The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a

desktop computer A desktop computer (often abbreviated desktop) is a personal computer designed for regular use at a single location on or near a desk due to its size and power requirements. The most common configuration has a case that houses the power supply ...

( personal supercomputer) that is backed by

Nvidia Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...

and built by various hardware vendors. It is meant to be a demonstration of the capabilities of Nvidia's Tesla

GPGPU General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditiona ...

brand; it utilizes Nvidia's

CUDA CUDA (or Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general purpose processing, an approach ...

parallel computing Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different f ...

architecture and is powered by up to 2688 parallel processing cores per GPGPU,NVIDIA Tesla server solutions
/ref> which allow it to achieve speeds up to 250 times faster than standard PCs, according to Nvidia.

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Tesla Personal Supercomputer
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Nvidia Tesla YouTube channel
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