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

Posted by timothy on from the plugs-into-standard-power-strip dept.

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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  1. Graphics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, that's some serious computing power! I wonder if anyone has thought of using these for graphics or rendering? I imagine they could make some killer games, especially with advanced technology like Direct 3D.

    1. Re:Graphics by Gnavpot · · Score: 4, Funny

      "I wonder if anyone has thought of using these for graphics or rendering?"

      These are effectively just NVIDIA GT280 chips with the ports removed. Their heritage is gaming.

      We need a "+1 Whoosh" moderation option.

      No, I do not mean "-1 Whoosh". I want to see those embarrassingly stupid postings. But perhaps this moderation option should subtract karma.

    2. Re:Graphics by GigaplexNZ · · Score: 4, Funny

      I suppose I'm one of those guys now. Hook, line and sinker.

  2. What, no coil? by dgun · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a rip.

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    1. Re:What, no coil? by geekmux · · Score: 3, Funny

      What a rip.

      Yeah, no shit. First bastard that tries to put a "Tesla Capable" sticker on the front, I'm gonna sue.

  3. Let me be the first to say... by rdnetto · · Score: 5, Funny

    4 Terraflops should be more than enough for anybody...

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. And in other news... by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... AMD has annouced today it new Edison Personal Supercomputer technology.

    The game is on.

  6. Re:It also runs Python by OriginalArlen · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is how God intended us to program.

    Then why did he write Perl?

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  7. Re:FLOPS not FLOP! by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the plural of FLOPS then? My preciouss FLOPSes?

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