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Nvidia unveils Tesla, new Cell killer in supercomputing applications

Nvidia today announced Tesla, a third product line next to the GeForce and Quadro graphics products. The company aims to use Tesla cards and the massive floating point horsepower of its graphics processors to take over a portion of the lucrative supercomputing market.

marison6909d ago

Maybe they could explode Folding@Home and other supercomputing projects to new highs.

Annihilator6908d ago

use a GPU as a CPU they would have done it years ago.

Cartesian3D6908d ago

they beat Cell before with 8800 series and even with X1900 series..all of them has more FLOPS than cell

but cell has better connectivity and more performance in PARALLEL perocessing(and general one) .. like AMD processors cuz of Hyper transport..

AMD use that incredible connectivity to beat Intel in supercomputing Area..

EXAMPLE: 2 xeon are 40% faster than 1
but 2 opteron are 70% faster than 1 opteron ( I saw these numbers in ANANDtech.com )

so we must wait and see who will make best super computer , not who will make best chip .... and Nvidia isnt first... ATI and AMD did the same before with steam processor.

marison6908d ago

GPU as a CPU. Folding@Home, per example, use all CPU and GPU resources on Folding@Home.

ATI GPU Articles:
http://folding.stanford.edu...

They use RSX in PS3. Not only Cell. RSX could have a major part, or at least a considerable one, in all Folding@Home processing.

Cartesian3D6908d ago (Edited 6908d ago )

I said ATI and AMD did the same before ..

but I said SUPERcomputer is about more than thousonds of CPU or GPUs.. and CONNECTIVITY is the most important part for making that..

thats why we must see a REAL supercomputer to see who will win ..

EDIT :
@marison

thx bro for your info.. my bubbles finished.. :P so I put thx in this comment. hope u see it.. gl

marison6908d ago

And connectivity is a real issue. Cell have plenty of them, but in some cases there are different needs.

Some applications need lots of processing power, but the data that enters in the pipeline and the results are not proportional. Folding@Home and SETI@Home are some examples from that type of application.

The initial data, positions of atoms of a protein molecule. is only a bunch of bytes.

But they have to execute transformation of 3D position of all atoms, a lot of times, and have to test if they are instable or not.

The results are the stable configuration of each protein. More bytes than before, but still few.

anh_duong6908d ago (Edited 6908d ago )

where in the original article does it mention the word cell let alone cell killer?? isn't the headline writer here using some artistic license? report the news as it is not some made up headline design to create anothe fanboy war. if anything the articles makes direct comparison with ati and intel why isn't the title more intel ati killer?

NINJARIFIK6908d ago

i dont even think the word cell was even mentioned. fnbysm!

Firewire6908d ago

Cell Killer? What a Stretch!
for shame xbot for shame!

gta_cb6908d ago

got to say i agree about the article title, should have been the same as the title on the story page.

"Nvidia unveils Tesla, moves into supercomputing"

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio21d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing20d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9220d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit20d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing20d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9220d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."