Nvidia Launches Tesla Supercomputer, up to 960 Cores for $10,000

[fierce]

“Personal” and “supercomputer” aren’t words that would usually appear side by side, unless you’re a mastermind at Nvidia. With the announcement of their latest machine, the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, they’re looking to bring what was normally thought of as gigantic, to the small time.

The Tesla only costs 1/100th of what a normal supercomputer cluster would cost, and only takes up a small fraction of the space. Thanks to heterogeneous computing, the process of CPUs acting in tandem with GPUs, it all fits right into a desktop form factor.

It’s reported that the Tesla is based off of Nvidia’s CUDA architecture, making it possible for the system to be programmed in the C language. 960 cores can be working side by side inside the system, and it’s claimed that these systems are already in use at MIT, Cambridge and other environments.

How much will your own personal supercomputer run you? An admittedly reasonable 10 large. Hey, 960 cores is a bargain at that rate.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/nvidia_launches_tesla_supercomputer_960_cores_10000

I wanna have one .

- fierce .

 

[Spartan Erik]

But can it run Crysis?

Heh I'd like to see nVidia use that machine on their folding@home protein folding team

 

[swirly]

I remember reading about a memory wall somewhere. Like after 8 cores or something that its pointless to add more because we can't input enough data to utilize them.

 

[sunils]

Wow... its a good news. Already they are supplying processor for the mac book, now their own computer

 

[fierce]

But can it run Crysis?

in no time .You can do 1000 things in the same time with this MONSTER .

 

[alexandgruntz]

Cool, 1,000 instances of Crysis, with a few hundred VPCs running at the same time.

I'm saving up for one.

 

[fierce]

Cool, 1,000 instances of Crysis, with a few hundred VPCs running at the same time.

I'm saving up for one.

If I start saving now .. it would take me min. 2 yrs and 4 that time this will probably be a every day toy . xD ...

 

[Repneiras]

But can it run Crysis?

Heh I'd like to see nVidia use that machine on their folding@home protein folding team

It doesn't matter if it can run Crysis :eek4: , it only matters if it can run Solitaire

But that's one really big quad-quad-duo-quad-quad-duo-quadish core processor :drool: I've just figured out my Christmas present for the next 10 years will be :biggrin:

-Repneiras

 

[Fahad]

960 cores!?!
I know: let's calculate a few thousand trillion decimal places of Pi.

 

[kkenny]

lol. That's a lot of cores. I think 2 or 4 cores is enough for me though

 

[Twinkie]

I don't need more than 20 cores, but I'll get the super computer just in case

 

[rkreborn]

I think i'll build my computer for 1/10 of that... cheap -.-
lol i could trade my $7000 drumkit for it.