The name SuperComputer comes from the ability of this board to have up to three NVIDIA Tesla video cards installed at the same time along with a Quadro card to handle the display output. NVIDIA has a single configuration of Tesla card, the C1060. This card has 240 processing cores, 4GB of GDDR3 memory and 933GFLOP/s of processor power. The card is limited to Windows XP and Linux and as the card does not have external connectors requires another solution like the Quadro video card to provide video.
The idea of turning a mainstream motherboard into a workstation board is not a new one. ASRock adds support for the upcoming Intel Xeon 3500 series CPUs on this motherboard. The new Xeon processors are based upon the same Newhalem core as the Core i7 CPUs and should work with other X58 motherboards as well. The X58 Supercomputer also supports the Core i7 CPUs and the maximum QPI of 6.4GT/second. The memory controller has been moved to the CPU from the Southbridge matching AMD's move years ago.
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