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Australia's CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on from the ready-for-duke-nuken-forever dept.

bennyboy64 contributes this excerpt from CRN Australia: "The CSIRO will this week launch a new supercomputer which uses a cluster of GPUs [pictures] to gain a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size. The supercomputer is one of the world's first to combine traditional CPUs with the more powerful GPUs. It features 100 Intel Xeon CPU chips and 50 Tesla GPU chips, connected to an 80 Terabyte Hitachi Data Systems network attached storage unit. CSIRO science applications have already seen 10-100x speedups on NVIDIA GPUs."

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  1. Cool but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ..can it Run CRySiS?

  2. The World of Tomorrow by muphin · · Score: 1, Funny

    wow the world of technology is spiking, i remember only a few years ago there was only 1 massive super computer, now every university will have one, what next, link every supercomputer and have a supercomputer cloud or should i say nebula now? :p the rise of the machine, let me take this time to welcome our new ovelords.

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  3. FINALY! by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finaly a machine good enought to run Crysis at full specs on 1680x1050 (well, I hope so)

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  4. NVIDIA, huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does it use wood screws?

  5. Re:SIMD by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    You lost me there, your car analogy contains a train, which threw me off track.

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