Its about time we get supercomputers for ourselves, right? All those with deep pockets who dream of really owning a supercomputer,your prayers have been answered.
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!
Here are some more of its specs from NVidia website:
Tesla Architecture
- Massively-parallel many-core architecture
- 240 scalar processor cores per GPU
- Integer, single-precision and double-precision floating point operations
- Hardware Thread Execution Manager enables thousands of concurrent threads per GPU
- Parallel shared memory enables processor cores to collaborate on shared information at local cache performance
- Ultra-fast GPU memory access with 102 GB/s peak bandwidth per GPU
- IEEE 754 single-precision and double-precision floating point
- Each Tesla C1060 GPU delivers 933 GFlops Single Precision and 78 GFlops Double Precision performance
Software Development Tools
- C language compiler, debugger, profiler, and emulation mode for debugging
- Standard numerical libraries for FFT (Fast Fourier Transform), BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines), and CuDPP (CUDA Data Parallel Primitives)
Product Details
- 3 or 4 Tesla C1060 Computing Processors with 4GB of dedicated memory per GPU
- 2.33 GHz+ Quad-core AMD Phenom or Opteron, — OR — Quad-core Intel Core 2 or Xeon
- Minimum system memory: 12 GB for 3 Tesla C1060s and 16 GB for 4 Tesla C1060s (at least 4GB per Tesla C1060)
- 12GB+ system memory (at least 4GB per Tesla C1060)
- 1200-1350 Watt Power supply
- Acoustics < 45dbA
Supported Platforms
- Microsoft® Windows® XP 64-bit and 32-bit (64-bit recommended)
- Linux® 64-bit and 32-bit (64-bit recommended)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5
- SUSE 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3
All is fine but,can it run crysis? lol
If you want to lay your hands on this ultimate mean machine, you will have to lighten your pockets by about $10,000!
December 15th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
10K? So – about the same price as a high-end Mac Pro? Bargain.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
^^ Do send me a few pics + benchmarks if you do fall for “bargain”. lol
December 16th, 2008 at 3:17 am
10k$? People spend more than that on cars.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Only 10k? Considering you may never need another computer or upgrade, thats a steal.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
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@ Author
I hope you understand internet jokes.
January 14th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I noticed that WinXP is a supported OS. Can it even handle that many cores?
January 14th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
@Frank
WinXP runs on the
“# 2.33 GHz+ Quad-core AMD Phenom or Opteron, — OR — Quad-core Intel Core 2 or Xeon”
Not on the Teslas.
January 14th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
windows xp doesnt support 12gb of ram tho does it??
January 15th, 2009 at 2:09 am
yeah buddy! and is there better than t3? hook me up.
January 15th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Damn…still can’t play Crysis…
January 15th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Hardly the first personal super computer, first retail one maybe.
look up beowolf clusters people have been making them for ages.
still nice though i just dont see the market for it.
January 16th, 2009 at 3:02 am
What does this product have to do with Tesla? Marketing I suppose. If it has Tesla’s name on it, it should be free; the way Tesla wanted things to be. Whatev.
January 16th, 2009 at 7:22 am
i think windows 64-bit can handle this kind of power so if anyone is thinking of buying this, either get linux or 64-bit windows.
January 17th, 2009 at 10:49 am
10k$? People spend more than that on cats.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:32 am
“10k$? People spend more than that on cats.”
Cats make me laugh. This computer would only make me cry.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:48 am
I’ve used one so I can talk about it a little.
People don’t seem to understand what this is. This is a rack mounted computer, not a desktop (I don’t know where that picture came from). It’s used for very specific scientific applications involving massively parallel floating point kernel calculations.
It is not the last computer you will ever need.
GPUs are highly parallel, multi-core processing units. 240 cores isn’t all that many when you compare to ATI’s hardware. They’re using 800 cores per GPU and have X2 boards (like the Radeon HD 4870 X2) with twice that amount.
Most modern graphics cards have a programmable GPU. Your desktop PC might even be 1/4 as powerful as the Tesla. If you have an Nvidia 8000-series or higher, you can use GPU-accelerated codes with CUDA. If you have an ATI Radeon HD series 2000 or higher, you can use ATI’s Stream SDK. Both will give you 10-100x speedups for certain codes. No joke. This is my day job.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
James if this was your day job, then you would have noted that Nvidia have a picture of a dektop AND a rackmount on thier site for the Tesla, also, I wouldnt call ATi anywhere near as powerful, needing almost 4 times the cores to get the same framerate. I mean take the folding@home project for example, look at the rates on that and you’ll see what I mean.
January 21st, 2009 at 1:31 pm
but can it play crisis
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 am
No, I doubt it would play Crysis very well nor is it intended to. The architecture is designed for massively parallelizable operations like finite element analysis. Crysis wouldn’t benefit much from that.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:17 pm
*drools*…i definitely need a computer like this for all of my web searching only needs
January 27th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
imagine that baby runnin’ osx! (yes, it’s possible.)
January 29th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Running OSX would be stupid.
January 29th, 2009 at 4:54 am
I farted.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:13 am
If I had the money, that’d be worth getting
January 30th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
James ( not only could you use it for scientific research, you could use it for an all in one render farm ) for the price it would make a lot of local media companies all over the world make decent 3d graphic commercials attain able.
I’m considering this for my business, for that very purpose. Maya’s Autodesk. Can use anything it wants for rendering :p
January 31st, 2009 at 4:23 am
But will it run Crysis?
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:04 am
I like it, very nice indeed…
February 18th, 2009 at 9:54 am
so basically this is useless to the average person unless you want to figure out some mathematical code, or render 3d graphics.
id rather buy 10 $1k desktops.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:42 am
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
But honestly, sudo-experts please continue to tell us what this is!
March 1st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Linux all the way baby!
Microsoft Operating System
Microsoft Operating System
Microsoft Operating System
Person on the street
March 1st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
man id love to see what crysis looks like on that thing.
we can all dream
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:58 am
When are you people going to stop falling for all of this techno-garbage? I don’t care how many processors it has. It’s still a computer, and computers and all of this “technology” is nothing but garbage.
Get a life and stop playing with toys. Learn a real trade and how to think for yourselves instead of playing around with all your cyber-junk. I bet most of you couldn’t do long division or write a complete proper sentence, but you can play computer games, right? THAT makes you a genius, right? And maybe you can “code” right? But yet, you have no common sense.
I can’t wait to see who the first fool is to pay 10K for this pile of plastic junk. Let’s see how far it gets you when you have nothing to eat and no one wants to pay you for playing games or writing stupid “code” for things that don’t produce anything of value like FOOD or MACHINERY that can create real, tangible factors of production that can grow, deliver, and distribute REAL things like FOOD and CLOTHING to feed and clothe your dumb asses.
But then again, a good commie isn’t interested in production anyway, just suckling off of the tit of the big corporations and government lackies who PWN (to use one of your retarded “words”) you, so you will all fit right in just fine with your worthless boxes of plastic anyway.
Morons.
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:46 am
I can’t ascertain whether John’s post is a joke or whether the Luddites have recruited some conservative underlings to scour this so called “interwebs” to stir up anti-technological sentiment. I’m not sure there’s a way to illustrate the conceptual failings wrapped up in John’s astonishingly thoughtless and near-sighted position that there is no value in pursuing technology because it contributes nothing physically tangible to our lives. What do you think enables the management of huge shipments of clothes an food between retail outlets? Technology and inter-connectivity. This is but small example of the clear and obvious “real-world” contributions technology allows. Secondly, how do you conclude that technology companies are necessarily more closely linked to government and conglomerates than say Kraft foods or Northrop Grumman, which are both colossal corporate entities and producers of entirely tangible goods (food and war machinery respectively). Look, I don’t have time to address every misstep you’ve made, but I’ll quickly summarize by listing some of the tenuous, if not outright fallacious generalizations you make.
1. Technology is garbage.
2. Code and Common Sense are mutually exclusive.
3. Technology is a toy
4. Code has no economic value
5. Code cannot produce tangible things (it can, both directly and indirectly)
6. There is something inherently valuable in tangible goods
7. There is something inherently value-less in intangibles (listen to a good poem, or enjoy a spring breeze. Both are intangible.)
There are far more errors in John’s argument, but I’m getting exhausted. I can’t believe I just spent the time to write this, but it needed to be done. Geeks, consider yourselves avenged.
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:59 am
John.
Crysis?
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 am
I thought the first personal sumpercomputer was the powermac g4, which is what prevented it from being exported to other countries in the 90’s? I understand that the term “super computer” has changed over time but I am fairly certain it is was the first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eb1yih5kNY
March 6th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
This is not a pc this is a beast !
March 20th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
DD said
“But honestly, sudo-experts please continue to tell us what this is!”
I assume he is referring to us Linux users when he talks about sudo-experts.
…I guess you’d have to run Linux to see the humor.
Bah. Go play with your floppies, Windorks.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Seriously 10k? For this piece of …computer or GPU monster..*sweat* I rather have my car changed!
March 28th, 2009 at 7:22 am
I really hate it when ignorant people try to post about something they know nothing about. John for instance. He came and posted on a WEBSITE over the INTERNET about how stupid those things are….technology has allowed for a massive advancement in mankind. Without the internet we would still be sending letters that take days to be delivered, slowing commerse.
John, if you read this, pay attention.
Don’t be condecending about something you dont even understand.
The very thing you were insulting is the reason you have the lifestyle you do.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:19 am
@ James, this is not the rackmount computer for data centers that they also sell, this is the desktop version. Its all on nVidia’s website.
@ everyone who’s saying will it play crysis? Yes it will, but it won’t run as awesome as you think. Nearly every benchmark ever made with multi-GPUs’ show about a 50% increase at most (if you’re lucky) to frames per second with each additional GPU regardless of the game.
@ everyone who responded to John’s comment, DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS!!!
April 4th, 2009 at 11:24 am
i am john. i like to look up things. then i realize i cant afford them so i get very angry at my self and take it out on the internet in a very unthoughtful way. my statements often create paradoxes, like how i had to get to this site by stumbling, or typing it in an address bar. i really didn’t think about how i said all that stuff was stupid, but then i realized i was taking the time to type in a forum about it. which means that i have to have an email address, which means that i have to use computers. i’m so stupid please send me all the hate mail in the world.
NOTE: i am not the original john. but this is part of the message he forgot to mention. i thought i would just finish it for him.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:48 am
try to reply these comments without the computer , oh i mean , toys , JOHN !
haha
April 27th, 2009 at 12:50 am
10k? wat car?
August 26th, 2009 at 10:18 am
10K? i could have got one of those but i got a wife instead. she doesn’t process a whole lot but man does she interface well with my existing hardware! XD
November 21st, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Thanks for the great info really useful Thanks again
November 25th, 2009 at 1:40 am
to heck with Crysis! can it get porn faster!?!
December 24th, 2009 at 9:59 am
We here in soviet russia (lol) are using cluster of cracked sony play stations 3, that costs much less than 1k$ per one. Heres some tips on why we do so:
http://nop.gw01.ru/pure_rainbow/
P.S. Sry for my english =)
June 1st, 2010 at 3:39 am
What would the difference in speed be if you hooked up like 5 PS3 together in parallel? I head the Air Force did that with like 30 or something and ran Linux. 5 PS3’s would be like $2000 plus setup costs. Seems Cheaper maybe, but what’s the speed dif?
June 3rd, 2010 at 8:04 pm
I heard the ps3 clusters dont work anymore do to some lame firmware update from sony… but jeesus this thing will NOT PLAY CRISIS, this is for massive data crunching, like tomography or studying elements and reactions.. if you want crysis get 3 gtx 480s in sli + the xtreme i7. All that in a system that wont bottleneck the sli vgas plus a nice custom watercooling system will run you upwards 8k-10k =D
June 3rd, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Btw does anybody know if 3ds max can take advantage of this kind of power/ cuda? I know there are some modded versions of gelato but ive had no success in running either of them. The power of this alone is making me want to swap to maya…
July 9th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
very nice stuff hopefully i learned from it.
August 5th, 2010 at 6:22 am
Lol what a shit PC, mines better and it only cost 2K, Fail.
August 5th, 2010 at 6:23 am
Lol that was only a joke, but NVIDIA works best with Intle CPU’s not AMD, so it is a BEAST but it Should have an intel it it
Just my 2 cents
August 31st, 2010 at 12:34 pm
he also like to lick and smell weird things to. i guess all cats had their thing thats why we need to be careful. good luck
xj