Liquid Computing launches high-end server

Liquid Computing, an Ottawa-based start-up, has begun selling its high-end servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor.

The systems, called LiquidIQ, have room for as many as 80 Opteron chips in a 45.5-inch-tall rack-mountable chassis, and as many as 12 chassis can be linked together with a single high-speed communication network. They're geared initially for high-performance computing markets, where the company promises faster performance than conventional clusters of x86 servers, but eventually the company hopes ordinary commercial buyers will be interested.
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