Terra Soft to Build World's First Cell-Based Supercomputer
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| Both clusters will run the new Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 operating system; a
| beta version of Y-HPC v2.0, the first commercial, cross-architecture
| Linux cluster construction suite; the Moab cluster management suite by
| Cluster Resources; and Y-Bio v1.1, a suite of gene sequence analysis
| tools soon to be optimized for the Cell processor.
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http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/967146.html
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IBM begins selling Cell blades
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| Unlike IBM blades with Big Blue's Power processors, Intel's Xeon or
| Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, the Cell blades can't be intermixed
| with other varieties in the same BladeCenter chassis. The systemsr
| un Red Hat's Fedora Core 5 version of Linux.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6115225.html?part=rss&tag=6115225&subj=news
IBM cells out, allegedly
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| Biggish blue has officially released its first computing system based
| around the Cell Broadband Engine, or Cell BE.
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| One of the beta users at the University of Manchester said it gave the
| outfit improved performance, took up less space, and consumed less power.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34831
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