November 14, 2006
http://www.tyanpsc.com/NewsRoom/NewsroomDetail/tabid/75/Default.aspx?id=16&data=1
Typhoon Personal Supercomputer platform provides turnkey
integration
SC2006 Tampa, Fla. Nov 14, 2006 – Tyan Computer Corporation, a
leader in high performance computing system design, today announced a
partnership with Platform Computing Inc. for optional bundling of
Platform’s Open Cluster Stack (OCS) as an integrated vendor
certified cluster stack for the TyanPSC Typhoon personal supercomputer.
The TyanPSC Typhoon 600 series is based on Quad-Core Intel® Xeon®
Processors 5300 Series (Clovertown). Tyan's innovative line of personal
supercomputers provide new ways to use and access the computational
power of supercomputing by offering turnkey workstations that are easy
to deploy, easy to use, and work in any lab, office or other
constrained environments.
Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) is a modular and hybrid stack that
transparently integrates open source and commercial software into a
single consistent cluster operating environment. Platform OCS is a
pre-integrated, vendor certified software stack that assures the
consistent delivery of scale-out application clusters. This enhanced
software stack eliminates the higher costs of sales, support and
development caused by inconsistent software and certification in Linux
clusters.
TyanPSC will offer Platform OCS for single Typhoon PSC cluster systems
and for organization seeking to grid-enable the TyanPSC Typhoons to
form an organizational grid can leverage Platform LSF and Multi-cluster
options available as a factory install.
"Platform Computing is pleased to have been selected by Tyan to offer
Platform OCS for the TyanPSC Typhoon systems. We intent to work closely
with Tyan to ensure our offerings are consistent with TyanPSC’s vision
of personal supercomputing. In addition, Platform LSF and Multi-cluster
software will enable users of TyanPSC Typhoons to form a loosely
coupled organizational Grid with minimum effort," said Chris Purpura,
Vice President of New Ventures Group and Strategic Alliances,
Platform Computing. "Platform’s support infrastructure gives TyanPSC
customers and partners the best of the open source and commercial
software worlds – customers get the support they expect from a
commercial vendor and benefit from the unique innovation that is
symbolic of open source. Because Platform OCS is certified and runs on
TyanPSC Typhoon clusters, ISVs are able to target a large portion of
the personal supercomputing market without increasing their development
and validation costs."
"Tyan has taken a leadership position in the personal supercomputing
space, delivering Typhoon I nearly 1 year ago and now we are launching
Typhoon 600 series based on the latest Quad-Core Intel® Xeon®
Processors," said Eric Chang, Vice President of Strategic
Marketing, Tyan Computer. "Platform’s Open Cluster Stack is helping us
extend our personal supercomputing leadership by offering ease of use
for the end users, best in class cluster software and support and at
the same time, enabling organization to form a production ready
enterprise Grid based on Typhoon 600 series clusters with Platform LSF
and Multi-cluster."
Typhoon 600 Series Features:
- 256 gigaflops peak performance
- 1400 Watts max, plugs into standard wall outlet
- Small form factor, portable
- Low-noise, whisper quiet operation… less than 52dB.
- Platform Computing Open Cluster Stack
- Personal Supercomputer using Microsoft Windows Computer Cluster
Server 2003
- Up to 40 CPU cores per system
Availability and Pricing:
The Typhoon 600 Series starts under $15,000 USD, with general
availability in January 2007. To learn more about TyanPSC and the
Typhoon 600 series personal supercomputer, please visit
www.tyanpsc.com
