The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a desktop computer (personal supercomputer) that is backed by Nvidia and built by various hardware vendors.^[1] It is meant to be a demonstration of the capabilities of Nvidia's Tesla GPGPU brand; it utilizes Nvidia's CUDA parallel computing architecture and is powered by up to 2688 parallel processing cores per GPGPU,^[2] which allow it to achieve speeds up to 250 times faster than standard PCs, according to Nvidia.