Which Board Member is going to be first?

slowcoach · 08-04-2009, 20:07

Power to the people....

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_c...solutions.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvi...uter,6616.html

**Paul** · 08-04-2009, 20:10

Hmmmm.

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Prices vary depending on configuration, but expect to pay around $10,000 for your own personal supercomputer.

I think I'll wait a while

08-04-2009, 20:10

It certainly will not be me. No need for this in the home

Ignitionnet · 08-04-2009, 20:38

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It is pretty clear that the Tesla personal supercomputer is not designed for PC gaming, but rather for highly computational research and professional work.

Not really much use for it in the home.

boroboi · 08-04-2009, 21:56

Not to mention it has no video out and will never have drivers to support 3D games.

08-04-2009, 21:59

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Originally Posted by boroboi

Not to mention it has no video out and will never have drivers to support 3D games.

It will have some kind of video out surely just as not part of the Tesla cards. It says it has PCI E interface so you could just plug your own in

The images on the Nvidia site show it with monitors

boroboi · 08-04-2009, 22:05

It is a PCI-e chip yeah, but its sort of a dedicated GPGPU, in the sence of 'CPU'. It's not designed to be connected to a monitor

08-04-2009, 22:12

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mother...perComputer/p1

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You also need to include a fourth graphics card in the shape of a Quadro so you have somewhere to connect your displays et voila you have your own Super Computer

http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index....id=943&page=11

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ASRock has added all of the things you'd expect from a mainstream motherboard.eSATA, plenty of onboard fanbuses, and heatpipe NB cooling. ASRock has utilized the full capabilities of the X58 chipset, including full SLI and CrossFireX support, and the capability of 24 gigs of memory. The X58 SuperComputer is a full-featured motherboard, and has all of ASRock's unique features too.]

boroboi · 08-04-2009, 22:57

Still, it has no Video out, doesn't have driver support for games, which is why it won't work with games and it won't work in conjunction with any other GPU for games support.

It's a dedicated GPGPU, it sits in your PC useful for Folding and CUDA computing aswell as other GPGPU related tasks.

All the "Supercomputer" board is mainly for enthusiasts who want their own number crunching rigs, it's basically for the more money than sense people. You'll have a super computer in you're own office, practically.

Either way, for gaming it's completely pointless. Vista/W7 has support for a maximum of 4 GPU's for support in SLI, or rather, that limitation is DirectX based.

Of course it will support your gamer's GPU's, but other than those reasons ive stated, any normal gamer has no reason to buy one. I think i read a few months ago it has 7 PCI-e interfaces, which is overkill for anyone who doesn't use this for a folding rig or other GPGPU tasts.