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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.

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

    What a rip.

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

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

    The game is on.