This may not be the best supercomputer we've ever seen, but it has some interesting points to look at. Researchers from the University of Antwerp used four of NVIDIA's high-end GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards to build a computer capable of developing new computational methods for tomography. Powered by a 1,500W power source it runs on an AMD Phenom 9850 processor, has 8GB of RAM, and a 750GB hard drive.
Dubbed FASTRA, the new system is capable of doing computations that took 1 hour before, in just a few seconds. Here is an overview:
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thats crazy - what a great idea!
Posted by: matt | May 30, 2008 8:51 PM | Permalink to Comment