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Nvidia is coming out a massively multi-threaded GPU based architecture. Each GPU will have 128 processors per core providing upto 500 gigaflops of performance. Multiples of these can be connected to a host via PCI Express for more power. Their server solution at the high end gives you 2 teraflops peak performance.
Some selling points:
- Industry’s first massively multi-threaded architecture with a 128-processor computing core
- World’s only C-language development environment for the GPU
- A suite of developer tools (C-compiler, debugger, performance profiler, optimized libraries)
- Largest ISV development community for GPU Computing applications
- Seamlessly able to fit into existing HPC environments
One of the white papers available on Nvidia’s website claims a 240X performance increase for the molecular dynamics program NAMD.
If you’re interested in this kind of stuff, gpgpu is a good place to check.