NVidia Tesla:World's first "personal" supercomputer

NVidia has come up with "Tesla personal supercomputer" that delivers cluster computing like performance and is upto 250 times faster than the present day personal computers or workstations.

Tesla is powered by 4 GPU's, each having 240 processing cores (that makes 4*240=960 cores working in parallel in total) based on the NVidia's CUDA architecture, delivering whopping performance of near 4 Teraflops!

[thezuur]

wow

[mintaro]

Can anyone say Empire: Total War?

[umair_s51]

In 5-10 years such a thing will be common

[lord_of_balrogs]

I want this.

[DavidMacDougall]

Skynet!!!

[Digital Commando]

Whoa

[marichuu]

$10k ? That's incredibly cheap for such a beast. I just don't want to see the electricity bill after getting the damn machine ;<

[Fowack]

Microsoft® Windows® XP 64-bit and 32-bit (64-bit recommended)

made me laugh

[TBaT]

Ok looks pretty good, but can it play Crysis?

[XLiveGamer]

OMG ! (hiccup) damn (hiccup)

[TheIneffableBob]

Yes, but it probably wouldn't perform as well as cheaper cards meant for gaming.

Tesla is meant for things like GPGPU applications.

I'm not really sure why this news is on N4G now, though. Tesla is several months old.

[viperman240]

4 terflops? Thats 2 ps3's lol

[commodore64]

That's 2 PS3s if you have thousands of dedicated programmers that are NOT lazy and take three times as long to write ps3 optimised code.

lol

[ravenguard88]

That's never 2 PS3s, a PS3 as an entire machine can't hope to be that powerful in terms of floating point performance. A PS3 is something in the range of about 600 gigaflops all in, similar to the Xbox 360. The only source that states the PS3 is 2 Teraflops is Sony, and the only source that states the Xbox 360 is 1 Teraflop is Microsoft.

[Timesplitter14]

It could ALMOST run Crysis on max settings

(j/k)

[El_Colombiano]

Yes, but can it run Doom 3?

[ChampIDC]

No wai! None can handle teh powaz of Doom 3!

[OOG]

can it run Solitare?

[Timesplitter14]

yeah but you'll have to remove the anti-aliasing

[VMAN_01]

Wolfenstein 3D is a no go on this machine.

[wibble]

It's just a PC with 4 Geforce cards running in SLI. It's being marketed as a super computer in order to bump the price up.

[Scottama]

EACH GPU has 4GB of RAM.

As far as *I* know, there are no 4GB GeForce cards.
If you find one, please send it my way.

Could someone buy one and run a few benchmarks please?
I'd like to see how many FPS you could get on Crysis with 16GB VRAM xD

[wibble]

The amount of ram doesn't change the fact that they're still basically Geforce video cards.

If NVidia released a geforce video card tomorrow with more ram then they would still be Geforce video cards?

and btw - more video ram is unlikely to make Cyrsis run faster. Things like fill rate are usually the deciding factor in how fast a game runs.

[DeadlyFire]

960 cores and only near 4 Tflops? That sucks. It only takes 4-5 Cell chips to make one Tflop. IF they all run at 256 Gflops right?

Not only that, but most newer powerhouse videocards on the market now can do 1 Tflop themselves with only one to two cores.

[ravenguard88]

nVidia sells workstation cards based on the GTX 280 (which is why it has 240 cores each) with 4GB of dedicated DDR3 memory per card. They are, in a literal sense, just GTX 280s with more memory and different drivers to run them.

@DeadlyFire: What are you talking about? I think you're confusing cores with dies. A GTX 280 (which the cards in this thing are based on) have 240 processor cores each. For that matter, an HD4870 has 800 processor cores, but they are even smaller than the nVidia solution. You can't just say "more cores is better" because the power of each individual core can differ significantly. The Cell was built the way it was in order to make it better with general processing, which in turn makes it a mediocre parallel processor compared to a GPU. GPUs are meant to run hundreds upon hundreds of small threads, where a "CPU" is meant to handle one or two complex calculations at a time (or in the Cell's case, 8 if we're talking about a full Cell).

The way the GTX280 performs in floating point operations is by far more efficient than a Cell processor, as it would take about 4 or 5 Cells to reach the potential of the GTX280, which would likely come to be a little more than twice the die size and power consumption. "Why don't we put big core quad core processors on graphics cards instead of hundreds of smaller cores" is the question you need to ask.

[Kurylo3d]

wow wouldnt this thing be cool if it was the next console.

ps... crysis runs as maxed out quality with anti aliasing at 50 fps and 1900 widescreen resolutions.... on a geforce gtx 260 which only costs 220 dollars... im just saying for all those uninformed people who think u need more then that to run crysis maxed out.

[DelbertGrady]

Can it run Killzone 2?

[marichuu]

As long as your CPU can calculate the physics, or if you have a physics card in your computer, I'm pretty sure that KZ2 will run perfectly fine even with a 8800GT card.

[Zimbodavid]

ooohh Im getting this!! Search Pockets,wallet,bank account. On second thoughts......