Orion Multisystems plans to create “personal supercomputers” aimed at researchers, designers and other users of high-performance computers.

A key innovation is to control the power consumption so that the whole system can be run from a standard electrical socket.

Orion’s DS-96 deskside Cluster Workstation is capable of handling 150 Gflops (150 billion calculations per second) on a regular basis and 300 Gflops peak and hard-disk capacity of up to 9.6 trillion bytes.