The difference between industrial computer and workstation
Industrial Personal Computer (IPC) is an industrial control computer, which is a general term for tools that use a bus structure to detect and control the production process, electromechanical equipment, and process equipment. Industrial personal computers have important computer attributes and characteristics, such as computer CPU, hard disk, memory, peripherals and interfaces, as well as operating systems, control networks and protocols, computing power, and friendly human-machine interface. The products and technologies of the industrial control industry are very special and belong to intermediate products, which provide reliable, embedded and intelligent industrial computers for other industries.
Main features of industrial computer
In layman's terms, industrial computer is a computer specially designed for industrial sites, and industrial sites generally have strong vibration, a lot of dust, and high electromagnetic field force interference. Usually no rest. Therefore, the industrial computer must have the following characteristics compared with ordinary computers:
1. The chassis adopts steel structure, which has high anti-magnetic, dust-proof and shock-proof ability.
2. There is a special bottom plate in the chassis, and there are PCI and ISA slots on the bottom plate.
3. There is a special power supply in the chassis, and the power supply has strong anti-interference ability.
4. The ability to work continuously for a long time is required.
5. Generally use a standard chassis that is easy to install (4U standard chassis is more common).
Note: Except for the above features, the rest are basically the same. In addition, due to the above professional characteristics, the price of industrial computers of the same level is more expensive than that of ordinary computers, but generally not much difference.
Although the industrial computer has unique advantages compared with ordinary commercial computers, its disadvantage is also very obvious - poor data processing capability, as follows:
1. The configuration hard disk capacity is small.
2. Data security is low.
3, the storage selectivity is small.
4, the price is higher.
A workstation is a high-end general-purpose microcomputer. It is for single-user use and provides more powerful performance than personal computers, especially in terms of graphics processing power, task parallelism. Usually equipped with high-resolution large-screen, multi-screen display and large-capacity internal memory and external memory, and a computer with extremely strong information and high-performance graphics and image processing functions. In addition, a terminal connected to a server may also be referred to as a workstation.
Features
An information processing system composed of a computer, corresponding external equipment and a complete set of application software packages. It can complete specific tasks assigned by users, and is an effective way to promote the popularization of computers. Workstations should have powerful data processing capabilities, an intuitive user interface that is convenient for man-machine exchange of information, and can be connected to computer networks to exchange information and share resources in a wider range. Workstations provide professional workers with comprehensive help in programming, computing, document writing, archiving, and communication. Common workstations include computer-aided design (CAD) workstations (or engineering workstations), office automation (OA) workstations, and image processing workstations. Workstations for different tasks have different hardware and software configurations.
For example, the typical hardware configuration of a small CAD workstation is: ordinary computer, CRT terminal with function keys, light pen, plane plotter, digitizer, printer, etc. The software configuration is: operating system, compiler, corresponding database and database management system, two-dimensional and three-dimensional drawing software, and a complete set of calculation and analysis software packages. It can complete various mechanical and electrical design tasks submitted by users.
The main hardware configurations of OA workstations are: ordinary computers, office terminal equipment (such as teletypewriters, interactive terminals, fax machines, laser printers, intelligent copiers, etc.), communication facilities (such as local area networks), program-controlled switches, public data network, Integrated Services Digital Network, etc.). The software is configured as: operating system, compiler, various service programs, communication software, database management system, e-mail, word processing software, form processing software, various editing software and software packages for specialized business activities, such as personnel management, financial Management, administrative affairs management and other software, and equipped with the corresponding database. The task of the OA workstation is to complete the processing of various office information.
The main hardware configuration of the image processing workstation is: a computer, generally including a graphics card with super performance (due to the development of CUDA parallel programming); image digitizing equipment (including electronic, optical or electromechanical scanning equipment, digitizers), Image output device, interactive image terminal. In addition to general system software, software configuration includes a complete set of image processing software packages. It can complete various image processing tasks proposed by users. More and more computer manufacturers are producing and selling various workstations.
