Perhaps it was inevitable that someone would build a Personal Supercomputer some day, and
AMAX is announcing it's done just that:
AMAX's ServMax PSC solution transforms a workstation into a cluster, with support for up to 960 processing cores and 4 TeraFlops in a single workstation.
AMAX's ServMax PSC is a cluster in a box. It is optimized for scientific computing, delivering up to 15x cost savings and 15x lower power than traditional 1U rack-optimized servers. They are ideal for life sciences, geosciences, engineering & sciences, molecular biology, medical diagnostics, electronic design automation (EDA), government and defense, visualization, financial modeling, and oil & gas applications.
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.
