[Year 12 IT Apps] Personal supercomputer, anyone?

[Timmer-Arends]

I can just hear it now...

"Brain the size of the universe and all I ever get to do is email"

Regards
Robert T-A

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List" 
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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Personal supercomputer, anyone?


> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/personal-supercomputers/
>
> "a four-GPU Tesla personal supercomputer from Nvidia can offer 4 teraflops 
> of parallel supercomputing performance with 960 cores and two Intel Xeon 
> 5500 Series Nehalem processors"
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