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Australia's CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer

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. 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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  2. 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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