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12/15/2009

FASTRA II: The World's Most Powerful Desktop Supercomputer

University of Antwerp's Vision Lab has built FASTRA II, the world's most powerful desktop supercomputer. Featuring "13GPUs, from six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards, and one GTX275 single-GPU card, resulting in a massive 12TFLOPS of computing power." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

A 1TB Samsung hard drive, 12GB of DDR3 memory, and [a] Lian-Li case. The only modifications are a custom cage to suspend the GeForce boards and a custom kernel for the CentOS Linux build that runs the design.
[via Ohgizmo - UC]

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So, whats Crysis run like on that beast?
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