The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a desktop computer

Desktop computer

A desktop computer is a personal computer in a form intended for regular use at a single location, as opposed to a mobile laptop or portable computer. Early desktop computers are designed to lay flat on the desk, while modern towers stand upright...

 (personal supercomputer

Personal supercomputer

A personal supercomputer is a computer built for the demand of a powerful computer system. On the civil basis, PSCs are typically built by the user. However government computers have been built by contract companies and/or governmental experts. Although considerably more expensive than a personal...

) that is backed by Nvidia

NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

 and built by Dell

Dell

Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...

, Lenovo and other companies. It is meant to be a demonstration of the capabilities of Nvidia's Tesla

Nvidia Tesla

The Tesla graphics processing unit is nVidia's third brand of GPUs. It is based on high-end GPUs from the G80 , as well as the Quadro lineup. Tesla is nVidia's first dedicated General Purpose GPU...

 GPGPU

GPGPU

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units is the technique of using a GPU, which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the CPU...

 brand; it utilizes NVIDIA's CUDA

CUDA

CUDA or Compute Unified Device Architecture is a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia. CUDA is the computing engine in Nvidia graphics processing units that is accessible to software developers through variants of industry standard programming languages...

 parallel computing

Parallel computing

Parallel computing is a form of computation in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously, operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently . There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level,...

 architecture and is powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores, which allows it to achieve a performance up to 250 times faster than standard PCs, according to Nvidia.

As of January 2009, the Tesla computer platform delivers the best performance among all stand-alone systems being used in some distributed computing projects like SETI@home

SETI@home

SETI@home is an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence...

 or Folding@home

Folding@home

Folding@home is a distributed computing project designed to use spare processing power on personal computers to perform simulations of disease-relevant protein folding and other molecular dynamics, and to improve on the methods of doing so...

.

List of Current System Builders

• Viglen Ltd.
  Viglen
  Viglen Ltd provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers, workstations and data/voice communications equipment and services.- History :...
  
  
• AMAX
  AMAX Information Technologies
  AMAX is a privately held, ISO 9001 certified, enterprise computing solutions company that provides custom-built servers, storage, clusters, workstations and various high performance computing systems for corporate, scientific, military, educational and governmental use.- Location & Facilities :In...
  
  
• Asus
  ASUS
  ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated is a multinational computer technology and consumer electronics product manufacturer headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its product range includes motherboards, desktops, laptops, monitors, tablet PCs, servers and mobile phones...
  
  
• AVADirect
  AVADirect
  AVADirect, Inc. is an American computer manufacturing company located in Twinsburg, Ohio near Cleveland. They specialize in highly customized computer systems including Microsoft Windows and Linux servers, high-end workstations and gaming systems, business PCs, and notebooks.AVADirect is a GSA...
  
  
• BOXX
  BOXX Technologies
  BOXX Technologies is a private company manufacturing high-performance computing hardware solutions focused toward the visual effects, game development, CGI animation and broadcasting markets. The company was founded in 1996 as Digital Emulsion of Phoenix, Arizona...
  
  
• Colfax International
• Dell
  Dell
  Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...
  
  
• Lenovo
• Microway
  Microway
  Microway Inc is an American high-end computer manufacturer that makes servers and clustering products. The company was founded in 1982 to write software to support the Intel 8087. Soon thereafter, Microway Inc began to manufacture hardware add-ons for X86-based computers for use by scientists and...
  
  
• Psychsoftpc
• Western Scientific
• Sprinx Systems

External links

• Tesla Personal Supercomputer website
• Nvidia Tesla YouTube channel