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Taiwanese motherboard and PC maker Asustek is apparently getting ready to jump into the personal supercomputer market with a glorified deskside supercomputer that it has developed in conjunction with graphics chip maker Nvidia and the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Asustek Computer, known by gearheads for its Asus …

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  1. Goat Jam
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    Timing FAIL

    Somebody should tell Asus that Vista has been superceded!

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  2. Gene Cash Silver badge
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    Thank you, El Reg

    For calling "bullshit" on the performance numbers. Everyone else is trumpeting it as something Los Alamos would want for nuclear sims.

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  3. david 12 Silver badge

    No good as a workstation

    Since Excel is based on Double Precision data cells, we can say that that this would be a very poor choice for a traditional business workstation. Maybe ok for Word and Powerpoint.

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  4. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    When 234Gigflops inn't a supercomputer

    We've come a very long way from the Cray 1.

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  5. Alastair McFarlane
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    1.1 teraflops

    "the ESC1000 delivers 2.8 teraflops at single precision and 234 gigaflops at double precision"

    You *could* get 1.1 teraflops by adding those two together and dividing by two...

    I mean an average for that sort of thing would need to be skewed towards whichever it did more often, but a straightforward mean would give you the figure required.

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  6. b4k4
    WTF?

    errr.

    You *could* get 1.1 teraflops by adding those two together and dividing by two...

    by could, do you mean in another universe where 2 x 1.1 doesn't make 2.2?

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Performance

    It is extremely difficult to get 100% performance out of these devices. The Teraflop ratings they are given are for an ideal situation where the alu's are fully occupied across all threads and the max mem bandwith is being achieved.

    The class of problems which can get you to this level of performance is rather small...

    However for their available processing power they use a substantially lower amount of power than a cluster of cpu's, but are admittedly harder to program efficiently.

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