Thursday, November 20, 2008

NVidia Tesla Update - supercomputing at the desktop



Update regarding a post I made almost a year and a half ago, NVidia's Tesla may be changing our definition of super-performing personal computers.

For those with enough cash - around 10 grand for the base model - you can get your very own personal "Super-Computer!"

Seriously - can you imagine what this could do for very small scientific research companies?

Each processor can sustain one teraflop. Need more power? Add processors . . . up to four for now and possibly more in the future.

More info:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Nvidia-Details-Personal-Supercomputer-Design-Based-on-Tesla-GPU/

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html