NVIDIA PERSONAL SUPERCOMPUTERS
CHECK OUT THE SPECS ON THESE SYSTEMS. 960 CORES ?
A CRUNCHERS DREAM !!!
ANYBODY GOT $15,000 TO SPEND?
PERHAPS THE DIRECTION COMPUTES ARE HEADED ???
THEY WILL BE "AFFORDABLE" IN 5 YEARS ORR LESS

http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tesla_s1070_us.html

A GOOD VIDEO ON THE TECHNOLOGY
NVIDIA Tesla C1060 Computing Processor

It is not really a supercomputer..... In fact 960 cores because there are several GPU inside (How many ? 2 GTX295 ?)
For BOINC telsa is useless....too expensive. The GPU are just normal GPU. It is cheaper to do it by our own.
But why it is so expensive if it is just a regular PC with GPUs inside ? The drivers ... ! It is specially build for that !
So it can be very useful for pro, not really for us..

I kinda agree, I did a build a few months ago, a I7 with a gtx 280, and 2 gtx 260's. That machine has 648+8 cpu cores. It is not a supercomputer, but it sure kills anything I have ever had before. I think if a guy wanted to build the ultimate cruncher it would be a i7 with that new asus 7 pcie slot motherboard, you could throw in 7 gtx 295's for a total of 3368 cores. Doing some rough math that thing could get a rac at gpugrid of around 200000+(5000-10000) in the cpu stuff. I am sure someone out there will do it. All I have to do is sell off the 5 computers I have now, do 5 of those, then get over a million a day. MMMMM only need the 6/49 to come in, cuz its around $5000 each to build. Oh well a guy can dream.

Wow...with 7 slots...Woaah !!
Well 5000$.... May be later... when it will accessible ^^
Anyway, we don't need pci x16 to crunch. x8 is enough in fact !
Do you know any MB with a lot of 8x ? (Cheaper than with x16 I hope)

From the ASUS website:

P6T7 WS SuperComputer

"No matter what your preference is, seven PCI-E Gen2 x16 Slots gives you the sufficient I/O interfaces to fulfill your demand for graphic or computing solution. You’ll be able to run both multi-GPU setups. The board features SLI/CrossFire on Demand technology, not only supporting up to three graphics cards in a 3-Way Geforce SLI or CrossFireX configuration but also supporting up to four dual-GPU graphics cards. Whichever path you take, you can be assured of jaw-dropping graphics at a level previously unseen."

Looks like you have your choice of 6 single GPU graphics cards or 4 dual-GPU graphics cards. I may be wrong, but it looks like not all 7 slots seem to be usable at once. If you're looking at simply duing the 6 single-GPU choice, you can save a few bucks and stick to the [url=http://ca.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=179&l3=815&l4=0&model=2697&modelmenu=1]
P6T6 WS Revolution
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Woweee!
I dont even want to think of the kind of heat a box like that would generate... or how much your electricity company is going to love you.