Desktop supercomputer performance 12 teraflops

Engineers from the University of Antwerp in Belgium showed light to their compact Fastra II supercomputer. Outwardly, he is an ordinary system unit, but it truly contains a colossal computing power of 12 teraflops.

The system is equipped with a Core i7 processor with a clock frequency of 2.66 GHz, as well as six dual-processor Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 and a GeForce GTX 275 card with one graphics chip. Thus, the supercomputer received 13 powerful graphics chips, which together with the NVidia CUDA technology made it possible to achieve great performance.
According to the creators, Fastra II is almost four times faster than its predecessor, the first Fastra model, based on four NVIDIA 9800GX2.
The computer runs on the ASUS P6T7 WS mainboard, with 12 GB of RAM and 1 TB on the hard disk, and also uses 5 power supplies: one for 1500 W and four for 450 W. The operating system used was CentOS Linux OS.
The system plans to find application mainly in medicine, where with the help of X-ray images it is possible to create a three-dimensional model of human bones and organs, which will make it possible to more accurately diagnose diseases.
The computer cost creators at a cost of less than 6,000 euros.


Sources:
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