Back in October, ASUS impressed the world with the
announcement of its P6TS WS Revolution motherboard, packed with six PCI-E 2.0
slots and a single nForce 200 SLI chip. At CeBIT, the company has outdone
itself once again with the announcement of a massively parallel board with more
number crunching capability than ever before.
The ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer is a newly announced X58
motherboard that sports no less than seven PCI-E 2.0 slots controlled by two
nForce 200 SLI chips. More specifically, four of these slots are x16 and three
are x8 electrical, and 3-way SLI and CrossFire are also supported.
Additional features of this board include six memory slots
for up to 24GB of DDR3, six SATA II ports, two SAS ports supporting RAID 0, 1,
10, two eSATA ports and the usual 7.1 onboard sound and dual Gigabit Ethernet.
Obviously, this board brings some optimistic hope for
Folding@home enthusiasts, as it has been said to be the "best choice for
intensive parallel computing demand." No pricing and availability information
have been revealed yet, but with the P6T6 WS Revolution averaging $370 in the US market, that
should give a rough estimate of what to expect.
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 19:44
ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer motherboard displayed
Written by Jon Worrel
Cebit 2009: Seven PCI-E slots, massively parallel
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