Thursday, November 09, 2006

New Nvidia Chip Steps Closer to Supercomputing in the PC - New York Times

Amazing... 

A $90 million supercomputer made for nuclear weapons simulation cannot yet be rivaled by a single PC chip for a serious video gamer. But the gap is closing quickly.

Indeed, a new breed of consumer-oriented graphics chips have roughly the brute computing processing power of the world’s fastest computing system of just seven years ago. And the latest advance came Wednesday when the Nvidia Corporation introduced its next-generation processor, capable of more than three trillion mathematical operations per second.

Source: New Nvidia Chip Steps Closer to Supercomputing in the PC - New York Times

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