C6670 Control Cabinet Industrial Server
Description
The C6670 industrial server is a PC-based solution that can be fitted with 12, 24, or 36 processor cores, and its memory can be expanded from 64 GB up to 2 TB. The computing power within the C6670 series can be most effectively used when each individual core is efficiently leveraged with the TwinCAT 3.1 automation software platform from Beckhoff.
Beckhoff's “many-core control” concept, as demonstrated in the C6670 industrial server line, personifies the company’s consistent and long-term philosophy of centralized control with integrated Scientific Automation. This approach means that in addition to a machine’s control functions—PLC, motion, robotics, and CNC—further functions such as advanced measurement technology, condition monitoring, and visualization are all integrated into one powerful software package and executed on one powerful PC-based controller.
With TwinCAT 3.1 it's possible to optimally use all available processor cores by intelligently distributing individual control tasks among them. With the development of the C6670, Beckhoff delivers the benefits of many-core technology to machine control projects. Previously existing limits all but disappear for users’ application ideas, which are freed by a dramatically faster and more powerful machine control platform.
In addition to computationally-intensive control technology, the C6670 can be used in complex applications such as highly articulated robotics and advanced image processing. Designed for control cabinet installation, the server incorporates two Intel Xeon processors—each with 6, 12 or 18 cores—working together on a motherboard with 2 Gigabit Ethernet controllers and a powerful graphics card. Apart from the massive performance levels delivered by up to 2 TB DDR4 RAM, there are 4 PCIe x16 Gen III slots, 1 PCIe Gen III x 8 slot, and 1 PCIe Gen II x 4 slot for multiple interface cards and maximum flexibility.