Overview; Types Of Units - Matrox Supersight Installation And Hardware Reference

10 Chapter 1: Before you begin

Overview

A Matrox Supersight unit is a high-performance computing (HPC) platform that
allows the connection of Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 system Host board(s),
GPU boards (display boards), boards with field-programmable gate arrays
(FPGAs), and frame grabber/processing boards in one chassis. All these boards are
connected to a PCIe switched fabric backplane; allowing Matrox Supersight and
its associated boards to communicate with each other on its own network.
Each Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 in the unit acts as a separate computer with
its own BIOS, operating system, memory, hard disk drives, USB ports, and
network ports. An SHB's access to an auxiliary board (such as a GPU, FPGA, and
frame grabber/processing board) depends on the number of SHBs connected to
the backplane and on the slot in which the SHB board and the auxiliary board
are connected. Each SHB can either be connected to one or more of its own hard
disk drives.

Types of units

There are two types of Matrox Supersight units available. They differ as follows:
• Matrox Supersight e2 can have up to 4 possible SHBs.
• Matrox Supersight Solo can only have 1 SHB. In addition, there is an 8-connector
version and a 13-connector version. Other than the difference in the number of
PCIe connectors, the two variations function identically.