Tyan Typhoon T-600 your personal supercomputer
Taiwan based Tyan computers have unveiled the Typhoon T-600 which redefines the term personal supercomputer. Powering the monster are 10 quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 processors and up to 60GB of DDR2 memory in the form of fully-buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs). The Typhoon machines will be able to deliver a peak performance of over 250 GFLOPS which is faster than the Playstation 3 cell processor which peaks out at 204 GFLOPS.
Positioned as a personal workstation with supercomputing capabilities, Typhoon solutions consist of clustered systems, with current support reaching five nodes containing two quad-core CPUs each. The solution can run Linux or Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003. For its cluster interconnect technology, new Typhoon machines can use Gigabit Ethernet (through a built-in dual layer-two Gigabit Ethernet network switch fabric) or InfiniBand (through an optional InfiniBand switch),
Other features include integrated KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switch, three 600W power supplies, upto 7 SATA hard drives, etc. Shipments of the Typhoon T-600 will start by January 2007 with prices starting around $ 15,000 I wonder if sales will be allowed in Iraq and North Korea.
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