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Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on from the many-cores-make-light-work dept.

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."

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  1. Hrmm by acehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Hrmm by wisty · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

      Do you have pepper sauce?

  2. Re:Eat a vacuum cleaner by Fred_A · · Score: 5, Funny

    >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!

    But it's *green* pepper !

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