Okay, so “personal supercomputer” is a bit of a misnomer as there aren’t many individuals that would have need of a 16-core server, but there are plenty of research labs, medical facilities and other small companies that could make use of the number-crunching power provided by Tyan new Typhoon.

Speaking of power, the Typhoon gets its groove on courtesy of four removable motherboards, each sporting a pair of dual-core Intel Xeon 5100-series LV processors, up to 12GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory, dual Gigabit NICs, and a single, lonely SATA device.  The four motherboards are capable of working in concert via clustering sofware on Windows and Linux platforms. 

As always, with great power comes a little sacrifice and Tyan is estimating that purchasers will need to place at least $10,000 USD on the sacrificial altar to obtain a Typhoon.  It may be pricey, but it would certainly get your Folding@home, or other distributed computing project, well underway.  The various models in the Typhoon lineup will be available this Fall.

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