By around 4000 euros, you can buy a supercomputer that fits on top of your desk. The machines, mounted by several companies, are equipped with graphics processing units of Tesla C1060. Chips are developed by Nvidia with no less than 240 nuclei of parallel processing.
One chip has 250 times the processing capacity of a standard [...]
The thought of a supercomputer gives us an impression of a big machine filling large rooms, costing millions of pounds, worked on by several people. Tesla Supercomputer is nothing like that. Being the world’s first personal supercomputer unveiled, it looks like our own PC but is about 250 times faster.
The gadget expected to modernize the [...]
If you had been glossing over those 4 core computers for their high efficiency and speed, think once about the super computers, which have hundreds of cores in them, all arranged in a rack. Now, in an ever-growing silicon industry, the aptly named Silicon Graphics announced its concept computer, which it calls the Molecule.
The Molecule [...]