A Cool Way to Soup Up a Supercomputer

by Celeste Biever New Scientist, 26 Nov 2005 A slender card that slides into a PC will more than double the speed of the world's fastest supercomputing PC cluster while only fractionally increasing its power consumption. The 30-centimetre booster card, called Advance, can also be used with high-end graphics or scientific PCs to quadruple their speed at certain heavy-duty calculations. Read more