The industrial computer industry is a big industry, and industrial control products can be used in various occasions, and industrial computers are common. Many people will ask what is an industrial computer. In fact, an industrial computer is a computer. Simply put, there are three types of computers, personal PCs, servers, and industrial computers. Here is a brief introduction to what is an industrial computer? Industrial personal computer is also called industrial control computer, or both industrial computer and industrial computer. The full name is Industrial Personal Computer, or IPC for short.
The industrial computer is a professional computer designed for industrial production control, which is used to monitor and control the machinery and equipment, production process, data parameters, etc. in the industrial production process. Therefore, compared with personal PCs and servers, the working environment of industrial computers is very harsh, and the requirements for data security are very high. In order to make the machine work better, very special treatments such as reinforcement, dust-proof, moisture-proof, anti-corrosion, and anti-radiation are usually carried out that are different from ordinary computers. At the same time, industrial computers have very high requirements for extended functions, and industrial computers often need to be individually customized to meet the requirements of specific external devices.
In short, what is an industrial computer? An industrial computer is a special kind of computer, which has some characteristics compared with ordinary personal computers:
1. In order to make the machine have high anti-magnetic, dust-proof and shock-proof capabilities, the chassis of the industrial computer usually adopts a steel structure.
2. A common chassis will have a dedicated backplane with PCI and ISA slots on it.
3. There is a special power supply in the chassis, which must have very strong anti-interference ability.
4. It is required to have the ability to work continuously for a long time, possibly for several months and a whole year.
5. Standard chassis that are easy to install are usually used (such as 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U, 4U is more common)
PS: 1. 1U is 4.445cm. U is a unit that represents the external size of the server, and is an abbreviation for unit. The detailed size is determined by the Electronic Industries Association (EIA), an industry group.
2. The so-called "1U PC server" is a product with a shape that meets the EIA specification and a thickness of 4.445cm. Products designed to fit into a 19-inch rack are generally referred to as rack servers.
3. The industrial computer is a high-availability and high-density low-cost server platform, which is specially designed for special application industries and high-density computer environments. They can start their own operating systems through the local hard disk, such as Windows/NT/2000/2003, Linux, Solaris, etc., similar to each individual server. In this mode, each motherboard runs its own system, serving different user groups specified, and is not related to each other. However, we can still use the system software to aggregate these motherboards into a server cluster.
