Dual Xeon 5100/5300 dual core or 5400 dual quad core

Up to 24GB of DDR2 ECC memory, six memory SIMMs

23” 1920 x 1200 LCD

250nits min luminance, 170°/170° viewing angle, 8ms switching speed, contrast ratio 800:1, 16.7M colors with 72% color saturation with DVI-D interface. 1920 X 1200, single or dual (over and under) display configurations.

Choice of nVidia FX1700, FX3700, FX4600 and FX4600SDI, occupies PCIe x16 slot

(2)Gbit Ethernet RJ-45, (4)USB2.0, (1)Com RS-232, audio, mic, line in, line out, PS2 keyboard and mouse ports, (4) SATA controller ports for non-RAID drives.

PCIe 3ware® 9650SE-8LPML, RAID controller. Supports high performance RAID. Optional 16 channel raid supports TeraPac®3 HD expansion chassis.

1 PCI 32bit-33Mhz (second slot available if single slot graphics is used), 2 PCI-X 133MHz

HDPac™8 magazine allows removal of all HD without tools in <10Sec. Optionaly any combination of 2 and 4 HDPac™ magzines can be used. Individual drives replacable without removing other HD. All drives hot plug.

Choice of 9 SATA hard drives, 160GB, 320GB, 500GB, 750GB and 1TB 7200rpm SATA removable HD

650Watt 90-264VAC 50/60Hz 115VAC@400Hz

Windows XP SP2, Windows XP 64bit, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2003 Ent.Linux - Redhat 9.0, Redhat AS 3.0, SuSE 9.0

26”W x 16.5”H x 12”D

26”W x 16.5”H x 10”D

0-50°C operating 10-90% relative humidity non-condensing, exceeds Mil Std 810F Hot Operating Temperature cycle test, -20 to 70°C non operating

FCC Class A, CE

Custom Pelican® 1630 water-tight roller case stores keyboard, mouse and cords

100 lbs. (without drives), secondary Pelican® with hard drives weighs 20 lbs.

75 lbs.

MaxPac® XL for Military Applications.
The MaxPac XL has been designed from the ground up as a COTs product which meets the needs of high-demand military applications. Features include:

• Mil Std 810F HOT temperature operations. Able to continuously run at temperatures between 0 - 50°C.
• Meets the demands of small particle dust and dirt environment, such as the Iraq desert, through the use of MaxVision’s Baghdad Air Filtration system.
• Survive rougher than usual handling because of our Box-in-Box shock and vibration isolation system.
• Meets the extreme needs of non-operational handling and environments with custom transit cases.
• All 9 hard drives can be removed in less than 30 seconds and transported in a separate small transit case.
• Dual redundant double layer DVD Burners (8.5GB). Each can be replaced in 30 seconds without the need for special tools or opening the MaxPac because optical drives have a higher than normal failure rate in high dust and dirt military field environments.
• Optional integrated UPS backup system provides guaranteed backup power for up to 10 minutes and adds only 5 pounds to the weight of the unit, including batteries (check for availability)
• Options for operation from 28VDC power sources.
• Expansion of removable HDPac8 hard drive magazines to support total storage of up to 32TB from a single MaxPac XL by using up to three TeraPac3 modular mass storage expansion systems. This also allows HDPac8 to HDPac8 copies at up to 300MB/Sec.
• The highest performance graphics cards available have been integrated to function over the full temperature range, such as the nVidia Quadro.
• Designed for easy field service. Most users can be trained to perform most maintenance on their own in remote field locations. Complete spares and tool kits are available for this purpose. Comprehensive service manuals are included. Training is available either at MaxVision’s headquarters near Huntsville, Alabama or, if enough equipment is available, at the customer’s site.
• The MaxPac XL is the highest performance portable/deployable computer workstation/server available. Features four 64bit processors.
• MaxVision provides custom design and manufacturing services to meet the precise needs of particular military applications. “MaxVision makes the exception the rule.”
• MaxVision provides precise revision control. Every serial number and every part number and revision of every major component of MaxVision products are recorded in MaxVision’s service and manufacturing database and a report is provided to the customer for every unit. At the customer’s request, no changes are made to the configuration or production processes without approval from the customer.

MaxVision’s MaxPac products have been sold to nearly every branch of the military in the United States including the U.S. Marines, U.S. Army, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Office of Naval Intelligence, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and other major defense contractors. They have seen action in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, MaxPac products are in use by the defense departments of Australia, Canada and Germany.

MaxPac® XL Class for Digital Film and HD Broadcast Applications.
Digital Film Applications.

Today most media produced for the cinema is recorded on 35mm photographic movie film at 24 frames per second. Video dailies concurrently taken and synchronized to the film are used to preview and select film footage which is then scanned at 2K or higher resolution at the expense of several dollars per frame and then transferred to a Digital Intermediate editing workstation. These specialized workstations are optimized for high bandwidth disk storage, at least one high resolution HD display, and lots of horsepower in the form of multiple general purpose CPUs and specialized GPUs to perform complex color space transformations and non-linear editing. This is all done in an uncompressed format. Completed Digital Intermediate frames are then combined with special effects and rendered to a film recorder where 35mm film is mastered and produced for duplication and distribution as feature film or documentary.
The first paradigms for doing direct digital video capture for the cinema used compressed digital tape to record directly from the camera in a 4:2:2 format which left much of the color information recorded at a less than required resolution. Tape is not fast enough to provide uncompressed 4:4:4 full-fidelity recording. Later, striped disk arrays were used to record full resolution uncompressed video into dedicated racks of computer equipment. This was later packaged into appliances some called DFRs (Digital Film Records) or DDRs (Digital Disk Recorders), some of which are packaged into hard disk magazines which hold only 30 minutes or so of uncompressed digital film. These magazines are physically moved between the recorder next to the camera to a remote Digital Intermediate computer workstation mimicking the digitized film workflow using a film scanner. To date, DFRs have no redundancy and are not archive quality and are used strictly for shoots during the day and then recorded to tape or another system in the evening. Digital tape is still used as the backup media of choice, but data is transferred substantially slower than in real time recording.
The MaxPac8230XL shortcuts the workflow and eliminates traditional DFR devices. The MaxPac8230XL is a complete end-to-end digital portable work center platform allowing the direct capture of HD or 2K SDI dual link 444 video onto a huge 4TB RAID 5 hard disk array by using AJA or Bluefish capture cards and streaming up to 4 hours and 50 minutes of compressed imagery onto a single HDPac8™ removable hard disk array providing most directors enough for an entire day’s filming. Because the full resolution data is right there on the workstation, review of the shooting can be done on the spot or in the evening reviews. Products like Assimilate’s SCRATCH can be used to review through 3D LUT’s on the spot and later color grade and edit in real time. NLE editing and special effects can also be added. Because the MaxPac8230XL1 is a no compromise four CPU 64bit Xeon machine, this is one of the most powerful digital editing and special effects workstations on the market, portable or not. The MaxPac8230XL1 is there to run ANY of the standard PC compatible NLE tools on the market.
Because the HDPac8™ modules are so reasonably priced with 8TB costing $8K, you can afford to use as many as you like. Imagine 20 hours of uncompressed HD 24P 30 bit DPX files fitting on as few as 4 HDPac8™ modules. Now understand that because these are recorded in RAID 5, a single disk drive failure of the 8 drives in the HDPac8™ will not cause loss of data, making this concept far more than intermediate storage; rather, it is permanent secure storage protected for the entire production of the project. Months later you can decide what to archive and reuse the HDPac8™. Also imagine that, with the use of the TeraPac3, you can have as many as 4 of these HDPac8™ modules connected on line at the MaxPac at the same time. Imagine what that will do for your productivity!
Regardless of whether your end product is film, digital cinema or broadcast, the MaxPac8230XL1 is the perfect complete computer hardware platform for capture, review, editing and final output. We see the MaxPac8230XL1 as the perfect workhorse for the independent film maker as well as early major digital film adopters.

Digital Broadcast Applications.
The bandwidth demands of HD digital productions for broadcast are, of course, less than those for the cinema. Broadcast, by its nature, is bandwidth limited and so there are obvious video compression compromises which are completely allowable. For example the use of SDI 4:2:2 single link from the camera to the recorder provides the best quality needed for excellent broadcast productions.
The MaxPac8230XL has the resources required to record two cameras simultaneously on two HDPac4™ hard drive modules even when using the 1242 Mbits/Sec requirements of 29.97Hz 10 bit 4:2:2. Amazingly, this can be done using RAID5 redundancy for as long as 2 hours of continuous recording on each of two cameras running simultaneously. Each camera is recorded on its own HDPac4™ RAID 5 four drive magazine. Two HDPac4™ magazines can be installed into the MaxPac9200 in the place of the HDPac8™ magazine used for Digital Film.
The user has a choice of either one or two 24” 1920 x 1200 LCD monitors driven from one of a number of nVidia Quadro cards. Popular single link SDI capture cards include the AJA LH. Two of these are required for the connection to two cameras. In this configuration, two 4 channel raid controllers are required.