Friday, June 16, 2006
Tyan's $10,000 16-Core Personal Supercomputer
Posted by Damion Chaplin in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 07:00 PM
"Taiwan's Tyan today pledged to ship a deskside "personal supercomputer" powered by eight Intel low-voltage 'Woodcrest' Xeon processors and packing up to 48GB of memory in the fourth quarter. But expect to pay at least $10,000 for the wheel-mounted machine, the company said. Named Typhoon - it'll "blow you away", quipped Tyan CEO Symon Change - the 68 x 36 x 32cm system contains four removable motherboard units, each with a pair of dual-core Xeon 5100-series LV CPUs and 12GB of registered 533MHz or 667MHz DDR 2 SDRAM. Each 'node' board can take a single SATA storage devices. The four nodes run co-operatively using Windows or Linux clustering software to deliver "respectable" performance for scientific apps, Chang said. And for business and productivity tools too, it added - the company wants to broaden the machine's appeal beyond boffins and engineers."
OK, so it's a little off-topic (and about a week old), but it's just so durned cool. 8) Maybe someday something like this will allow us to encode a full-length movie in five minutes. Of course, by then we'll be using Uber-Definition DVDs which take up 8.5TB of hard drive space, but what are ya gonna do? :wink:
OK, so it's a little off-topic (and about a week old), but it's just so durned cool. 8) Maybe someday something like this will allow us to encode a full-length movie in five minutes. Of course, by then we'll be using Uber-Definition DVDs which take up 8.5TB of hard drive space, but what are ya gonna do? :wink:
