Saturday 6 December, 2008

PC to become Super PC

NVIDIA ,the leader in visual computing devices  ,has unveiled the First ever Personal Super Computer.NVIDIA's has leveraged its high performance processor GPU to bring in High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions.  image

Until Super computers which are usually room size ,million dollar,complex computing systems. But the The GPU-based Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer, is priced between£4,000 and £8,000 and look much like an ordinary PC.

“We’ve all heard ‘desktop supercomputer’ claims in the past, but this time it’s for real,” said Burton Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow.  Heterogeneous computing, where GPUs work in tandem with CPUs, is what makes such a breakthrough possible.”

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Though it is priced 1/100th of the price of a normal supercomputer,it is still high for a normal PC user.So initially NVIDIA will be looking at universities and to the scientific and research community.

David Kirk, chief scientist at NVIDIA, the American company which has designed the new technology, said: "Pretty much anything that you do on your PC that takes a lot of time can be accelerated with this.These supercomputers can improve the time it takes to process information by 1,000 times.If you imagine it takes a week to get a result [from running an experiment], you can only do it 52 times a year. If it takes you minutes, you can do it constantly, and learn just as much in a day."

The PC maker Dell, however, said that it would soon be mass producing them for the general consumer market. Eric Greffier, a Dell senior executive, said: "Before mobile phones were reserved for the few, now we can't live without them. It will be the same with these supercomputers. They are the building block for the computing of the future."

I don't know about research , but imagine all the games that could be played with so much power.Looks SUPER COOL to me :)

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