Tesla Personal Supercomputers

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:49:23AM +1100, James McDonald wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm curious if our resident NVidia Employees have seen / used one of
>>>  these new "Tesla Personal Supercomputers"?
>>>
>>> http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24758514-5014239,00.html
>>
>> Everyday. Multiple times. They are what they are positioned to be.
>
> So does that mean you think people (universities, research environments,
> moderate-sized businesses) will buy them?  Of course, probably also making a
> commitment to some sort of expensive software packages that take advantage
> of such a platform (otherwise why bother)?

Universities, research environments, & moderate-sized businesses
already are buying them.

CUDA software is free (assuming that you have the hardware):
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html

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