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05/30/2008

9800 Graphics Card

9800 Graphics Card

The FASTRA supercomputer boasts four NVIDIA 9800 X2 graphics cards for "a total of eight GPUs with 1,024 stream processors" that "perform as fast as 350 modern CPU cores." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Looking at new computational methods for tomography - a technique used by medical scanners to create 3D images - University of Antwerp researchers have built a budget supercomputer
[via Gizmodo - FASTRA]

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Posted at 05/30/2008 11:38am by zshift
this is amazing. I remember about a year or two ago when scientists were amazed at rendering tomographic images in a week or so with equipment less than $10K. now its about $7K-$8K and takes less than 30 seconds to render. Great work guys!
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