Ever dreamt in your wildest of dreams, that a supercomputer could be as compact as your personal computer’s processor unit? It is true. In our early years we were fed with images of computers as big as huge halls. But having a PC like super computer could be for real after all.

SGI has announced a new computer which it says is its line of personal supercomputers. Its high-performance however still means it uses just as much space as your average work station. It is fixed on a pedestal, with easy to use features and supports normal office power outlets. The Octane III as it is called, can have up to 80 high-performance cores and up to 1TB of memory. CPUs for the machine include Intel Xeon 5500 series, Dual-core Atom processors, and Xeon 3400 processors. The machine can be attached with a GP-GPU card from NVIDIA.

Would pricing be any less for a super computer of this nature! They start at $ 7,995.

Via: Slippery Brick, SGI

With advancements happening at hardware and software technology front its time to move beyond the haptic interfaces and experiment with the level of designer configurations. In this digital era, how about a computer that is not only wireless but also keyboard less and mouse less. Yes, pinch yourself as these days input device makers are integrating tablets PC with LCD display expertise to generate more natural drafts and inscription systems, and with the improvement of gesture input method and voice detection software, there is a practical possibility that we may have to shun our dependence upon keyboard and mouse. From here, one can draw a clear picture that it’s surely going to be a desktop for masses.

Still a designer concept, this is an alarm for manufacturers to revamp the specific areas of computer use making it adaptable for general-public and reminding computer producers to start making efforts towards mass market production needs. Hence, they need to develop computers with new input technology targeted at larger market. The product is the out product of the design challenge organized to develop a mass market desktop computer that runs via a screen minus keyboard and mouse and is accessible via pen/touch screen input and voice identification.

This compact all-in-one multi-purpose desktop computer (if developed) would be used for variety of creative and general purpose tasks i.e. Internet surfing, general homework, graphic design, digital artwork and office administration. In absence of keyboard, this offers more space for the working surface. The figurine-angled surface into the workstation base provides room for a pen and CD/DVD unit that makes it look like a parcel of a product. The intentionally huge screen is designed to reflect LCD and touch screen technology in the very near future. It is protected with a broad transparent casing and features titanium curves flow well into the working surface offering a sharp contrast with the elucidated display.

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Via TouchInteractive