Nvidia is shipping the Tesla C1060 card today for $1699.  Basically it is a GPU based 4 teraflop computer expansion PCI Express x16 gen 2 card that you can add to a desktop or workstation computer:   http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/11/18/Nvidia_announces_personal_supercomputer_1.html    Check out the specs!  240 cores running at 1.3 Ghz!   http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_c1060.html Advertisements

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) just finished setting up the world’s fastest computer.  180,000 cores, 362 TB of RAM, and 10 PB of storage (that’s petabytes).  The Cray XT Jaguar.  Now that my laptop is faster than the Cray-1 (circa 1976), can I expect to have 200K cores and 1/3 PB of RAM…