Posted by NARUTO on October 28, 2010 ·
The chip maker Nvidia announced that a new supercomputer built in China is the world’s fastest and uses seven thousand of its graphics processing units (GPUs).
The supercomputer, built by the National University of Defence Technology and installed in the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, has power equivalent to 175,000 laptops, according [...]
Posted by NARUTO on December 13, 2008 ·
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 PC, according to the [...]
Posted by Ramya on December 7, 2008 ·
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 working [...]
Posted by Carlos on November 18, 2008 ·
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 uses off the [...]