Talos I

Talos I or the Talos Secure Workstation was the original Talos™ system proposed by Raptor Computing Systems. As its crowdfunding effort on the CrowdSupply website was unsuccessful, this system was never created. A prototype mainboard was never made, yet some tests to simulate Talos I operation were run on an IBM S822LC Firestone server.

The Talos I design used a single POWER8 SCM chip and two Centaur memory buffers.
In contrast, Talos I's successor, Talos II, uses up to two POWER9 chips and directly attached memory.

Mainboard

Specifications (proposed)

Mainboard Part #	Form Factor	Sockets	CPU Type	Networking	Storage Controller
unknown	ATX	1	POWER8 SCM	2x GbE	SATA

Systems

In addition to being sold as a mainboard, the Talos I proposal also included pre-built systems.

SKU	Name
TALP8D050	Talos Desktop Edition
TALP8S050	Talos Storage Server
TALP8W100	Complete Talos Workstation

See also

• POWER8 - proposed CPU for Talos I
• Talos II - successor, POWER9 system

External Links

• Crowdsupply page for Talos I - contains POWER8 performance comparisons and other useful information
• Raptor Engineering Talos I prerelease page - now redirects to Talos II page at Raptor Computing Systems (archived), some subpages are still online:
  • Talos™, OpenPOWER™, and the World Beyond x86
  • Unreal® Engine 4 on OpenPOWER™
  • Talos™ Frequently Asked Questions
  • OpenPOWER / Talos™ Demonstration Videos and Presentations
  • Why POWER?
  • Preliminary Talos™ Specifications
  • GPU Passthrough on OpenPOWER™
  • Comparison of Talos™ with Existing Libre and Non-Libre Machines
  • Legacy x86 Applications on OpenPOWER™ via QEMU