Types Of Units; Documentation Conventions - Matrox Supersight Installation And Hardware Reference

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Naming convention

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. There is an 8-connector version
and a 13-connector version of the unit.
Matrox Supersight units come pre-installed with a backplane, one Matrox
Supersight SHB-Q170 with memory modules, Microsoft Windows 7 for
Embedded Systems 64-bit, a mass storage device, a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive,
a power supply, and three cooling fans; these are encased within a metal chassis.

Documentation conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual.
A node consists of one Matrox Supersight SHB-Q170, along with any additional
boards that are connected to the SHB through the backplane, such as GPU boards,
boards with FPGAs, frame grabber boards, and processing boards.
This manual refers to both Matrox Supersight e2 and Matrox Supersight Solo
units with Matrox Supersight SHB-Q170, all as Matrox Supersight. When
necessary, their full names are used.
This manual also refers to Matrox Supersight SHB-Q170 as an SHB (system Host
board).
The 13-connector version of Matrox Supersight Solo has two PCIe switches
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on its backplane to control the connection to the add-on boards. Although,
the second PCIe switch has up to x8 and up x16 lanes, it reaches a bandwidth
bottleneck when connecting to the SHB because the second PCIe interface of
the SHB is x4.
2. Note that in some previous versions of this manual, a node was referred to as a
cluster.
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