NVIDIA Tesla C1060 - any benefit for CS6?

Hello all
I'm posting this to the CS forum because I might get a more comprehensive answer - or not.
We have a couple of custom made workstations that have NVIDIA Tesla C1060 headless GPU processing cards in them. The company has decided not use the software that these machines were build to run, leaving some very nice processing hardware (the cards) to basically spin away the time doing nothing. I was thinking of pulling one of these things out and plugging it into my Photoshop workstation (win7 64, 24gb ram, CS Design Premium and Lightroom). If I did this and just fired the machine up could I expect any performance improvements from my Adobe apps? Anything AFA tweaks or things in the future makes a move like this worth it?
I read alot about NVIDIA GPU processing for Premiere Pro and After Effects, would this hardware help those programs out (I have those @home)? Seems a waste to have these things essentially doing nothing...
Thanks

Nope. That card is not supported in any Adobe program. Other than adding a tiny slice of processing power on a more generalised CUDA/ OpenCL level in Photoshop or Premiere Pro (with the tradeoff being that it may disable the more specialized Mercury Playback Engine in PPro and assuming there are no driver issues) I don't see it doing anything for you. Would probably make more sense if the company just gave them to some university computer science lab so students can experiment with CUDA and that...
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