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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. No point running desktop Windows on this monster.. by jkrise · · Score: 0, Troll

    This grade of machines need Linux on them... not Windows; and Asus has been in bed with MS for some while now.

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  2. CUDA or OpenCL? by Shag · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sounds like a nice toy to run stuff coded for CUDA or OpenCL - does anything OS than OS X support either of those properly yet?

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  3. Re:Shame on US, Chinese companies lead the way by hydrolyzer · · Score: 0, Troll

    I couldnt really care less who the economic super power is, but nVidia is an american company is it not? I would consider having a chinese company make a product from american parts a nice and balanced economic system, rather then an american company making things from american parts. I for one, welcome our new multicultural overlords.