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Written by Daniel
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:33 |
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Hardware maker Nvidia has announced a new computer that has the power of a cluster of computers at a small fraction of the cost. Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:20 AM PST Nvidia, working with several partners, has developed the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, powered by a graphics processing unit based on Nvidia's Cuda parallel computing architecture. Computers using the Tesla C1060 GPU processor will have 250 times the processing power of a typical PC workstation, enabling researchers to run complicated simulations, experiments and number crunching without sharing a supercomputing cluster, Nvidia said.
The Tesla C1060 card, available on computers Tuesday, will sell for US$1,699, with desktop computer systems including the card selling for less than $9,995, said Andrew Humber, an Nvidia spokesman. The systems would run at a processing speed of four teraflops, or four trillion floating point operations per second. [PC World...] [Comments...]
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