Talos™ II Secure Workstation
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Talos™ II Secure Workstation including:

Heavy-duty chassis with redundant 1620W power supplies
A single Talos™ II EATX mainboard
Two 4-core IBM POWER9 CPUs (recommended)
- 4 cores per package
- SMT4 capable
- POWER IOMMU
- Hardware virtualization extensions
- 90W TDP
- Additional Sforza CPU options planned (preorder now, upgrade later)
One or two 3U POWER9 heatsink / fan (HSF) assemblies (same as CPU count)
32GB DDR4 ECC registered memory (recommended, other options available)
LG Blu-Ray Optical Drive
2 front panel USB 3.0 ports
8 hot-swap SAS/SATA drive bays (functionality requires SAS controller)
AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 workstation graphics (optional, recommended)
- 4x DisplayPort outputs
- 8GB GDDR5 VRAM
500GB Samsung internal NVMe storage (optional, recommended)
Recovery DVD

The Talos™ II mainboard is the first modern (post-2013), owner-controllable, workstation- and enterprise-class mainboard. Built around the brand-new IBM POWER9 processor, and leveraging Linux and OpenPOWER™ technology, Talos™ II allows you to secure your data without sacrificing performance. Designed with a fully owner-controlled CPU domain, you can audit and modify any portion of the open source firmware on the Talos™ II mainboard, all the way down to the CPU microcode. This is an unprecedented level of access for any modern workstation- or enterprise-class machine, and one that is increasingly needed to assure safety and compliance with new regulations, such as the EU's GDPR.

An owner-controlled, CPU-based secure boot mode also is available at any time. When secure boot is properly configured, and if the mainboard is located in a physically secure environment (e.g., a datacenter or locked workstation case), you can be assured that only your pre-approved and pre-audited firmware, kernel, and user space components are executing on a Talos™ II system.

Specifications

2 POWER9-compatible CPU sockets
EATX form factor
16 DDR4 ECC registered RAM slots
Individual 128GB DDR4 DIMM support
Supports up to 2TB total main system memory
3 PCIe 4.0 x16 slots
2 PCIe 4.0 x8 slots
2 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet ports
1 Microsemi SAS 3.0 controller (optional, upcharge on selection)
4 USB 3.0 ports
2 external
2 on internal header
1 USB 2.0 port
1 external RS-232 port
1 internal RS-232 port header
1 ASpeed BMC with OpenBMC
1 VGA video port

Secure and control your high-performance computing today with a modern, expandable Talos™ II system