NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer

gupg writes "NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000. This desktop machine has 4 of the Tesla C1060 computing processors. These GPUs have no graphics out and are used only for computing. Each Tesla GPU has 240 cores and delivers about 1 TeraFLOPS single precision and about 80 GigaFLOPS double-precision floating point performance. The CPU + GPU is programmed using C with added keywords using a parallel programming model called CUDA. The CUDA C compiler/development toolchain is free to download. There are tons of applications ported to CUDA including Mathematica, LabView, ANSYS Mechanical, and tons of scientific codes from molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and electromagnetics; they're listed on CUDA Zone."

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Only in C? Oh dear.

[Viol8]

That'll frighten a lot of the OO fanboys who have to have a friggin inheritance tree and a factory based abstracted class design before they can write Hello World.

Sorry , its early , I'm feeling grouchy.

Re:Binary-only toolchain

[neumayr]

So not only are you bragging with your confederation's legislation - something you personally most likely had no influence on, at all, you're also claiming other confederation's legislations have no influence on you, or your confederation.

That kind of euro-centric view reeks of nationalism, and is no different than the US-centric view Americans contantly get accused of.