Tyan Typhoon blows into third generation
CeBIT 2008 Small is big
TYAN WENT SMALL at CeBIT with a lot of sub-1U servers on display. There were also the usual big boxes, but small was definitely big at Tyan this year.
The first one is the Double 1U, two complete boards in a 1U chassis. The board is called the GT28-132935, the barebones is the Transport GT28, take your pick. They each have 2 AMD sockets, room for 16 DIMMs and 2x GigE ports. Not unique, but well done.
Tyan Double 1U server
If you take just one of the GT28 boards and slap it vertically in a chassis, you end up with the FX71 blade server. It has no backplane and can stack 10 of the boards in 4U. If you are going to be doing very dense racks, this seems like a smarter way to go than multiple GT28s.
Tyan FX71 blade chassis
Remember the Typhoon and the Typhoon 2? Well, here is the Typhoon 3, same idea, a little better everything except the name, it is called the Flexblade now. Didn't they learn anything from AMD with their Sledgehammer/Opteron debacle? Sigh.
Tyan third-gen Typhoon
Either way, there are five dual AMD CPU nodes with an additional controller node, and this one has a built in KVM and all sorts of connectivity and manageability options. If you liked the first two, there is more to like here. µ
Comments
A few more bits of data, please.
Could you talk more about the memory architectures? Since AMD sockets are mentioned, I'm guessing that the required DIMMs are either buffered or unbuffered parallel access DDR2. As opposed to FB-DIMM or PA DDR3. Frankly, I think the Inq and the Reg are both missing-out on the opening skirmishes of the memory wars. Processors have become commodity silicon. Memory is the next battlefield.for The Garret
Hi there,You might want to read this, as this is the AMD way to access memory.
It's totally different of the stone age Intel way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Uniform_Memory_Access