NVIDIA has announced a high-performance computing design for workstations based on company’s Tesla graphic processors. The computing designs are basically prototypes for supercomputers.

The company is pegging it as the Personal Supercomputer as the design will use up to four Tesla C1060 GPUs, each with 240 processing cores. Each of the graphics cards slips into a PCI Express slot.

The C1060 GPU was introduced by company in June that offers the speed of 1 teraflop computational operations a second, and 4 GB of memory.

The list of System builders and resellers supporting the NVIDIA’s supercomputer are many including Amax, Armari, Asustek, Azken Muga, Boxx, CAD2, CADNetwork, Carri, Colfax, Comptronic, Concordia, Connoisseur, Dell, Dospara, E-Quattro, JRTI, Lenovo, Littlebit, Meijin, Microway, Sprinx, Sysgen, Transtec, Tycrid, Unitcom, Ustar, Viglen, and Western Scientific. Starting prices for the systems are less than $10,000, according to NVIDIA.

NVIDIA and rival Advanced Micro Devices are aggressively pushing their GPUs for high-performance computing.

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