Tyan Computer today officially introduced the Typhoon T-600 series, a new incarnation of the company's "personal supercomputer" concept. With support of up to 10 quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 processors (previously known as Clovertown), Typhoon machines will be able to deliver a peak performance of over 250 GFLOPS ("gigaflops," or billions of floating-point operations per second), according to the company.
The company said it will produce up to 10 Typhoon T-600 samples this year, mainly to be used for testing, certification and demonstration purposes. Tyan aims to begin commercial shipments of Typhoon T-600 systems in January 2007, with prices estimated to start below US$15,000, the company pointed out. Typhoon T-600 systems, in the initial stage, will be all manufactured in Taiwan by an unnamed partner, the company noted.
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), according to Tyan.
Other key features of the Typhoon T-600 series include an integrated KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switch, three 600W power supplies supplied by Taiwan-based Zippy Technology, up to seven SATA HDDs (three associated with the head node, which provides optional RAID support, and one for each of the remaining nodes), with Hitachi and Seagate the primary HDD suppliers, and up to 60GB of DDR2 memory in the form of fully-buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs).
This week, Tyan is showcasing the Typhoon T-600 series at the SC2006 conference in Tampa, Florida.
Using new quad-core Intel Xeon processors, Tyan's Typhoon machines are now able to deliver a peak performance of over 250 GFLOPS, according to the company
Photo: Vyacheslav Sobolev, DigiTimes.com, November 2006
Article edited by Michael McManus
