Collaborating with Nvidia and Taiwan's National Chao Tung University, Asus has constructed and now unveiled the ESC 1000 desktop-sized supercomputer. Asus' machine is enclosed in a 445 x 217.5 x 545 mm chassis and features a 3.33 GHz Intel Xeon W3580 CPU, 24GB of RAM, plus a Quadro FX 5800 graphics card and no less than three Tesla c1060 cards for a total of 960 Processing Cores and 1.1 TeraFlops of computing power.



Also boasting a 500GB hard drive and a 1100W power supply, the ESC 1000 is expected to be used for things like scientific research, image manipulation and engineering modeling.

Asus said that the compact supercomputer is ready to be released but it has yet to give a date for when that will happen. The ESC 1000's final pricing s also unknown.


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