It's a 5970 with the GPUs set to 5870 clock speeds, just like the Asus Area. Asus called their version a 5870 X2, going back to AMD's old naming convention. Sapphire's 5970 Toxic clocked the GPUs higher yet. I'm not sure what XFX has done with the cooler, but they don't seem to have gone three slots like Asus and Sapphire did, and I'd worry about their ability to keep the card properly cooled.
Besides, NASA probably wouldn't use high end consumer graphics cards that are designed for gaming. For engineering stuff, they may need professional graphics cards like these:
Those are basically a GeForce GTX 280 and a Radeon HD 5870, respectively, with a different BIOS and different drivers. Or they might use GPU compute stuff, they may use something like this:
That's basically a Radeon HD 4870 packaged differently. It looks like New Egg doesn't sell Tesla cards or newer FireStream cards; otherwise, I'd link those instead.
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It's a 5970 with the GPUs set to 5870 clock speeds, just like the Asus Area. Asus called their version a 5870 X2, going back to AMD's old naming convention. Sapphire's 5970 Toxic clocked the GPUs higher yet. I'm not sure what XFX has done with the cooler, but they don't seem to have gone three slots like Asus and Sapphire did, and I'd worry about their ability to keep the card properly cooled.
If NASA was using this you can bet the farm that someone would be thumping their chests to increase sales.
NASA is part of the government and looks at millions of dollars for specialized hardware, not thousand or so.
On the opposite side of that coin, those in the know informed me that F-14 Tomcats [military jets] at one time used Intel Pentium CPUs ...
Intel Core i7 7700K, MB is Gigabyte Z270X-UD5
SSD x2, 4TB WD Black HHD, 32GB RAM, MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning LE video card
Besides, NASA probably wouldn't use high end consumer graphics cards that are designed for gaming. For engineering stuff, they may need professional graphics cards like these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133253
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195094
Those are basically a GeForce GTX 280 and a Radeon HD 5870, respectively, with a different BIOS and different drivers. Or they might use GPU compute stuff, they may use something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195081
That's basically a Radeon HD 4870 packaged differently. It looks like New Egg doesn't sell Tesla cards or newer FireStream cards; otherwise, I'd link those instead.