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Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer
angry tapir writes "Asustek has unveiled its first supercomputer, the desktop computer-sized ESC 1000, which uses Nvidia graphics processors to attain speeds up to 1.1 teraflops. Asus's ESC 1000 comes with a 3.33GHz Intel LGA1366 Xeon W3580 microprocessor designed for servers, along with 960 graphics processing cores from Nvidia inside three Tesla c1060 Computing Processors and one Quadro FX5800."
and it's much cheaper and more effective than just using multiple multi-core processors. parallel computing is the future. how long before we have three dimensional processors?
How many pets would I have to eat to balance out the carbon footprint of this?
I've got a six-pack of kittens at the ready.
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The real question of course is, what the "Windows Vista experience index" of this machine is. If it's anywhere below 5.5 it's obviously not worth the bother.
Well, that's easy enough. Just get 38 of these things, hook'em together and MosesJones, you will have #500 on that list!
The PSU is only 1100W. It's not that intensive - three teslas are like three big graphics cards. 2 or 3 kittens would be sufficient, so you've got enough to share.
1100W? Can I eat my vacuum cleaner instead? Yummy.
Do you have pepper sauce?
Pepper sauce? Pepper sauce?!? Do you have any idea what the carbon footprint of pepper sauce is? My brother ate pepper sauce once. He had to eat a whole zoo full of animals to make up for it! Stay away from the sauce!
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The one with all the squinty people. Which one's that?
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Please ignore parent comment. I realized the obvious error, stemming from the misinformation in GP comment.
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Nah - with such processing power, one might actually see a Windows machine perform properly! From boot to blue screen of death in mere milliseconds! Run your malware faster than ever! See clippy dance furiously across the screen in smooth 250 fps animation!
Everything named after Tesla should be trusted by default.
>but I'm no expert here so I could well be wrong.
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I think that's San Francisco.
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Yes indeed. Who in their right mind would run anything GPU-intensive on Windows? The platform is well known for having absolutely terrible video drivers. I hear that most manufacturers don't even support the platform, and just expect the community to write drivers!
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I was expecting it to be called the Eee-1. But EEE-niac would have been cool too.
Most likely the Popular People's Republic of China.
Splitters.
Does it run Linux?
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