Tom's Hardware Guide has a story showing that the good old workstation may not be completely extinct: Clearspeed will demonstrate a PCI Express co-processor add-in card that promises a floating point performance of up to 50 GFlops. That is nearly 10 times the performance of a standard desktop PC.

Alot of high-end desktop PCs have recently took on the rool of the traditional workstation in the past few years. Competition has been fierce in hardware and software as it pushed speed levels of enthusiast PCs in an area that made it difficult for the expensive workstation systems to show their added benefits. A new innovation could set the workstation apart from the consumer desktop once more and bridge the widening gap to supercomputers.

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