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A team of Belgian scientist working on 3d medical imagery developed, in collaboration with Tones.be and ASUS, the world's most powerful desktop computer with performances equivalent of a moderate cluster.
The computer relies on the computing power of 13 GPU working simultaneously. GPUs originally meant for graphic rendering are becoming used in new fields like scientific computation or cryptography.
FASTRA specs:
- 13 GPUS " six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards, and one GTX275 single-GPU card. "
- 4 power supplies
- OS Linux
- cost < 6 000 euros
