Meet the Asustek 1.1 Teraflop supercomputer! Asustek Computer unveiled its first supercomputer – desktop computer-sized ESC 1000, which uses NVIDIA graphics processors to attain speeds up to 1.1 teraflops.
FYI: One teraflop is one trillion flops (floating point operations per second), a measure of computing speed. Computers able to perform at such high speeds can be used in a variety of ways, including scientific research, image manipulation, engineering modeling or for medical purposes.
Asus’s ESC 1000 comes with a 3.33GHz Intel LGA1366 Xeon W3580 microprocessor designed for servers, along with 960 graphics processing cores from Nvidia inside three Tesla c1060 Computing Processors and one Quadro FX5800., according to a spec sheet from Asustek.
The processing power found inside the ESC 1000 has 24GB of DDR3 memory at 1333MHz along with a 500GB SATA II hard drive. The PSU is good for 1100 watts.
It is still unknown how much the supercomputer will cost, although ASUS have stated that a 5 year cost structure comes in at $14,519 USD.
Source: GoodGearGuide
