NextComputing rolled-out a new battery powered portable workstation

Generally, industries such as military intelligence, oil and gas exploration, digital video production and network testing require high-performance hardware featuring full-powered CPUs, high-end 3D graphics, fast RAID storage, and PCI (News - Alert) expansion slots for their demanding and mission-critical applications. Typically, when in the field, these applications are developed using large, non-mobile systems or is scaled down to run on a laptop for mobility due to various constraints, thereby making the task difficult.
In an effort to provide such industries with a complete mobile power computing solution, NextComputing – a provider of portable workstations and dense, small-footprint servers – has rolled-out a new battery powered portable workstation,Radius EX-B.
Based on NextComputing’s (News - Alert) Radius EX all-in-one portable workstation, the new Radius EX-B is the latest addition to the company’s Radius series of mobile computers. Featuring a briefcase-like design, it is the company’s first portable system to feature an integrated battery - for total mobility. This enables the workstation to run for more than two hours on battery.
As a provider of extreme-performance portables and dense streaming rack-mount computers, NextComputing has built the new Radius EX-B mobile computer as a compact, all-in-one package that is easy to transport and set up. Apart from featuring true workstation and server performance, it features a 320W power supply with removable Lithium-ion battery pack and a built-in 17-inch widescreen, high-resolution (1920x1200) LCD monitor.
Built on workstation-class 2nd generation Intel (News - Alert) Core i7 Quad-Core processor or Intel Xeon E3-1200 series processor, the new Radius EX-B mobile computer has been provided with up to 32GB DDR3 memory using 8GB DIMMs; four full-length, full-height PCI Express and PCI expansion slots; integrated Intel HD Graphics or discrete professional graphics solutions from NVIDIA and AMD (News - Alert); and up to 6 terabytes (TB) of fixed or removable storage with multiple RAID options.
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Showcasing a brief-case design, the new EX-B mobile computer is not only compact but also features an all-in-one chassis with comfortable leather handle and a convenient carrying case. An optional rolling case with telescoping handle or rugged MIL-STD-810F certified hard case is also provided along with the product.
According to NextComputing, the Radius EX-B can run completely un-tethered, without being plugged into a power source, for over two hours. Apart from enabling users to transport it from room to room within a facility without powering down, it can keep the unit running continuously in the event of a power failure. In addition, it can run the system in a remote environment where power is intermittent or unreliable such as military base station or trailer.
“Customers across many markets depend on our portable workstations and servers because they are the most flexible and capable mobile systems available, while also being the smallest and lightest,” said Bob Labadini, president and CTO of NextComputing, in a statement. “Because they are powerful, enterprise-class computers, these systems have traditionally required external power, usually from a wall outlet or a DC source like a vehicle. The Radius EX-B changes all this. Our customers now have a fully mobile, all-in-one workstation, able to run their applications from literally anywhere.”


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How to improve the battery monitoring techniques?

Dealing with Redundancy
There are three ways of dealing with the potential for battery failure in data centers (and any other operation that needs an assured supply). Redundancy, planned maintenance and monitoring.

Redundancy in a system with 240 single points of failure isn't a cheap option, you can't switch out a failed cell or failed battery quick enough when the utility company supply fails; to have an N+1 system you need a complete set of batteries in parallel with the first, and a second UPS. Then how are you going to calculate the risk of a failure somewhere in that second, parallel string?

Many data centers rely on planned maintenance and asset management. Planned maintenance usually takes the form of manually testing eachToshiba pa3356u-3brs Battery,Toshiba pa3285u-3brs Battery every quarter and replacing any whose performance is significantly below the rest. The asset management part is simply talking to the supplier about the batteries, the operating conditions, how often the UPS has called on them, then taking an educated guess on when is good time to replace them all.

Batteries can fail suddenly, even one day after a quarterly test you cannot be sure they are all working properly. Increasing the testing frequency might help a little but it's a time consuming job (therefore expensive) and the testing current fed into the batteries to carry out the tests can actually have the effect of reducing their life. Asset management isn't optimal either; in order to reduce the likelihood of failure, most operations will err on the side of caution and replace costly batteries that could have remained in place a lot longer.

Predicting Failure
Stationary fixed battery monitoring systems carry out much more frequent checking, often checking more parameters than a technician with a hand-held monitor. Crucially they generate enough data to show trends in performance enabling data center staff to predict when a battery will fail and arrange to replace it in time. Using data collected on an entire string of batteries over an extended period, managers are able to make a rational decision about asset management, leaving a string in place as long as it remains economic to do so, but not so long that replacing individual batteries becomes a weekly event.

Alber and Btech are battery monitoring system providers who have been in this market for many years. Alber's system is built around a central device that is connected to the battery stack/cabinet with a custom-made wiring harness. Btech's is somewhat similar, but their latest models are more modular in design.

Cellwatch, IntelliBatt and Powershield all take a more modular approach with small data collection modules (DCM) on or near each battery. A Cellwatch DCM has seven colour-coded connections and is typically used to monitor four batteries. Each Powershield module monitors two batteries. Intellibatt has taken this approach even further and provides individual modules for each battery.

Obviously the first two require fewer modules, but the cost savings are not great since each module is more complex and therefore more expensive and the connections are more complicated. Intellibatt modules have two wires, coded red and black, to connect to the positive and negative terminals on the battery. In most cases data centers are able to fit their own Intellibatt system to an existing battery stack. Modules are 'daisy chained' with CAT5 cables to a data collection server which maybe in the battery rack, or a standard server rack elsewhere in the building.

Cellwatch and Powershield systems are able to take measurements on every Sony vgp-bps2 Battery,Sony vgp-bps2b Batteries every day, Intellibat up to four times per day. This high frequency of testing is made possible by improved digital processing techniques which enable ohmic measurement of each battery with much reduced current, therefore having little or no impact on battery life. Alber's system uses much higher test current and only performs tests once per month, Btech's system uses a lower current and tests weekly.

Using the Data
Collecting data is pointless unless you have a method of using it. Collecting data daily, then checking it once a quarter, is no better than the old quarterly inspection regime. Of course no-one wants to wade through performance stats on dozens of batteries everyday. It makes much more sense to use some basic data processing software on the server to graph performance and show trends.

Even then, someone has to look at it, and technicians with a hundred of other tasks might easily overlook something so routine and not immediately critical. To counter this, DPMC offers a remote monitoring service. Its server is able to collect data not only from Intellibatt but from all the other major systems and relay it to its offices in California. Once there it is continuously monitored to detect errors and once a week a trending report is forwarded to the data center management team. DPMC currently monitors more than a million batteries world wide.

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How to improve the battery monitoring techniques?

Dealing with Redundancy
There are three ways of dealing with the potential for battery failure in data centers (and any other operation that needs an assured supply). Redundancy, planned maintenance and monitoring.

Redundancy in a system with 240 single points of failure isn't a cheap option, you can't switch out a failed cell or failed battery quick enough when the utility company supply fails; to have an N+1 system you need a complete set of batteries in parallel with the first, and a second UPS. Then how are you going to calculate the risk of a failure somewhere in that second, parallel string?

Many data centers rely on planned maintenance and asset management. Planned maintenance usually takes the form of manually testing eachToshiba pa3356u-3brs Battery,Toshiba pa3285u-3brs Battery every quarter and replacing any whose performance is significantly below the rest. The asset management part is simply talking to the supplier about the batteries, the operating conditions, how often the UPS has called on them, then taking an educated guess on when is good time to replace them all.

Batteries can fail suddenly, even one day after a quarterly test you cannot be sure they are all working properly. Increasing the testing frequency might help a little but it's a time consuming job (therefore expensive) and the testing current fed into the batteries to carry out the tests can actually have the effect of reducing their life. Asset management isn't optimal either; in order to reduce the likelihood of failure, most operations will err on the side of caution and replace costly batteries that could have remained in place a lot longer.

Predicting Failure
Stationary fixed battery monitoring systems carry out much more frequent checking, often checking more parameters than a technician with a hand-held monitor. Crucially they generate enough data to show trends in performance enabling data center staff to predict when a battery will fail and arrange to replace it in time. Using data collected on an entire string of batteries over an extended period, managers are able to make a rational decision about asset management, leaving a string in place as long as it remains economic to do so, but not so long that replacing individual batteries becomes a weekly event.

Alber and Btech are battery monitoring system providers who have been in this market for many years. Alber's system is built around a central device that is connected to the battery stack/cabinet with a custom-made wiring harness. Btech's is somewhat similar, but their latest models are more modular in design.

Cellwatch, IntelliBatt and Powershield all take a more modular approach with small data collection modules (DCM) on or near each battery. A Cellwatch DCM has seven colour-coded connections and is typically used to monitor four batteries. Each Powershield module monitors two batteries. Intellibatt has taken this approach even further and provides individual modules for each battery.

Obviously the first two require fewer modules, but the cost savings are not great since each module is more complex and therefore more expensive and the connections are more complicated. Intellibatt modules have two wires, coded red and black, to connect to the positive and negative terminals on the battery. In most cases data centers are able to fit their own Intellibatt system to an existing battery stack. Modules are 'daisy chained' with CAT5 cables to a data collection server which maybe in the battery rack, or a standard server rack elsewhere in the building.

Cellwatch and Powershield systems are able to take measurements on every Sony vgp-bps2 Battery,Sony vgp-bps2b Batteries every day, Intellibat up to four times per day. This high frequency of testing is made possible by improved digital processing techniques which enable ohmic measurement of each battery with much reduced current, therefore having little or no impact on battery life. Alber's system uses much higher test current and only performs tests once per month, Btech's system uses a lower current and tests weekly.

Using the Data
Collecting data is pointless unless you have a method of using it. Collecting data daily, then checking it once a quarter, is no better than the old quarterly inspection regime. Of course no-one wants to wade through performance stats on dozens of batteries everyday. It makes much more sense to use some basic data processing software on the server to graph performance and show trends.

Even then, someone has to look at it, and technicians with a hundred of other tasks might easily overlook something so routine and not immediately critical. To counter this, DPMC offers a remote monitoring service. Its server is able to collect data not only from Intellibatt but from all the other major systems and relay it to its offices in California. Once there it is continuously monitored to detect errors and once a week a trending report is forwarded to the data center management team. DPMC currently monitors more than a million batteries world wide.

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