For anyone with some money to burn, of course, because 3 Teraflops aren't cheap. How did they reach this computing level, you ask? Basically by cheating. The processing power of this workstation doesn't come from the two quad core Xeon 5335 CPUs it has, but rather from six Tesla C870 cards..

Each Tesla GPU is able to provide up to 518 Gigaflops, as much as the GeForce 8800 GTS is based on, but with twice the memory (1.5 GB). This is way more number crunching than the 8 Intel cores can do together.

Interesting progress in the supercomputing arena, no doubt, but you will be surely disappointed to hear that the price for the standard configuration (case side panel included) is $24,995. At least, we can use the waiting time looking at the list of CUDA compatible programs to grow (right now, all that power would do you little good).

Link: OverclockersClub.

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