<s>
A	O
personal	B-Device
supercomputer	I-Device
(	O
PSC	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
marketing	O
ploy	O
used	O
by	O
computer	O
manufacturers	O
for	O
high-performance	B-Architecture
computer	I-Architecture
systems	O
and	O
was	O
a	O
popular	O
term	O
in	O
the	O
mid	O
2000s	O
to	O
early	O
2010s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
no	O
exact	O
definition	O
for	O
what	O
a	O
personal	B-Device
supercomputer	I-Device
is	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
systems	O
have	O
had	O
that	O
label	O
put	O
on	O
them	O
like	O
the	O
Cray	B-Device
CX1	I-Device
and	O
the	O
Apple	O
Power	B-Device
Mac	I-Device
G4	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Generally	O
,	O
though	O
the	O
label	O
is	O
used	O
on	O
computers	O
that	O
are	O
High	O
end	O
Workstations	B-Device
and	O
Servers	B-Application
and	O
have	O
multiple	O
processors	B-General_Concept
and	O
is	O
small	O
enough	O
to	O
fit	O
on	O
a	O
desk	O
or	O
to	O
the	O
side	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
terms	O
like	O
PSC	O
are	O
Desktop/deskside	O
supercomputers	B-Architecture
and	O
supercomputers	B-Architecture
in	O
a	O
box	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
the	O
closest	O
thing	O
to	O
a	O
formal	O
definition	O
of	O
a	O
personal	B-Device
supercomputer	I-Device
as	O
most	O
Computers	O
marketed	O
as	O
personal	B-Device
supercomputers	I-Device
are	O
Deskside	O
clusters	O
like	O
the	O
Cray	B-Device
CX1	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
chassis	O
can	O
hold	O
a	O
relatively	O
small	O
number	O
of	O
computers	O
that	O
are	O
on	O
blades	O
,	O
trays	O
,	O
or	O
in	O
enclosures	O
that	O
slide	O
into	O
the	O
chassis	O
and	O
bundle	O
everything	O
together.	O
”	O
The	O
Blade	O
or	O
node	O
are	O
equipped	O
with	O
CPU/s	O
and	O
RAM	B-Architecture
also	O
it	O
may	O
be	O
equipped	O
with	O
GPU/s	O
so	O
that	O
it	O
may	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
CAD	B-Application
or	O
for	O
computation	O
and	O
the	O
blade	O
may	O
have	O
bays	O
for	O
hard	O
drives	O
built	O
in	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
medical	O
applications	O
for	O
processing	O
brain	O
and	O
body	O
scans	B-Application
,	O
resulting	O
in	O
faster	O
diagnosis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
they	O
are	O
used	O
in	O
AI	B-Application
for	O
deep	B-Algorithm
learning	I-Algorithm
and	O
machine	O
learning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
more	O
use	O
is	O
in	O
the	O
field	O
of	O
data	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
which	O
requires	O
large	O
amounts	O
of	O
computational	O
power	O
.	O
</s>
