Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer

[XBoxLPU]

Hmm

 

[Idontcare]

this has all the same hallmarks as Elbrus and BitBoys Oy...

 

[QTPie]

wow, that's amazing!

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The new chip is a parallel processor capable of performing 25 billion floating-point operations per second, or 25 gigaflops.

According to the company, the chip has the potential to bring supercomputer performance to the desktop.

An ordinary desktop PC outfitted with six PCI cards, each containing four of the chips, would perform at about 600 gigaflops (or more than half a teraflop).

At this level of performance, the PC would qualify as one of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world.

 

[UlricT]

I smell something...

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: UlricT
I smell something...

Sorry that was me,I farted.

 

[thorin]

This is no big surprise considering the original GeForce was rumoured to be capable of pushing something like 50 GigaFlops under ideal conditions. Too bad most of the distributed computing applications are integer based.

Thorin

 

[Jeff7181]

Deja Vu

 

[aka1nas]

The card is supposed to be like $16000 itself, so this isn't really a solution meant for home PCs. This would be cool for clusters though as you could probably use fewer nodes by having them use a few of these cards. However, its mainly for floating point operations, so that doesn't help to much for integer heavy applications.

 

[grant2]

hey if someone wants to spend $16,000, I can give you 200 gigaflops for half as much!! what a deal!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

It's been brought up before. It is for specific purposes, it's not something you'd cram into your regular machine to play HL2 or whatever.

 

[UlricT]

then why did they say "Home PC"

 

[Acanthus]

repost.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
repost.

Very good, you figured out how to post a message...here is your treat :beer:, now try doing the math and figure out which thread is the repost...(hint: Oct14 occurs BEFORE Oct 15)