NCSA Video on Demand -- Illinois students build 33 teraflop cluster from GPUs

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Illinois students build 33 teraflop cluster from GPUs

With guidance from ECE professor Wen-mei Hwu, CS professor Bill Gropp, and cluster experts at NCSA, students got hands-on experience building their own supercomputer with NVIDIA graphics-processing units. They hope to rank high on the Green500 list of energy-efficient supercomputers.

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Posted: November 11, 2010

Running time: 1:48
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PC users: Right-click the Quicktime link and select 'Save Target As...'
Mac users: Press the 'Control' key, click the Quicktime link and select 'Download linked file'