November 19, 200817 yr This beauty will deliver FSX to extremes.Has 960 parallel processing cores10K$ UShttp://www.dailytech.com/NVIDIA+Launches+T...rticle13471.htmAny rich folk interested in this?250 times faster than the desktop workstation of today
November 20, 200817 yr >This beauty will deliver FSX to extremes.>Has 960 parallel processing cores>>10K$ US>>>http://www.dailytech.com/NVIDIA+Launches+T...rticle13471.htm>>>Any rich folk interested in this?>>250 times faster than the desktop workstation of todayJust to put this in perspective:This is a professional level 4-way SLI system consisting of yes, 4 Geforce GTX 280s (renamed as Tesla C1060). It will not accelerate your Flight Sim experience any more than a box you build with just one GTX 280. In fact, it may not even run Flight Sim due to the fact that it runs an entirely different graphics driver than the Geforce line of consumer graphics cards. Also, only Linux Operating Systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse 10.x) and Windows XP 32/64 are supported so that complicates things further.
November 20, 200817 yr Anxiously waiting for the 2FPS gain, yet probably offset by the -6 FPS by running in SLI :)I digress, and kidding aside, sounds like a neat box.Etienne
November 20, 200817 yr Author probably only for math and scientific computing, not for the type of play FSX is into, whatever that may be....
November 20, 200817 yr " Up to 960 parallel processing cores can be placed inside the system. "Oh, you wanted the processors too? Gee, that'll cost you a little extra!
November 20, 200817 yr Everything past Core0 and part of Core1 will go to autogen and terrain, nothing else and only up to 256 cores... and then you must have to OS license to access that many cores.multiple GPUs are as wothless as boobs on a bull to FSX with the exception of very high resolution and 16-32x AAframes will not increase with MGPUFS11 may be different..
November 20, 200817 yr The "parallel processing cores" referenced are nothing more than the individual shader processors (or stream processors, as Nvidia likes to call them) hence the number 960 as there are 240 SPs per Geforce GTX 280/Tesla C1060. These are not general purpose processor cores that would enable greater FS performance, sadly.
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