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December 14th, 2009, 21:40
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The researchers at the University of Antwerp's Vision Lab caused quite a stir last year (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/researchers-create-supercomputer-with-four-geforce-9800-gx2-card/2) when they built a supercomputer with four high-end NVIDIA graphics cards, but it looks like they've truly stepped up their game for their followup: a supercomputer that packs no less than thirteen GPUs. That, as you might have guessed, presented a few new challenges, but after wrangling some flexible PCI cables into a specially-made case and loading up a custom BIOS courtesy of ASUS, they were apparently able to get six dual-GPU NVIDIA GTX295 cards and one single-GPU GTX275 card up and running with only a few hiccups. As before, the big advantage with this approach is that you get an enormous amount of computing power for a relatively small cost -- twelve teraflops for less than €6,000, to be specific. Head on past the break for a pair of videos showing the thing off, and hit up the link below for the complete details (including some jaw dropping benchmarks).
Continue reading University of Antwerp stuffs 13 GPUs into FASTRA II supercomputer (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/university-of-antwerp-stuffs-13-gpus-into-fastra-ii-supercompute/)
University of Antwerp stuffs 13 GPUs into FASTRA II supercomputer (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/university-of-antwerp-stuffs-13-gpus-into-fastra-ii-supercompute/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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The researchers at the University of Antwerp's Vision Lab caused quite a stir last year (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/researchers-create-supercomputer-with-four-geforce-9800-gx2-card/2) when they built a supercomputer with four high-end NVIDIA graphics cards, but it looks like they've truly stepped up their game for their followup: a supercomputer that packs no less than thirteen GPUs. That, as you might have guessed, presented a few new challenges, but after wrangling some flexible PCI cables into a specially-made case and loading up a custom BIOS courtesy of ASUS, they were apparently able to get six dual-GPU NVIDIA GTX295 cards and one single-GPU GTX275 card up and running with only a few hiccups. As before, the big advantage with this approach is that you get an enormous amount of computing power for a relatively small cost -- twelve teraflops for less than €6,000, to be specific. Head on past the break for a pair of videos showing the thing off, and hit up the link below for the complete details (including some jaw dropping benchmarks).
Continue reading University of Antwerp stuffs 13 GPUs into FASTRA II supercomputer (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/university-of-antwerp-stuffs-13-gpus-into-fastra-ii-supercompute/)
University of Antwerp stuffs 13 GPUs into FASTRA II supercomputer (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/university-of-antwerp-stuffs-13-gpus-into-fastra-ii-supercompute/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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