The World's Most Powerful Desktop Supercomputer: FASTRA II

Heard of the buzz word supercomputer? maybe. How about the world's most powerful desktop supercomputer? maybe this one will give some idea.


Here's FASTRA II, the world's most powerful desktop supercomputer from the University of Antwerp's Vision Lab that has built it.


Its features:
13GPUs, from six NVidia GTX295 dual-GPU cards
1GTX275 single-GPU card, resulting in a massive 12TFLOPS of computing power
1TB Samsung hard drive
12GB of DDR3 memory


The desktop supercomputer was custom-built to suspend the GeForce boards and a custom kernel for the CentOS Linux build that runs the design.