] An ordinary desktop PC outfitted with six PCI cards, ] each containing four of the chips, would perform at ] about 600 gigaflops (or more than half a teraflop). ] At this level of performance, the PC would qualify as one ] of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. ] "At 3 watts, you could put it in a PCMCIA card," said ] McIntosh-Smith. "With two chips on a PC Card, you can ] have 50 gigaflops on a laptop, running off a battery. ] That's equivalent to a small Linux cluster on your ] notebook." Its the FPU from hell! Wired News: Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer |