Amd demonstrates their first” Teraflop in a Box” system last week. Being a significant milestone for the chip manufacturer no wonder they are enthusiastic about the possibilities of this technology.

“The technology AMD demonstrated today is just one example of how the ‘New’ AMD is changing the game for our industry,” said Dave Orton, executive vice president of visual media business at AMD. “Today, teraflop computing capability is largely reserved for the supercomputing space. But now that “Teraflop-in-a-Box” is a reality, AMD can deliver an order of magnitude increase in performance.”

At present the fastest of the high performance servers can crunch out about 100-billion calculations-per-second. But the system from AMD was just powered by a single Opteron processor along side two R600’s running on Windows XP Professional. This technology is a welcome sign for companies and institutions that require huge amount of computational power. Well who wouldn’t love to have a teraflop of power under his desktop.

From press release