Fw: Researchers create supercomputer with four GeForce 9800 GX2 cards

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It's far from the first supercomputer created with the help of some
gaming hardware, but this rig built by a group of researchers from the
University of Antwerp is certainly impressive enough in its own right,
with it employing four of NVIDIA's high-end GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics
cards (which combined pack eight GPUs) to help develop new
computational methods for tomography. Dubbed the FASTRA, the system
also packs an AMD Phenom 9850 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 750GB hard
drive, all of which is powered by a 1,500W power supply (and tastefully
lit up with some blue LEDs). That apparently lets 'em do calculations
that previously took an hour in just a few seconds, not to mention
finally get a decent frame rate in Crysis. Be sure to check out the
video after the break for a thorough (and more entertaining than it
should be) overview of the system.

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