Nvidia announces the Tesla C1060 GPU Processor
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Hardware maker Nvidia has announced a new computer that has the power of a cluster of computers without the high cost.
Nvidia, working with several partners, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Western Scientific, and others, has developed the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, using the graphics processing unit based on Nvidia’s Cuda parallel computing architecture.
Burton Smith, a technical fellow at Microsoft stated while there have been claims of desktop supercomputers in the past, “this time it’s for real,”
Nvidia representiatives say computers using the Tesla C1060 GPU processor will have 250 times the processing power of a typical PC workstation, enabling researchers to run complicated simulations, experiments and number crunching processes without the need for a supercomputing cluster.
This so-called "personal supercomputer" will incorporate anywhere from between two to four Tesla C1060 processors, made up of 240 stream processing cores.
