In 1989, the most powerful supercomputer was known as the ETA10-G/8 and it was the world’s fastest computer and needed an entire room to its self. Today’s average computer has Intel 2 Duo CPU which costs $225, and is already more powerful than the ETA10-G/8 supercomputer which, at the time, cost between $25 Million and $30 Million.

20 years may sound like a long time but this progress has not slowed down. Computers have continued to become more powerful and cheaper. You could see this progress even in the everyday devices you use today like your cell phone, mp3 players, or your portable video game system. All these items already have more power than computers did in the year 2000. Computers continue to break barriers - what was yesterday's super computers are today’s desktop computer, and today’s desktop computer is tomorrow’s new portable device.

As technology's growth continues, jumping forward and opening up new possibilities, imagine how it will impact your life... what if your computer was 250 times more powerful? What if you had a supercomputer at your disposal?

Recently Nvidia, a company which creates high performance video cards (probably the ones found in your video game system), has released the NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer. This Supercomputer is 250 times more powerful than your average computer, and takes up as much space as the one you probably have at home now. This computer costs about $10,000, which although extremely expensive, is still a lot cheaper than conventional supercomputers whose cost once went into the millions and took up an entire room. The new supercomputer is used mostly by the educational and scientific community to make complex simulations, predict weather conditions, make computer graphics more realistic, and improve artificial intelligence. This technology, which is unavailable to the average person, could eventually be the computer we each have at our desks.

One theory often associated with this exponential increase of computational power is known as Moore’s Law which was theorized by Gordon Moore who is one of the co-founders of Intel. The LAW predicts that computational power will double every and reduce in size by half every couple years.This Law has been consistent since 1958 and is expected to go on for at least another decade. It is predicted that by 2013 the power of our supercomputers will be able simulate a human brain.

Given all this information what would you do if you had a supercomputer?