Monday, November 24, 2008

Get your own supercomputer

It is something like having a Dinosaur as a pet, or spending my vacation on the moon, Regardless that you have to be rich to do .. the point here is that it is possible to do.
I was excited when I heard of it, it worth mentioning.
Nvidia has launched a "personal supercomputer".
The company already produces supercomputers, but for researches and technology research centers, the new point is that it is available for personal use.
About the Tesla personal supercomputer:
  • Processing power is 250 times normal PCs and workstations.
  • Speed is 4 tera-flops (executes 4 trillion floating point operation per one second).
  • Processors: 3 or 4 "Tesla C1060 GPU" each 1.29 GHz in clock speed.
  • Memory of each processor: 4GHz, speed: 800 MHz.
  • Supported operating systems include Windows XP, Red Hat and SUSE



The Tesla personal supercomputer seems to be designed for PC gaming, and highly computational research and professional work.
According to Nvidia: several institutes already uses a GPU based personal computer (ex the Max Planck Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cambridge University).
Last thing: its price, it is expected to reach $10,000 very cheap :D
For more information, http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html

4 comments:

  1. Or u can buy a personal super computer from cray for just $25,000 Only :D

    see this
    http://www.newxwin.net/news/main/microsoft_cray_launch_personal_supercomputer_for_25k/2008/09/16/3008

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  2. ana ba2ooL,, e7na negeeb meno lel labz 3andena fel kollia... hay3melolna discount bardo

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  3. Wow good comment, but mine is still cheapest ;)

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  4. very nice ,but the problem that i have only now $9,500 ,just kidding
    it is not cheap man :D,but good info

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