A personal supercomputer (PSC) is a marketing ploy used bycomputer manufacturers forhigh-performance computer systems and was a popular term in the mid-2000s to early 2010s.[1] There is no exact definition for what a personal supercomputer is. Many systems have had that label put on them like theCray CX1[2] and theApplePower Mac G4.[3] Generally, though the label is used on computers that are high endworkstations andservers and have multipleprocessors and is small enough to fit on a desk or to the side. Other terms like PSC are Desktop/deskside supercomputers and supercomputers in a box.
This is the closest thing to a formal definition of a personal supercomputer as most Computers marketed as personal supercomputers are Deskside clusters like theCray CX1. A Deskside cluster is as defined byinsideHPC.com “Deskside clusters come in a chassis that you can plug into the wall of your office, and they are designed to sit on the floor next to your desk. The chassis can hold a relatively small number of computers that are on blades, trays, or in enclosures that slide into the chassis and bundle everything together.”[4] The Blade or node are equipped with CPU/s andRAM also it may be equipped withGPU/s so that it may be used forCAD or for computation and the blade may have bays for hard drives built in.
They can be used in medical applications for processing brain and bodyscans, resulting in faster diagnosis.[5] Another application is persistentaerial surveillance where large amounts of video data need to be processed and stored.[6] Also they are used inAI fordeep learning andmachine learning. One more use is in the field ofdata analysis which requires large amounts of computational power.
