The 'Personal' Supercomputer

AMAX is announcing it's done just that:

The ServMax is based on the NVIDIA Tesla c1060 GPU, with 240 processing cores per Tesla C1060 card. In a single system, Amax says, as many as 960 cores can be deployed.

List price: $4,999, according to Amax.

That's a lot of computing power to put on one desk. Consider, it's got more processing cores than a few super computers on the Top 500 List (although number of cores is only one measurement that goes in to defining a super computer.)

In any event, the ServMax certainly appears to provide a lot of juice for less than $5,000.