Tyan invokes server Typhoon

SERVER SPECIALIST Tyan introduced the Typhoon machine here in Taipei, and said the introduction is the arrival of the personal supercomputer (PSC).

The Typhoon PSC for Intel chips will sample early in the third quarter and be in mass production by the end of this year, said Symon Chang, the CEO of Tyan.

It will come in two flavours - the BS5372 with one S5372 mobo as the head node and three S5372 boards as the computer nodes, using up to eight dual core Xeons supporting up to 64GB of FBD memory.

The B5191 uses for S5191 boars supporting up to four Intel Pentium D single core chips and a max of 32GB of DDR2 memory. It has eight Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The BS5372 uses the Blackford VS MCH north bridge, and the ESB2 south bridge, with eight USB 2 ports, XGI XG20 PCI graphics controller, and up to four S-ATA drives.

The B5191 has XGI Volari Z7 graphics, and uses the Intel 3000 (Mukilteo 2) MCH and the ICH 7-R for the south bridge.

Prices start at $10,000.