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 company. The supercomputers – that looks like a conventional desktop – equipped with the technology are designed to use a traditional taken as a source of energy and are quiet enough to be on the table of the office, lists the Nvidia.

For now, the machines will be sold to researchers and universities. But the largest manufacturer of PCs in the world, Dell, has shown interest in taking the supermachines to the common user.

This new line of supercomputers is capable of dealing with tasks that require a number of simultaneous calculations so great that today are made by groups of machines that occupy one quarter and full cost 70,000 euros.

Among the likely uses, are searches in biological and medical areas, applications in the field of exploration of oil and gas, and calculations that could serve the aerospace engineering industry.

Via: Folha.

The gadget expected to modernize the working speed of doctors and scientists makes use of graphics processing units. It will allow the doctors to process the results of brain and body scans thereby giving quick diagnosis of tumors that would otherwise take days. It will also help them in finding cure for cancer and malaria, all because of its potential to run hundreds of stimulations within a short time. The use of this technology on a home computer could give it lightening speeds.

Initially on sale to the universities and to the scientific and research communities, PC maker Dell would soon release them into domestic market. Though highly priced costing between £4,000 and £8,000, I think that these supercomputers are worth the cash!

Source: Telegraph

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 shelf but consumer electronic components and comes with an astounding 10,000 cores all jam-packed into a single rack. This however is still a concept and isn’t real. It however helps us understand how we can use chips and memory in PCs and create an awesome powerhouse. The Molecule is capable of handling 20,000 threads and consumes very little power.

However, this isn’t the only computer with so many cores. Most supercomputers come with more than 100,000 cores and these are the ones used by scientists for advanced research. However, Molecule looks like a promising concept, which is not only technologically advanced but also power saving and useful. It is only a matter of time that we shall know if it is ever going to be released.

Via: Wired