TYAN Announces Six New Platforms that Support the New Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series

By DE Editors

TYAN’s new product line will fully support the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series (formerly codenamed “Nehalem”).  All six new products are powered by the enhanced Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with built-in Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) technology. Four of the new products are server/workstation motherboards and two are barebone solutions.

For the motherboards, TYAN’s S7002, S7010, S7012, and S7016 meet various customers’ needs in general server, HPC cluster, and workstation requirements. For barebone solutions, TYAN also launched the GT20-B7002 and GT24-B7016 systems for both entry and high-end computing requirements. Powered by Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, all these platforms will have better performance-per-watt with lower energy cost saving.

The TYAN S7002 and TYAN S7010 target generic IT server requirement and both support two Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with two GbE ports. The S7002 supports eight DDR-III DIMM slots for entry level server/workstation users while S7010 supports up to 12 DDR-III DIMM slots.

TYAN S7012 and S7016 are the two platforms that target at HPC and virtualization applications with two Intel Xeon processor 5500 series support. S7012 and S7016 both support 18 DDR-III DIMMs with more than two GbE ports.

For the barebone systems, the TYAN GT20-B7002 and GT24-B7016 cover server applications for both entry and high-end rackmount server segments. Supporting two Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, eight DDR-III DIMMs, two GbE ports, four 3.5-in. hot-swappable HDDs, and one full-height, true PCI-E Gen.2 x16 slot, TYAN GT20-B7002 is suited to SMB application requirements. For HPC and virtualization applications, the TYAN GT24-B7016 supports two Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, 18 DDR-III DIMMs, three GbE ports, four 3.5-in. hot-swappable HDDs, and two full-height, PCI-E Gen.2 slots.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.