02.06.2008 07:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Due to the GPU, a PC costing $5300 performs as well as a supercomputer

Source : TGdailyNVidia is making loud and strong claims; soon graphic processors will surpass the main CPU and will be used for the main part of calculations relegating the others to the not very glorious role of distributors of tasks. To illustrate this assertion, Belgian scientists have assembled a configuration almost available to the general public containing 4 NVidia video cards, each equipped with two GPU (of Geforce 9800 GX2), and functioning together in Quad SLI. They succeeded with this configuration costing $5300 to perform better than a supercomputer costing 4,6 million dollars bought in 2005 and containing 512 processors. For their tests they used software for tomography (medical imagery) and they succeeded in creating an image in 52,2 seconds with the PC that took 67,4 seconds with the large dedicated machine. Of course, this is only valid under certain particular conditions, however this is a signi

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