Pyramid Technology Corp will this week announce availability of its Reliant RM1000 Cluster Server. It’s essentially a scaled-down version of the MIPS Technologies Inc R4400-based massively parallel RM1000, using the Meshine interconnect to cluster Nile symmetric multiprocessing servers and massively parallel nodes. The Cluster Server acts as a host input-output node enabling symmetric multiprocessing and massively parallel applications to run under a single system image. Pyramid is targeting data warehouse and enterprise-class analytical processing users. It expects Cluster Server to be used to tie symmetric multiprocessing-based multi-dimensional data stores into back-end relational data warehouses running on massively parallel nodes. Pyramid says the mesh interconnect removes the need for SCSI cabling as in traditional clusters and comes with hot-swappable components for adding nodes.
