Tyan's 40 CPU Core Personal Supercomputer -- now shipping

Sure, you probably don't currently have a need for 256 gigaflops of processing power in your home. Rest assured, you will -- just as certain as the day when robots will care for our children and decorate our Christmas trees. So go 'head, raid the education fund and future proof your domicile by picking up a TYANPSC T-650 series computer from Tyan -- "PSC," as in Personal SuperComputer. Prices start at just $20,000 for a 40 CPU Core (10x quad-core Intel Xeons) system configurable with up to 60GB of RAM and a power draw of just 15A. And it's "portable" in the same way a refrigerator is portable: it has wheels. Who knows, maybe you can put those spare cycles to use by solving the traveling salesman problem. Better yet, join Engadget's Folding@Home team for some hardcore protein folding fun.

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[scott @ Mar 22nd 2007 9:59AM]

I would love to take After Effects for a spin on that thing...

Will 'mainstream' OS's work on this or is it all linux like most supercomputers?

[John B @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:07AM]

Gee, can they make it look any more like a Sun E450 server?

And you can sell unused gigaflops to compensate for the massive electrical bills that you will incur. When you need a dedicated electrical circuit for a "personal" computer, you'd better be using that to be more than just a BF2 server! (But what a server it would be.)

[dd @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:25AM]

Finally a machine capable of running Vista as fast as Windows 95 can run on a Pentium 3.

[Kev50027 @ Mar 22nd 2007 1:17PM]

That's wrong..

Vista runs just great on my 2 year old laptop, even faster than XP ran.

XP LOOKS like it's faster because there are so few animations and effects.

[OctaneZ @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:27AM]

Yeah, but think of the memory bottleneck introduced by having the four cores on one socket!

[FrannckyB @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:38AM]

Am I the only one that is pissed off when people get it wrong ?!

10 x quad-core doesn't equal 40 CPUs ?! Even the Source of the article had it right, it equals 40 Cores or still just 10 CPUs.

I've seen Computers stores try to push the same crap to mislead customers and I hate it.

Depending on the ranking on my post I'll see if its all in my head, hehe

[Henry @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:43AM]

I know I do! Rendering scenes with global radiosity and volumetrics takes freakin forever, even with my Core 2 Duo!

[kadajawi @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:14AM]

Totally agreed. Getting stuff done in like an hour instead of a day would rock. Now where do I get $20000...?

[James @ Mar 22nd 2007 10:59AM]

Just a reminder, My PS3 got at least 256GFLOPS, not counting the GPU. Now, I just need some game or program other than Folding@Home to take advantage of it.

I want Wii!!!

[OBM @ Mar 22nd 2007 11:14AM]

"And it's "portable" in the same way a refrigerator is portable"

lol! loved it

[Standingfast @ Mar 22nd 2007 11:27AM]

I'd love to have one of those anyways...

[Frank @ Mar 22nd 2007 11:29AM]

I wonder how well this would handle the USB monitors. Maybe we will finally see 10+ monitors for a single [del]gamer[/del] workstation.

[Josh @ Mar 22nd 2007 11:56AM]

Engadget: Buy me one. I promise I'll join your Folding@Home team.

[linuxamp @ Mar 22nd 2007 11:57AM]

But can it play doom? Seriously though I'd love to take this out for a test drive. Just need to get a ridiculously fast Internet connection to go with the hardware. Time for FTTH.

[polar @ Mar 22nd 2007 12:39PM]

It also looks like it could double as an end table. I'll take two!

They'll also be nice space heaters in the winter I'm sure.

Looks like it'd be nice for some virtualization though.

[bazald @ Mar 22nd 2007 12:44PM]

"maybe you can put those spare cycles to use by solving the traveling salesman problem"

That might be the funniest thing I've read on Engadget.

[kevjohn @ Mar 22nd 2007 1:03PM]

Sure, but will it play Solitaire on Windows 98?

[Kev50027 @ Mar 22nd 2007 1:20PM]

Damn, and I thought my Core 2 Quadro with 1.15 Terabytes, an 8800 GTX and 2GB of RAM was top of the line.

[Rohan @ Mar 22nd 2007 3:22PM]

So I can probably get rid of my Cray X-MP now... ?

[Blake @ Mar 22nd 2007 3:24PM]

But can it run doom?

[some person @ Mar 22nd 2007 6:35PM]

How big is it? :O

[Chuckles McGee @ Mar 22nd 2007 7:40PM]

It's 21x14x28 inches, basically an oversized tower. Not bad. Switch out those 1.8 ghz Xenons with 2.66ers and maybe I'll start thinking about it.

[civockal @ Mar 22nd 2007 7:15PM]

dang and i thought my dual opteron (2.2gHz) with 1.35 TB with 6 gigs of ram and some SLI 8800's was pretty sweet

guess ill have to upgrade the soundcard again :-(

[armelo @ Mar 22nd 2007 7:43PM]

Your refrigerator's got wheels?

[Solomon @ Apr 8th 2007 1:54PM]

Yeah, but the PS3 is a TERAFLOP of power, so it is like four of these quad-core*10 thingers.

[Chaso @ Jul 14th 2007 7:02AM]

Everyone lusting after this object no doubt wishes to use it for self-improvement and the good of all. Thank God someone has finally invented a perfect system for the permanent adolescent incessantly playing idiotic juvenile video games, viewing horrific pornography, and engaging in meaningless chit-chat (in those rare moments not spent on the cell phone).

[TheNightFly @ Aug 24th 2007 10:02PM]

This isn't your dady's game server. I wouldn't use it to host any legacy games like Quake3 or Doom3, I'd use a cluster of these suckers to host the most advanced MMOs ever created. A virtual planet with real-world physics in which anything can be invented and everything is destructable (including the land) and the NPCs are so smart it's almost impossible to tell them apart from real players. They would be able to converse with each other, share facts about you and even create lies. They would also have unique voices and would be able to talk with players directly!

[Jason @ Sep 3rd 2007 7:46PM]

SWEET, I SOO want it. Think of playing Half Life2 on it or GMod 10. It would be SOO asoume. How do i get 20,000$? =( I need a job... a vary VARY high paying job...

[zod @ Dec 26th 2007 2:50PM]

Actually, I'd rather have 1,000 64bit embedded cores running at 40MHz each than 40 Xeon cores running at 1,000MHz each. I'd also run it with a highly customized version of Linux rather than Windows. But that's just me.