Luncheon Panel Discussion

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

Using OpenVPX to Put Next-Gen Compute Architectures Into Action While Avoiding Technology Risk

Moderator: Jeff Child, Editor in Chief, COTS Journal

As the building blocks for OpenVPX come together, system designers have what they need to craft new VPX payload and switch modules, backplane topologies and chassis products. This is giving Defense primes and suppliers the tools they need to build interoperable computing and comms platforms. There's long been a conflict between military system developers' hunger for the latest and greatest computing technologies versus their desire to avoid risks inherent in banking on new approaches. The rigorous detail of the OpenVPX spec helps mitigate those risks.

This panel discussion will explore the integration challenges facing today's complex systems and examines the ways in which OpenVPX enables next-gen compute technologies-from memory interfaces to network protocols to high-speed storage and graphics interfaces to switched fabric-based interconnects- to roll smoothly into an interoperable, rugged, slot-card system architecture. The expert panel will share their insights and perspectives on putting OpenVPX into action and discuss implications of OpenVPX for compute-intensive military programs of today and tomorrow.

Expert Panelists:

Ron Huizen, Vice President - Technology  
...BittWare

Pete Jha, Senior Software Engineer
...Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing Controls

Robert Sullivan, Vice President, Corp. Director of Technology  
...Hybricon

Joe Eicher, Director of Mil-Aero-Gov't Eastern No. America Region
...Kontron America

Greg Tiedemann, Director - Product Line Management  
...Mercury Computer Systems

Rodger Hosking, Vice President and Co-founder
...Pentek