World's first personal supercomputer unveiled

[plazma]

The world's first personal supercomputer, which is 250 times faster than the average PC, has been unveiled.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3564435/Worlds-first-personal-supercomputer-unveiled.html

Yes, but can it handle the new Starcraft?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Interesting to say the least...

But it seems to be very specialised... be very intrigued to see how they make it apply to personal computers...

 

[rwenzori]

Not much more $$ than a Mac Pro LOL!

 

[psc]

It's just a CUDA engine (NVidia Graphics card without the Video ouput capability). Most? (some) people have a personal supercomputer without knowing it

 

[scotty777]

It's just a CUDA engine (NVidia Graphics card without the Video ouput capability). Most? (some) people have a personal supercomputer without knowing it

Yes, you are right, but I think Nvidia are really making a desperate dash to get themselves in the consumers homes.

But here

 

[psc]

Build your own

Example config :

Motherboard Tyan S7025
PCI-e bandwidth 4x PCI-e x16 Gen2 slots
Tesla GPUs 4x Tesla C1060
Graphics On-board graphics (works with Linux, Windows requires NVIDIA GPU in one of the PCI-e slots
CPU Dual-socket Intel Xeon Nehalem
Memory 24 GB (4x 4GB) DDR3 DIMMs (motherboard takes up to 64 GB)
Power Supply Coolmax CUQ-1350B 1350W
Case Lian Li PC-P80
Hard drive 640 GB
DVD drive DVD burner
CPU fan, heat sink For the Intel Xeon


........

All you need to search for oil in your back yard

 

[Pyro]

So if I throw 2x GTX 295 into my PC (480x2=960 cores), I have a supercomputer?

WOW!

Way cheaper than 4000 pounds too.

Just out of interest's sake, the nVidia site only claims 250x performance.

 

[Jabberwocky]

wonder if it is the same as what intel is doing with larrabee.

will be nice to have that for 3d animation rendering.

 

[dam]

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will be nice to have that for 3d animation rendering.

Well you already can, using Gelato and an Nvidia card, http://www.nvidia.com/page/gz_learn.html

 

[scotty777]

So if I throw 2x GTX 295 into my PC (480x2=960 cores), I have a supercomputer?

WOW!

Way cheaper than 4000 pounds too.

Just out of interest's sake, the nVidia site only claims 250x performance.

I dunno, your graphics card is designed for rendering and displaying info from the CPU. These are designed to just crunch numbers, no displaying at all. They also have 4gig's of ram each, so more shyte can be loaded on the processor to be processed. But I don't think Nvidia has enough imagination/funding to create a whole new processor, so there are probably just GTX 280's with more ram, PCB resigns and different bios's. I guess you could just use CUDA, but due to lower RAM on board you might have limitations of the very demanding applications.

 

[Pyro]

Adding ram does not change something from a computer to a supercomputer, so I'd hardly consider that the differntiating factor. They can drop the rasteriser, and with the extra memory the're probably less of an issue with the bus limiting you.

Still... A supercomputer? Anybody know if CUDA has been used to run the LINPACK tests yet?