The world's first personal supercomputer is 25 times faster than your average PC -- a technological breakthrough which could bring 'lightning speeds' to the next generation of home computers.
The Tesla supercomputer, designed by US-based company NVIDIA, is priced from Rs 288,000 to Rs 576,000 (4,000-8,000 pounds), and looks much like your ordinary PC.
According to scientists, the new machine will revolutionise the way researchers and medical professionals carry out their work. For instance, it will allow doctors to process the results of brain and body scans much more quickly and tell patients within hours whether they have a tumour.
David Kirk, the chief scientist at NVIDIA, said in a statement: "Pretty much anything that you do on your PC that takes a lot of time can be accelerated with this. These supercomputers can improve the time it takes to process info by 1,000 times." "If you imagine it takes a week to get a result (from running an experiment), you can only do it 52 times a year. If it takes you minutes, you can do it constantly, and learn just as much in a day."
Scientists say that the machine can help researchers discover cures for diseases, such as cancer and malaria, much more quickly than using traditional research methods.
This is because the device lets them run hundreds of thousands of simulations to create a shortlist of the drugs that are most likely to offer the potential for a cure, The Daily Telegraph reported.
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