Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs 232
FnH writes "Researchers at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have created a new supercomputer with standard gaming hardware. The system uses four NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards, costs less than €4,000 to build, and delivers roughly the same performance as a supercomputer cluster consisting of hundreds of PCs. This new system is used by the ASTRA research group, part of the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp, to develop new computational methods for tomography. The guys explain the eight NVIDIA GPUs deliver the same performance for their work as more than 300 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processors. On a normal desktop PC their tomography tasks would take several weeks but on this NVIDIA-based supercomputer it only takes a couple of hours. The NVIDIA graphics cards do the job very efficiently and consume a lot less power than a supercomputer cluster."
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The medical researchers ran some benchmarks and found that in some cases their 4000EUR desktop superPC outperforms CalcUA, a 256-node supercomputer with dual AMD Opteron 250 2.4GHz chips that cost the University of Antwerp 3.5 million euro in March 2005...
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The price ! (Score:3, Funny)
What's more crazy: calling something this inexpensive a supercomputer, or 4 video cards costing a freaking 4,000 EUR.
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You don't need a super-duper CPU for text editing
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Re:Get the performance where it's most needed (Score:5, Funny)
There, I corrected that for you.
Re:By what benchmark? (Score:3, Funny)
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There, I corrected that for you.
Clearly YOU have never used EMACS!