( OT) Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs

- Something to think about:

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.


The guys explain that 8 GPU's get the same performance as 300 Intel
Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processors

Cost is 4,000 Euros.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../05/31/1633214

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:05:43 -0700 (PDT), David
<> wrote:

>- Something to think about:
>
>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.
>
>
>The guys explain that 8 GPU's get the same performance as 300 Intel
>Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processors
>
>Cost is 4,000 Euros.
>
>http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../05/31/1633214

The article is misleading in that is makes reference to how fast
graphics are drawn/calculated and not raw computing power which
so-called super computers are intended for, ie crunching numbers, not
just moving/calculating the position of pixels on screen.