Tyan introduces the Typhoon PSC personal Super Computer
Tyan Computer, a specialist high-end motherboard and system maker, has introduced the Typhoon PSC personal supercomputer range, delivering supercomputer power in a mobile, desk-side unit. Typhoon models can accommodate up to eight processors and 64GB of memory, delivering up to 70 Gigaflops performance in a unit no bigger than two desktop PCs, according to Tyan. It was only a matter of time, but someone finally did it!
The company said two models are available immediately, based on AMD Opteron 200 series processors or Pentium D processors. Each is configured as four cluster nodes with two processors each. The AMD model accommodates up to 64GB of DDR400/333 registered memory, with the Intel model taking up to 32GB of DDR2-667/533 unbuffered memory. There are eight Gigabit Ethernet ports and capacity for four Serial ATA HDD devices. Tyan is developing further Typhoon PSC models based on the Pentium 4 and the recently-announced Intel Xeon 5100 series processors (Woodcrest), with high performance FBD registered memory. Availability is expected at the end of the third quarter of 2006. The Typhoon PSC supports Linux and Microsoft’s Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. In addition, multiple Typhoon PSC systems can be daisy-chained to form a super cluster.
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