GPU vendor NVIDIA announced at SC08 in Austin, TX this week the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which marries a conventional desktop PC with add-in Tesla C1060 GPU-based add-in cards. The company has signed up OEM partners - including Dell - worldwide to integrate the Tesla card and provide complete systems to end users. The goal is to provide cluster-level HPC compute power for less than $10,000.

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This past week has seen Microsoft making the headlines with its plans to enter the cloud computing space, as well as for Windows 7, the planned replacement for its desktop Vista operating system. Both are likely to have significant impacts on its business and customers, and both are at least partly defensive moves in different ways. Less of a headline but just as interesting for financial IT shops was the preview it presented of Project Velocity, its entry into the distributed caching world.

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Google will today launch a beta version of its Chrome web browser in 100 countries. Commenting on the development, Google executives stated in a blog post that “What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.” Initially available for Windows only, Linux and Apple Mac versions will be released in the future.

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