The main advantage of a pre-loaded OS...

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> If nvidia could manage to grab 10% of the ARM market for cell phones and
> such especially the high end models that do lots of multimedia stuff,
> they are going to be making some decent money.

And there's a server-relevant side to this, as well.

Amazon's EC2 service is renting this out as service.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

Look for:
   "Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large Instance"

What they notably include, GPU-wise, is:
   2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs

They characterize this as being for "high performance rendering
needs," but there are likely other use cases possible, and if this
sort of thing takes off, it certainly offers NVIDIA an expanded market
in server deployments where they generally have had *no* real place
thus far.

I'll note that there's one product relevant at Canada Computers:
<http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_336&item_id=030863>

This motherboard can accept up to 4 Tesla GPUs.  (Mind you, it's not
evident you can buy anything from Canada Computers to *populate* the
slots...)

Also interesting, and *much* pricier, is this 448-core add on board:
<http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7194549&CatId=4044>

At about $4000, this won't likely go on your desktop :-).  But this
would be *mighty* interesting to get sold into server space...
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