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
I suspect these are Linux-based, relying on previous reports, e.g.:
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 systems
| run 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
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