As an editor, I wonder how they can use this horsepower for editing and special effects work.

Thanks to gamers, the desktop supercomputer arrives (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120741&source=rss_news)

Interesting piece of iron. The limitation will be in the software. The question is how many cores/processes can (insert the name of your favorite nle/3d/compositing software here) use at one time.

I suspect that most of the good ones will be able to use more than four, but probably not as many as that box has.

This years blinding edge technology is next years cheap option