Tyan Typhoon 600 series reaches 256 gigflops for "personal supercomputing"

Remember that 16-core Tyan Typhoon personal supercomputer we told you about back in March? Yeah, that was before all the dual-core and now quad-core action started flooding the market. Well, we've just laid our eyes on the Typhoon 600 series, which is loaded to the brim with Clovertown chips, reaching 256 gigaflops worth of processing power from a single outlet. Of course, the Typhoon isn't exactly going to crack the Top500 list of supercomputers, but it'll probably work much better than that those decked out quad-core getups we've seen thus far. If you really need that many chips, just be prepared not to flip out when you see the £10,000 ($19,080) pricetag, which works out to about 25,600,000 flops per pound sterling.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 10:17AM]

the girl next to me is still laughing at the word 'gigaflop'

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 1:25PM]

well 'gigaflop' is a funny word :)

[Frankenstein Black Posted Nov 16th 2006 10:32AM]

I was 2nd's away from giving this the big MEH, but that price is actually not bad given some of the new Qcores costing 10k Plus!!

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[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2006 2:41PM]

I actually really like that case - wonder how much just the case is...probably $700+ with those drive cages and what not.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 10:49AM]

I dunno.... When quantum computing classes are going mainstream in universities, such a setup would be more helpful than a stack of schoolbooks.

I don't think it's that expensive. But what does it run? Vista?

- Unomi -

[DBG Posted Nov 16th 2006 11:21AM]

Well, I'm sure it will run Vista once a proper release is... well, released, but for now it gets something that I hadn't heard of yet, "Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003". Also it seems as in the US get a bit of the break from our UK brothers, as the same system is coming to us for only 15,000$. Also to the Sun fellow, this unit supports 64GB of memory... *sigh* I remember buying a top of the line Dell in 1998 that came with 64MB of memory. I guess this would make a great box for virtualization, so it doesn't really matter that it runs off Windows if you can cut out a slice of it for your own *nix joy (I wonder if Apple is ever going to get around to releasing OSX for non-Apple hardware =/).

- Tony R.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 11:04AM]

Considering we paid around 700k for a 16 proc solaris box 2 years ago this is not to bad.

Then again our server does have 32 gigs of memory .....

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 11:17AM]

didn't the last AMD product (mainboard with some GPU stuff on it) produced about 300GFlops(Theorically) for about 2500$ ???

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 11:29AM]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/14/amd-stream-processor-launched-uses-gpu-power-for-general-tasks/
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~114146,00.html

Links were needed I guess.

[Ed T Posted Nov 16th 2006 11:45AM]

I suppose you guys have never heard about China's huge projects to reverse engineer software and firmware used in weapons systems purchased from Russia and Israel? Initially, they used brute force, manual labor to accomplish these IP thefts, but now they are getting tools like this souped-up PC to help them out. All that nuclear weapon simulation code they copped from Sandia Labs requires a "super computer" for execution...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 12:01PM]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't the Cell processor produce 256 gigaflops just by itself?