NVIDIA announced Wednesday a new class of “NVIDIA Tesla” processors based on a “revolutionary new graphics processing unit…that will place the power previously available only from supercomputers in the hands of every scientist and engineer. Today’s workstations will be transformed into ‘personal supercomputers.'”

The Tesla GPU features 128 parallel processors, and delivers up to 518 gigaflops of parallel computation. The NVIDIA Tesla Deskside Supercomputer is a scalable computing system that includes two NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and attaches to a PC or workstation. With multiple deskside systems, a standard PC or workstation is transformed into a personal supercomputer, delivering up to 8 teraflops of compute power to the desktop.

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