in embedded system technology. With open-standard expertise in
SBCs for VMEbus (VME), CompactPCI (CPCI) bus and custom form factors, GMS has
positioned itself on the cutting edge with introductions in mezzanine boards,
CPU carriers and, most recently, conduction-cooled products. While the company
supplies an extensive line of standard SBCs, the focus is on custom and
semi-custom products. With client service paramount, GMS acts as an extension of
the customer’s engineering department – then follows through by
bringing value to all phases of a project, from development to production and
field support. Based on its extensive experience in the industry, GMS’s
reputation is one for delivering the highest performance at the lowest possible
cost, while maintaining highest-quality standards.
- editor's comments:- March 2009 - GMS offers flash SSDs in cPCI,
PMC and VME form factors to support its families of rugged SBCs. The SSD
products are conversion modules which house standard COTS
2.5" SSDs (for
example) rather than proprietary SSD designs.
In the early
1990s - GMS was listed in another publication of mine - called the
SPARC Product Directory.
In those days GMS manufactured 6U VMEbus compatible SPARC SBCs using (at
various times) microSPARC, TurboSPARC or SuperSPARC processors. These SPARC SBCs
ran either Solaris or Wind-River's VxWorks |
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| SPARC History |
Spellabyte and
Terrorbyte loved sitting around
the campfire, discussing the good old days
of
SPARC computing. | |
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Can You
Trust Flash SSD Specs & Benchmarks? |
| Sadly no! - Many
published benchmarks for flash SSD are about as reliable as bank
valuations of Collateralized Loan Obligations (just before the onset of the
Credit Crunch). |
There are many
intrinsic technical reasons why you can't believe most published benchmarks
for flash SSDs (whether done by magazines or vendors) and why
even the tests you carefully do yourself don't give reliable results
which correlate with how the SSD will perform in real-life
applications.
We warned you of it this problem here
on StorageSearch.com - and now other publications and vendors are starting
to take it seriously too. ...read
the article | |
