i90807065 0 Posted November 22, 2008 I just got this in my email http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html http://www.tycrid.com/?page_id=85 This is insane! I didnt know tech was this good! One thing im trying to figure out though, is how good these would be for gaming? Either way, this is sweet! it could be even more awesome with Dave's new screen Just felt I should let people know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eraser_tr 29 Posted November 22, 2008 SLI motherboards, 4 GPUs, 8gb of memory? HOLY ****!! Hello crysis maxed at 100fps Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
commander 0 Posted November 23, 2008 Talk about power, you could have every game you got on at the same time with raesonable FPS (depends on person and number of games) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gr.Viper 131 Posted November 23, 2008 No that's a rig to install DOSBox on... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rovert97 1 Posted November 24, 2008 what the hell is a "teraflop"? i swear they are just making up words now to look even more impressive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TX3RN0BILL 3 Posted November 24, 2008 (edited) what the hell is a "teraflop"? i swear they are just making up words now to look even more impressive Flop, as described by Wikipedia: Failure (fail, phail or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering. So, if that's just one flop, then if Kiloflop is 1000 flops, mega is 1000-kilo flops, giga is 1000 mega flops, tera is 1000 giga flops... That's a very large amount of mistakes right there!!! Edited November 24, 2008 by TX3RN0BILL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Caesar 305 Posted November 24, 2008 (edited) FLOPS is FLoating point Operations Per Second. A teraFLOPS is One Trillion Floating-point Operations/Second. In other words, that sucker can calculate lots of stuff really friggin' fast. An ATI 4850 HD GPU can do 1 TeraFLOPS, a 4850X2 can do 2.4. Edited November 24, 2008 by Caesar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Firefox 13 0 Posted November 24, 2008 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? I thought quad-core and dual quad-core PCs were a tad overkill... Almost makes you wonder how high one of those would raise one's energy bill... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ONETINSOLDIER 2 Posted November 24, 2008 http://www.cray.com/Products/XMT/Product/Specifications.aspx THATS a supercomputer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
i90807065 0 Posted November 24, 2008 Ah, but is it personal (desktop) sized? Me no think so haha Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TX3RN0BILL 3 Posted November 24, 2008 (edited) FLOPS is FLoating point Operations Per Second. A teraFLOPS is One Trillion Floating-point Operations/Second. In other words, that sucker can calculate lots of stuff really friggin' fast. An ATI 4850 HD GPU can do 1 TeraFLOPS, a 4850X2 can do 2.4. I knew that. I was just posting the pessimistic meaning of the word Flop. Never forget: "To err is human - to really screw things up you need a computer!!!" Guess you didn't get the irony... Therefore: Mega-flop: a 1000-kilo mistake. Very heavy. Giga-flop: 1000 Mega-flops. Very, very, very heavy mistakes. Tera-flop: :tomato2: Edited November 24, 2008 by TX3RN0BILL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JediMaster 451 Posted November 25, 2008 "Hi, I'm a Mac." "And I'm a personal supercomputer. I've already done more work since this commercial started than you can do in a year, so shut up and go away." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WDH 0 Posted November 25, 2008 The electric bill would be slightly higher too.But,if you can afford $9000 for a computer,Who cares? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wolf65 0 Posted November 25, 2008 The electric bill would be slightly higher too.But,if you can afford $9000 for a computer,Who cares? You know, i'm really interested how much that thing eats... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Typhoid 231 Posted November 25, 2008 You know, i'm really interested how much that thing eats... you won't need a furnace - and your heating bill will be nil...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bravo2009 2 Posted November 25, 2008 (edited) "Hi, I'm a Mac.""And I'm a personal supercomputer. I've already done more work since this commercial started than you can do in a year, so shut up and go away." That's good, that actually made me LOL I just built a supercomputer on Colfax Int'l website, 16GB of RAM, about 3TB of HD space, and all graphics cards, came out to about 11-12k Edited November 25, 2008 by AOCbravo2004 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
