Your Very Own Personal Supercomputer

Let's assume you have that need for multitasking, and you feel your computer just doesn't rise up to your expectations, say you want to make an AVI movie out of a DVD, while recording a TV show from your TV Tuner, and at the same time, surfing the Internet and running a processor benchmark. If so, then you can consider yourself a person who has every intention of getting the most out of your system, in lack of a better term. For the power hungry computer user a solution is available, a personal supercomputer.

Tyan Computer Corporation announced the "immediate availability" of the TyanPSC T-600 series Personal Supercomputer featuring Intel Xeon processors. I'm thinking their "immediate availability" announcement was made in somewhat of a hurry due to the increasing number of "power hungry" computer users. The first model from this series is the TyanPSC T-650 QX Personal Supercomputer. It has some pretty interesting details regarding its configuration, featuring Quad-Core Intel Xeon L5320 processors, that's right, processors.

The supercomputer is made out of a 5-node cluster, harboring 40 cores under its casing, with a power consumption of 1400W, less than 52dB operating noise, and up to 60GB of RAM. The operating system this particular model works on is Microsoft's Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003, or it can easily use a Linux Operating System.

"We're leaving the performance compromise of personal supercomputing behind us by delivering a system into office environments that pumps out nearly one quarter of a Teraflop without the mess and difficulty of the back room data center model. Our T-600 series personal supercomputers represent a tremendous leap for our customers who require performance-on-demand to reach their efficiency goals and get results. With the TyanPSC T-600 series, you just open the box, roll it into your office and plug it in. That's what we provide our customers - hands on supercomputing," said Eric Chang, General Manager, High Performance Computing Product Group, Tyan Computer Corporation.