Tyan unleashes 16-core 'personal' supercomputer

[cwiz]

its like SETI... if that helps.... they link personal computers together thru the net to work on really complex science stuff like predicting how protiens will react to different compounds and stuff.

 

[Nitestick]

I would like to buy that and see if SuperPI could take advantage of that.... Or anything that crunchs numbers >_< SETI... Folding@home.... anything....

superpi.......no, not multi-threaded and you can't run multiple instances (successfully anyway)
seti@home.......not sure
folding@home.......not multi-threaded but multiple instances of the console version can be run, i have 2 running constantly.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

It uses a OS that is built to spread the work load... Don't need multi threaded software to use on it ya know.... It IS considered a personal Super Computer...

 

[003]

No, thats just what the company calls it. It is not a super computer. You could build something like that.

 

[harley3344]

i didnt see it in the article but how are they connecting the 4 mobos?

 

[Nitestick]

via network i assume, its clustering

 

[Apokalipse]

why didn't they use Opterons? they're more powerful than current Xeons

 

[Nitestick]

why didn't they use Opterons? they're more powerful than current Xeons

Computex 2006 Taiwan's Tyan today pledged to ship a deskside "personal supercomputer" powered by eight Intel low-voltage 'Woodcrest' Xeon processors and

not the current Xeon. its for the core 2 series