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.
To speed up an ordinary chip with a single processing core, you have to make individual transistors switch much faster, which uses more power and produces far more waste heat. But the Advance card combines 96 processing cores on one chip, which means it can carry out 96…
