Tyan Computer Corp recently announced to have come up with the expansion its range of robust Tyan PSC workgroup servers, well known as Typhoon, with the incorporation of a model founded on processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The series of Typhoon 500 have been developed to sprint on AMD’s Opteron 2200 server chips, rather than the Intel Corp’s Xeon chips utilized in prior versions of the system.
Being showcased at the CeBit exhibition in Hanover, Germany, the latest server, is in fact a computing cluster, which is touted to be integrated with a dual-processor ‘head node’ and four ‘compute nodes’, each with room for two processors and up to 20G bytes of DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory.
Overall, the Typhoon 500 is capable of giving support to up to 20 processor cores, claimed by Tyan, mind the system has been brought about to sprint Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.The Typhoon 500 is likely to be availed in April, with the price range beginning from US$20,000 for each server, depending on the specifications.
