____/ Jerry McBride on Tuesday 10 June 2008 02:01 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Military Supercomputer Sets Record
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>> | The Roadrunner is based on a radical design that includes 12,960 chips
>> | that are an improved version of an I.B.M. Cell microprocessor, a
>> | parallel processing chip originally created for Sony?s PlayStation 3
>> | video-game machine. The Sony chips are used as accelerators, or
>> | turbochargers, for portions of calculations.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/technology/09petaflops.html?_r=1&ref=technology&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
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>> The Cells typically run Fedora, IIRC.
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>> 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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>> 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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> Awesome news about te Cell. I wonder when the Cell will be available for
> desktop usage? I long for the day when I could have a quad core Cell and
> Linux on my desk.
Maybe that's good for video editing/rendering. There's not much that requires
so much power and can't be shifted to a server (controlled from the
desktop/terminal). For gaming there's the PS3.
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