Terra Soft Carries the Torch for Cell and Power Platforms
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| Since launching Yellow Dog Linux for the PLAYSTATION3 (PS3) last year, Terra
| Soft has been busy expanding its presence in the Cell processor ecosystem.
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http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1761435.html
AMD does alright, but Intel has just upped it expectations.
AMD vs. Intel: Barcelona’s Slight Energy Advantage
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| An AMD spokesperson claims that the 75-Watt 2 GHz Barcelona processor, when
| compared to Intel’s 2.3 GHz Xeon processor, is on average 26 percent faster
| across a variety of server workloads, while managing to draw less power and
| require less cooling than Intel. In one given server workload test, AMD’s new
| processor proved to be “65 to 70 percent faster” while using “five less
| watts, on average,” of energy compared to Intel’s Xeon processor.
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http://earth2tech.com/2007/09/10/amd-vs-intel-barcelonas-slight-energy-advantage/
Related:
Open Source Programmers, Developers to Hold First Power Powwow
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| Staats will present one of several dozen technical conferences. He will
| discuss clustering PS3s. Terra Soft Solutions has constructed a growing Cell
| cluster from PlayStation 3 appliances. This lightweight, low-cost cluster
| solution offers a balance of limitations and performance using Yellow Dog
| Linux and Y-HPC.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59243.html
PS3 Real-time Ray-tracing
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| IBM Interactive Ray-tracer (iRT) using three Sony Playstation3s (PS3)
| to render a model that is 75x more complex then those used in
| today's games.
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http://www.n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-33982.aspx
What Are You Going To Do With Your FLOPS?
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| It is now possible to buy a system capable of 15 Giga Floating Point
| Operations Per Second (GFLOPS) for about $750. That works out to $50/GFLOPS.
| If you are doubting this number, price out a minimal Intel Core 2 Duo (E6550)
| system with 1GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive, DVD, and load Linux on it.
| Then run the HPL benchmark using the Goto libraries. You should see at least
| 15 GFLOPS for your investment, an astounding amount of power for so little
| cash.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/launchpad/business-class-hpc/main/4088
Analysts predict 80gb PS3 pricedrop
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| Sony dropped the price of the 60GB PlayStation 3 to $499 in the hope that it
| would get rid of what it had in its store room. The 60 GB machine has since
| been axed.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42162
Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well
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| There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix
| of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is
| always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be
| fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071007-story02.html
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